Area Database (archived) version archive

Publication date Data file Label file Documentation
Version 2.7.0 27 February 2017 GDL-AreaData270.csv GDL-AreaData270-Variabledescription.csv Smits GDL Working Paper 16-101 v270.pdf
106 indicators Layout website improved
Indicators now also available separately for wealth quartiles
Data added for Belize, Chili, Eritrea, Malaysia, Panama, Venezuela
116 countries
1124 sub-national regions
Version 2.6.0 14 February 2017 GDL-AreaData260.csv GDL-AreaData260-Variabledescription.csv Smits GDL Working Paper 16-101 v260.pdf
106 indicators Data added for Albania, Bangladesh, Equatorial Guinea, Jamaica, Libya, Senegal, Tanzania, Uruguay, Zimbabwe
Educational attendance now also for boys and girls separately
Countries now ordered by continent
115 countries
1100 sub-national regions
Version 2.5.0 1 November 2016 GDL-AreaData250.csv GDL-AreaData250-Variabledescription.csv Smits GDL Working Paper 16-101 v250.pdf
96 indicators Indicator 'internet access' added to the category 'Assets'.
Data was added for Chad2015, Lesotho2014 and Rwanda2015
113 countries
1087 sub-national regions
Version 2.4.0 9 October 2016 GDL-AreaData240.csv GDL-AreaData240-Variabledescription.csv Smits GDL Working Paper 16-101 v240.pdf
95 indicators Web interface improved. All indicators in a category can now be compared with each other at one point in time.
Age-specific fertility rates added to 'Fertility' category.
Separate categories for child underweight and overweight created.
113 countries
1087 sub-national regions
Version 2.3.0 22 September 2016 GDL-AreaData230.csv GDL-AreaData230-Variabledescription.csv Smits GDL Working Paper 16-101 v230.pdf
87 indicators Indicators now also available for poor and nonpoor households separately.
Added indicators washing machine and computer to category 'Assets'.
Added data for Lebanon, Libya, Kuwait and Myanmar.
113 countries
1087 sub-national regions
Version 2.2.0 7 September 2016 GDL-AreaData220.csv GDL-AreaData220-Variabledescription.csv Smits GDL Working Paper 16-101 v220.pdf
85 indicators Added new data for Botswana, Ecuador, El Salvador.
Educational attendance for India 2012 improved.
109 countries
1060 sub-national regions
Version 2.1.0 28 August 2016 GDL-AreaData210.csv GDL-AreaData210-Variabledescription.csv Smits GDL Working Paper 16-101 v210.pdf
85 indicators Added indicators:
- Patrilocality Index of region
- Percentage patrilocal and matrilocal households in region
- Phase of Demographic Window of Opportunity of the region
Added new data for India, Iraq, Thailand, Suriname, Djibouti, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica
Missing women indicator changed into Percentage of women in 50+ population
107 countries
1053 sub-national regions
Version 2.0.0 29 June 2016 GDL-AreaData200-DANS.csv GDL-AreaData200-Variabledescription.csv Smits GDL Working Paper 16-101a.pdf
81 indicators Added gender indicators:
- Mean age difference between partners (husband-wife) in region
- Mean age at first marriage of women aged 20-50 in region
- Mean age at first birth of women aged 20-50 in region
- Missing women: Percentage of women in 40+ population
Added new data for Algeria, Malaysia, Paraguay and South Sudan
104 countries
1036 sub-national regions This version has been archived with Dans-Easy with permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.17026/dans-xwk-by5a.
Version 1.9.0 22 May 2016 n/a n/a n/a
77 indicators Educational level of total population and for men and women now available separately for age groups 20+, 20-39, 40-59, and 60+. Data for Venezuela 2001 and Uruguay 2013 has been added.
103 countries
1024 sub-national regions
Version 1.7.0 2 April 2016 n/a n/a n/a
68 indicators Indicators added: Percentages of children stunting, moderately stunting, severely stunting, wasting, moderately wasting, severely wasting, weight for age z-score, underweight, moderately underweight, severely underweight, BMI-for-age z-score, overweight, obese (+15). Added Afrobarometer data for Botswana 2012-2014, Cape Verde 2012-2014 and Mauritius 2012-2014 and PAPFAM data for Algeria 2002.
98 countries
896 sub-national regions