Global Development & Inclusion Panel
Purpose
To create a clean, analysis-ready country-year dataset linking economic growth, poverty, education, employment, health, and digital access across countries and regions.
Source Datasets & Licences
Primary source: World Bank Open Data and selected World Bank development indicators.
World Bank datasets are generally available under CC BY 4.0, subject to applicable additional terms. The final dataset will include a source register, retrieval dates, indicator codes, transformations, and prescribed citation.
What You Will Learn
- Retrieving public indicators from official data portals
- Cleaning and standardising country-year data
- Harmonising country codes and indicator names
- Managing missing data and documentation
- Building reproducible data-preparation workflows
- Creating codebooks and provenance records
Expected Tasks
Participants may be assigned to:
- Extract assigned indicators
- Review indicator definitions and metadata
- Standardise country names and codes
- Check duplicate records and missing values
- Support merging and validation
- Prepare variable labels and documentation
- Conduct final quality-assurance checks
Timeline & Weekly Commitment
- Week 1: Orientation, source review, task allocation, and data extraction
- Week 2: Cleaning, standardisation, and harmonisation
- Week 3: Merging, validation, and documentation
- Week 4: Quality review, final dataset preparation, and presentation
Expected commitment: 4–6 hours per week.
Fee & What It Covers
Your $20 participation fee covers project coordination, guided orientation, task allocation, data resources, quality review, documentation templates, contributor management, and a certificate for qualifying participants.
Contributor Recognition Requirements
To qualify for a verified DataLab Contributor Profile and project recognition, you must:
- Attend orientation or review the full onboarding materials
- Complete assigned tasks by agreed deadlines
- Submit work that meets DataLab quality standards
- Respond to reasonable review and correction requests
- Follow project rules and source-data conditions
Project Rules & Consent
This project uses public-source data. Participants must follow all applicable source licences, cite original sources, and not misrepresent DataLab work as their individual work. Payment grants participation access; contributor recognition is earned through completed and approved work.