Market Data and Tools

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Technical Note: Multi-Country Data Sources for Access to Finance
This paper reviews various data sources that have a bearing on microfinance, or access to finance more broadly, and discusses their relevance. The following are data sources that are included in the paper.

Household Data Sources

• The Living Standards Measurement Study [The World Bank]
• Finscope [FinMark Trust]
• Program for the Improvement of Surveys and the Measurement of Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean (MECOVI)
• Financial Diaries—South Africa

Enterprise and General Opinion Data Sources

• Investment Climate [The World Bank/International Finance Corporation]
• Eurobarometer
• Afrobarometer
• Latinobarometro
• World Values Survey
• Gallup World Poll

Financial Intermediary Data Sources

• Country Studies [Asian Development Bank]
• Microfinance Microscope [Inter-American Development Bank]
• BankScope
• Bank Services for Everyone [The World Bank]
• Postal Networks
• Banking the Poor [The World Bank]
• Statistical report on credit unions and financial cooperatives [WOCCU]
• State of Microfinance in Eastern Europe and Central Asia [The Microfinance Center for Central & Eastern Europe and the New Independent States]
• Remittance Prices Worldwide [The World Bank]
• Send Money Home [DfID]

Regulatory/Policy Data Sources

• Doing Business [IFC]
•  Bank Regulation and Supervision Database [The World Bank] [The World Bank]
• CPSS/BIS payments system information [CPSS/BIS]
• The World Bank Payments Systems and Remittances Web Site

Funder Data Sources

• OECD Development Assistance Committee
• FIRST Initiative
• Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations [PLAID]

Surveys of data sources

• Financial Sector Development Indicators [The World Bank]
• Financial Statistics [OECD]