**Table 3: Publicly accessible microdata sets on website of MENA NSOs**

|**Economy/data category**|**Establishment**<br>**survey**|**Price survey**|**Consumption**<br>**survey**|**Labor force**<br>**survey**|**Health**<br>**survey**|**Population**<br>**census**|**Economic**<br>**census**|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|Algeria|-|No openness|-|-|-|-|No openness|
|Bahrain|-|No openness|No openness|-|No openness|No openness|-|
|Djibouti|-|No openness|Satisfactory|-|-|No openness|-|
|Egypt, Arab Rep.|-|No openness|Satisfactory|No openness|No openness|No openness|Satisfactory|
|Iran, Islamic Rep.|-|No openness|Satisfactory|Satisfactory|-|Satisfactory|-|
|Iraq|-|No openness|No openness|-|No openness|No openness|-|
|Jordan|-|No openness|No openness|No openness|No openness|No openness|No openness|
|Kuwait|No openness|No openness|No openness|No openness|-|-|-|
|Lebanon|-|No openness|-|Excellent|-|-|-|
|Libya|-|No openness|-|-|No openness|No openness|-|
|Malta|No openness|No openness|No openness|No openness|-|No openness|-|
|Morocco|No openness|No openness|Excellent|No openness|-|Excellent|-|
|Oman|-|No openness|-|No openness|No openness|No openness|-|
|Qatar|-|No openness|-|-|-|No openness|No openness|
|Saudi Arabia|No openness|No openness|No openness|No openness|No openness|No openness|No openness|
|Syrian Arab Republic|-|No openness|-|-|-|-|No openness|
|Tunisia|-|No openness|Excellent|Excellent|No openness|No openness|No openness|
|United Arab Emirates|-|No openness|No openness|-|-|-|-|
|West Bank and Gaza|Satisfactory|No openness|Satisfactory|Satisfactory|No openness|Satisfactory|Satisfactory|
|Yemen,Rep.|-|-|No openness|-|-|No openness|No openness|
|Total economies with some<br>degree<br>of<br>accessibility<br>of|1/20|0/20|6/20|4/20|0/20|3/20|2/20|
|microdata for data category<br>Total surveys/ census with some<br>degree<br>of<br>accessibility<br>of<br>microdata on NSOs website.||||16/140||||

Note: - indicates up to date microdata have not been collected.

# 3.6 Accessibility of Microdata Internationally

We have not (yet) considered non-NSO websites and/or repositories from which a country’s data could be available. We excluded these on purpose in table 3 as data users –most of whom would be nationals, should be able to access data for their country from their national NSO (or other national agencies: health surveys, for instance, are at times collected and published by Ministries of Health). Yet there are instances where microdata sets are available in international repositories, even while they are unavailable locally. For example, the National Statistics Office of Malta makes microdata from some surveys available to Eurostat who then makes it available to data users upon successful registration and application for the data – these data may not be available on the website of Malta’s National Statistical Office.<sup>17</sup> To complete the picture of microdata accessibility for each country, we explore what is available in international microdata libraries. We do so by visiting the WB microdata library, the web-portals of the MICS and DHS surveys as well as the microdata libraries maintained by the International Household Survey Network (IHSN), IPUMS and Eurostat.<sup>18</sup> The results from this exercise are summarized in table 4.

> 17 For example, Malta National Statistics Office sends microdata from its <mark>European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions Survey (EU-SILC), Household Budgetary Survey as well as Labor Cost Survey – Enterprise survey- to Eurostat where it can be requested by data users.</mark>

> 18 See annex table A2 for the links to these microdata libraries.

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