General Economics & Indian Economy - GS questions based on daily current affairs for Q. 25207
Q. Micro data Management Toolkit for International Household Survey Network (IHSN) has been developed by
1) OECD
2) ADB
3) PARIS21- Published on 28 Oct 16a. 2, 3
b. 1, 3
c. 1, 2
d. All of the above
ANSWER: All of the above
- The Micro data Management Toolkit developed by the World Bank Data, Asian Development Bank, ADP (Accelerated Data Program), OECD (Organisation of Economic Corporation and Development & PARIS21 for the International Household Survey Network (IHSN), is open source data, DDI (Data Documentation Initiative) compliant application for cataloguing and dissemination of Metadata & Microdata.
- The International Household Survey Network (IHSN) is designed to address the technical issues facing data producers.
- The Survey and Census micro data are valuable resources for government departments and academic researchers.
- It has been experienced that IHSN tool is quite useful for creation of documentation, dissemination and archive as well as survey data can be transformed into an international format.
- It would attract more users, researchers, increase the revenue towards data dissemination and reduce the data duplication, increasing return on investment etc.