International Institute of Social Studies

Resources  

Indices of Social Development data sources

• Afrobarometer
• Asian Barometer
• Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project
• Civicus
• Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive 
• Demographic and Health Surveys
• Economist Intelligence Unit
• European Social Survey
• Fund For Peace
• John Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project
• International Country Risk Guide
• International Crime Victims Survey
• International Labour Organisation
• International Social Survey
• International Telecommunication Union
• Latinobarometer
• London School of Economics Annual Civil Society Yearbook
• Minorities at Risk
• OECD Factbook
• UNESCO
• Word Development Indicators
• World Values Survey

Background papers and information

• Indices of Social Development 1 page infosheet [PDF]
• Indices of Social Development Handbook [PDF 0.5Mb]
• Methodology of the Social Development Indices [PDF 3.3Mb]
• Applications of the Social Development Indices  [PDF 0.5Mb]
• Indices of Social Development Presentation [PDF 1.7Mb]
• Inclusion of Minorities [PDF 0.5 Mb]

ISD Working paper series

• ISD Working Paper 2011-01: Social Institutions as a Form of Intangible Capital [PDF 0.3Mb]
• ISD Working Paper 2011-02: To Measure is to Know? A Comparative Analysis of Gender Indices [PDF 0.3Mb]
• ISD Working Paper 2011-03: The last mile in analysing well-being and poverty: Indices of Social Development [PDF 0.3Mb]
• ISD Working Paper 2012-01: Granger inspired testing the ISDs for Possible Causal Relationships [PDF 0.3Mb]
• ISD Working Paper 2012-02_The Role of Social Institutions in Determining Aid Effectiveness [PDF 1.2Mb]
• ISD Working Paper 2012-03_Social Development and Happiness in Nations [PDF 1Mb]
• ISD Working Paper 2012-04_Methodology of the Indices of Social Development [PDF 1.7Mb]

Conference presentations

14 December 2011:

• Arjan de Haan and Irene van Staveren: ISD Taking Stock
• Ellen Webbink: Inclusion of Minorities Index
• John Cameron and Yih Lerh Huang: Granger inspired testing the ISD's for possible causal relationships
• Eelke de Jong and Jeroen Smits: Social Development and sub-national growth in developing countries
• John Cameron and Yih Lerh Huang: Tracking Structural Development Processes through the Inter-group Cohesion Index
• Arjan de Haan: Inclusive Growth and the Indices of Social Development
• Ruut Veenhoven: Social Development and Happiness in nations: 1990-2010 (PPT), paper (PDF)

15 December 2011:

• Roberto Foa: The Role of Social Institutions in Determining Aid Effectiveness (link to Prezi.com)
• Irene van Staveren and Ellen Webbink: Aid, Civil Society and Development
• Frank-Borge Wietzke: Jobs and wellbeing: Individual and country level evidence
• Kea Tijdens: Can Indices of Social Development explain the wage rankings, wage dispersions, and standardized wage levels of 16 health workforce occupational groups across 20 countries? 
• Key note speech by Stephan Klasen: Measuring Gender Inequality and Inequality in Social Development

Other research using the Indices

• Global Trends in Labour Market Inequalities, Exclusion, Insecurity and Civic Activism (Background paper for the Democratic Governance Report
  by UNDP, 2012, by Irene van Staveren and Rolph van der Hoeven)
• New Dimensions of Peace –Society, Economy, and the Media (Institute for Economics and Peace, Discussion paper 2011).
• Structures of Peace (Institute for Economics and Peace, October 2011)
• Social Capital and Cross-Country Environmental Performance (by Hari Bansha Dulal, Roberto Foa and Stephen Knowles).

 Useful links

• DANS
• Database Developing World
• Developmentdata.org
• EHERO (World Database of Happiness)
• Gapminder
• Global Peace Index
• Human Development Reports
• OECD Statistics
• Sendasal (Gender and Inequality in Latin America)
• Social and Economic Rights Fulfilment Index (SERF Index)
• Unicef Country Statistics
• UNdata
• WageIndicator.org