Source datasets for studies, theses and public-interest research.
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62 billion deduplicated tokens of licensed text in 22 Indian languages and Indian English, with source, licence, domain and quality tags on every document.
GDP, inflation, policy rates, exchange rates, trade balances, credit and mobile-money volumes for 54 African countries, harmonized and rebased, with release-date vintages.
Hourly pollutant concentrations and air quality indices on a 1 km European grid plus 3,000 station series, with four-day forecasts and history from 2015.
Questionnaire design, translation, scripting and fieldwork in 14 African countries by online panel, mobile web and phone interviews, delivered as weighted data and tables.
Monthly omnibus survey results from mobile and online panels in six African markets covering spending, payments, connectivity and brand use, weighted and aggregated.
Academic research needs datasets that are well documented, citable and licensed for study and publication. Researchers use data marketplaces to find sources that are hard to collect alone and to compare commercial options with public ones.
Economic indicators provide time series on output, prices, employment and trade, often from official statistical agencies. Census data supplies population and household statistics at fine geographic levels, the backbone of much social science. Survey data from academic and commercial panels captures attitudes and behaviour that official statistics do not measure.
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Last reviewed on 11 Nov 2026
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