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Global Labor Database User Manual: A Guide to Understanding, Using, and Interacting with the Global Labor Database

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dc.contributor.authorWorld Bank
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-29T15:40:53Z
dc.date.available2024-05-29T15:40:53Z
dc.date.issued2024-05-29
dc.description.abstractThe Global Labor Database (GLD) is part of the World Bank initiatives to harmonize labor force surveys and household surveys with a relevant labor module. Its mission is to create an open and transparent harmonization with sufficient background information to allow data analysts to use, alter, and expand the harmonization. In this sense, background information goes beyond code, questionnaires, and reports, and includes documenting survey details learned during harmonization which are not recorded elsewhere. An example of this documenting changes to the currency or the administrative divisions. The GLD aims to be an open-source database, meaning that as much information should be accessible to as many people as possible. It also strives to be transparent, making all steps that create the harmonization traceable, from raw data acquisition to harmonized variable coding. Hence, all steps of the harmonization process are documented and made available, including the survey documentation, code and notes that allow users to fully comprehend the survey design and the choices made in the harmonization. The availability of the codes and documentation enables users to customize and add variables not in the GLD harmonization. Most harmonization efforts provide users with a take it or leave it option, but the GLD's open and transparent approach allows users to trace and deviate from the standard harmonization at any point, giving them a head start regardless of where they wish to jump in. Finally, the GLD follows up and expands on the previous initiative to harmonized household surveys, the International Income Distribution Database (I2D2). The I2D2 was superseded by the Global Monitoring Database (GMD), which however focused on household budget surveys and did not harmonize labor force surveys. The GLD was created to remedy this gap in the survey type coverage and complement it, with a stronger focus on labor market information through an expanded dictionary and more rigorous validation of labor indicators.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099052124182083406/P1737101ad486605f193d91c0dda3fa9842
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/41613
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/41613
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
dc.subjectGLD
dc.subjectSURVEY
dc.subjectOPEN-SOURCE
dc.subjectTRANSPARENCY
dc.subjectLABOR INDICATORS
dc.titleGlobal Labor Database User Manualen
dc.title.subtitleA Guide to Understanding, Using, and Interacting with the Global Labor Databaseen
dc.typeManual
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okr.crossref.titleGlobal Labor Database User Manual: A Guide to Understanding, Using, and Interacting with the Global Labor Database
okr.date.disclosure2024-05-29
okr.date.lastmodified2024-05-28T00:00:00Zen
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okr.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1596/41613
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okr.identifier.report190519
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okr.region.geographicalWorld
okr.sectorSocial Protection
okr.themeLabor Market Institutions,Job Creation,Gender,Human Development and Gender,Data Development and Capacity Building,Disease Control,Private Sector Development,Pandemic Response,Labor Market Policy and Programs,Public Sector Management,Active Labor Market Programs,Job Quality,Jobs,Data production, accessibility and use
okr.topicIndustry::Industrial and Market Data and Reporting
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topicInformation and Communication Technologies::ICT Data and Statistics
okr.unitJOBS- CCSA - IBRD (HSPJB)
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