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Tanzania: Monitoring Service Delivery
Listening to Dar has a website that allows one to download baseline survey data representative for Dar es Salaam (2010) data. Remarkable about the site is that EVERY TWO WEEKS another data set is added, collected using mobile phones. Data covers a wide range of issues including access to electricity, health, water, nutrition, teacher absenteeism, travel times etc.. Listening to Dar also does regular opinion polling.
You can find them at: http://www.listeningtodar.org
IFPRI offers its data online
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has made many of its data sets available online. This site is definitely worth visiting if your are looking for data.
Uganda: learning assessment by Uwezo (2010)
Uwezo has carried out a learning assessment in 27 districts, covering over 16,000 households and testing more than 34,000 children between the ages of 6 and 16. Data from this survey can be found by clicking below. Uwezo data for Kenya and Tanzania are also available on openmicrodata.
More information on Uwezo and its approach to learning assessments can be found out: www. uwezo.net
Tanzania: Anti corruption survey (2009)
The PCCB in Tanzania released the report for the 2009 anti corruption survey. OMD does not (yet) have the raw data, but the reports (4 volumes) can be downloaded from here.
Tanzania: Economic Surveys 2004 – 2009
The Economic Survey is the statistical abstract for Tanzania prepared by the Ministry of Finance. It comprises administrative data that is presented to parliament (Bunge) during the budget session. The 2004 Economic Survey is presented to the Bunge Session covering the fiscal year 2005/2006; the 2005 Economic Survey covers fiscal year 2006/7 etc..
The Economic Survey comprises a set of tables covering a diverse area including: National Accounts, GDP, Inflation, Population, agricultural production, exports, imports, tourism, credit, electricity, health, education, railways and postal services.
The tables can be downloaded from here (XLS format).
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