Micro data:
Pakistan Bureau of Statistics: The microdata section of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics website. Data from the Pakistan Social & Living Standards Measurement (PSLM) Survey, Labor Force Survey (LFS), and Pakistan Integrated Household Survey (PIHS) are available.
Type: Household data, Access: Downloadable without registration, Cost: Free
The World Bank Microdata Library: The World Bank website has many interesting datasets including surveys used for impact evaluation of programs.
Pakistan Integrated Household Survey (PIHS) 1991: Conducted jointly with the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) as a part of the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household surveys, the PIHS was conducted as a tool to analyze policy impacts on living standards. The PIHS covers the topics of housing conditions, education, health, employment characteristics, self-employment activities, consumption, migration, fertility, credit and savings, and household energy consumption.
Type: Household and individual-level, Access: Application required, Cost: Free
CGAP Financial Diaries with Smallholder Households 2014-2015: The study was conducted to track all the money flowing into and out of their households from June 2014 to July 2015. The sample of 270 households was drawn from 2 villages in Punjab.
Type: Household and individual-level, Access: Application required, Cost: Free
Replication Files for Upping the Ante: The Equilibrium Effects of Unconditional Grants to Private Schools, 2012-2014: In Pakistan, private school became increasingly popular and private school students tend to outperform state school students. Two types of intervention i.e. grants and microloans were randomly assigned to students in 855 schools in 266 villages in Punjab. Tests in Urdu, English and Mathematics were administered to the students.
Type: Student and school-level, Access: Application required, Cost: Free
Livelihoods, Basic Services, Social Protection and Perceptions of the State in Conflict-affected Situations Household Survey 2012, First Round: The study is a part of a cross-country panel survey in five conflict-affected countries (DRC, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Uganda). In the first round, data on people's livelihoods, their access to and experience of basic services, and their views of governance actors were collected. (Second-round data unavailable on the World Bank Microdata Catalog)
Type: Individual-level (one adult per household), Access: Application required, Cost: Free
Election Intervention Survey 2008, Experimental Evidence on Female Voting Behavior: Because women are less likely to vote and are likely to follow the wishes of male in emerging democracies, this study randomly assigned a voter awareness campaign and assessed the impacts on the outcomes on female turnout, candidate choice, and party vote shares.
Type: Household and individual-level, Access: Application required, Cost: Free