Database for Development Economics Research:
Indonesia

Marco data:
1. Statistics Indonesia: The national statistics office of Indonesia. Aggregate data on social and population, economic and trade, and agriculture and mining are available. Subgroups under the social and population category are climate, consumption and expenditure, education, employment, environmental, gender, geography, government, health, housing, human development indices, population, poverty and inequality, social & culture, social resilience, and village potential. Subgroups under the economic and trade category are business & consumer tendency index, communication, construction, consumer prices indices, domestic trade, energy, farmer terms of trade, flow of funds, foreign trade, gross domestic product (expenditure), gross domestic product (industrial origin), gross regional domestic products (expenditure), gross regional domestic products (industrial origin), input output, labour wages, large and medium manufacturing, micro and small manufacturing, producer price indices, public finance, retail, small-scale & micro establishment, social accounting matrix, tourism, transportation, and wholesale price indices. Subgroups under the agriculture and mining category are animal husbandry, fishery, food crops, forestry, horticulture, mining, and plantation.
Micro data:

Statistics Indonesia: This subpage of the Statistics Indonesia website allows users to purchase microdata, electronic publication, hardcopy publication, and digital map of statistical work area. Available for purchase are population census, national labor force survey, national socio-economic survey, village potential data collection, intercensal population survey, environmental care behavior survey, commuter survey, survei penilaian tingkat kebahagiaan, economic census, census of agriculture, export statistical data compilation, import statistical data compilation, survey of large and medium manufacturing industry, inter-census agriculture survey, micro and small industries survey, and korespondensi KBLI-HS-ISIC.
Type: Household & firm data, Access: Purchasable, Cost: Displayed on the website
UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) Survey: MICS is a survey with focus on the wellbeing of women and children but also includes development variables. The data include household characteristics, housing characteristics and living environment (drinking water, sanitation facilities), access to electricity and internet, assets (TV, radio, telephone, computer), reproductive and maternal health (adolescent birth, miscarriage, contraception, HIV, etc.), child health, nutrition, and development (breastfeeding, immunization, diet, literacy, etc.), household violence and exploitation, and social transfers. For Indonesia, data from MICS1 (1996), MICS2 (2000), and MICS4 (2011) are available.
Type: Household data, Access: Application required, Cost: Free
Indonesian Family Life Surveys (IFLS): Ongoing panel household surveys on over 30,000 individuals living in 13 of the 27 provinces. The surveys were conducted by RAND in cooperation with other organizations. Thus far, 5 waves (1993/94, 1997 and 1998, 2000, 2007/2008, 2014-15) have been conducted. The surveys contain information on household expenditures and knowledge of health facilities, household economy, adult information (educational, marital, work, long-run migration histories, and health), ever-married woman information (retrospective life histories on marriage, children ever born, pregnancy outcomes and health-related behavior during pregnancy and childbirth, infant feeding practice, and contraceptive use), child information (educational history, morbidities, self-treatment, inpatient and outpatient visits, and nonresident parents), etc.
Type: Household data, Access: Registration required, Cost: Free
The World Bank Microdata Library: The World Bank website has many interesting datasets including surveys used for impact evaluation of programs. Many of them can be downloaded without registration.
- Early Childhood Education and Development (ECED) Impact Evaluation by the World Bank: The project evaluates a community-based early education and development program aiming to increase access to early childhood services and improve school readiness among 738,000 children aged 0 to 6 living in approximately 6,000 poor communities. The program was developed jointly by the Department of Non-Formal Education Ministry of National Education and the World Bank. Surveys are administered to children/students, caregivers, heads of villages, health providers, and education service providers. Data based on four rounds (2009, 2010, 2013, and 2016) are available.
  Type: Household data, Access: License required, Cost: Free
- World Bank Global Findex Database: Datasets with focus on financial access and financial service usage. In 2017, almost 150,000 people were surveyed (approximately 1,000 from each of 144 countries). Data include individual’s characteristics and financial behavior (ownership and/or usage) on credit card, debit card, borrowing account, deposit account, mobile and online financial services, and payments and remittances. For Indonesia, data from 2011, 2014, and 2017 are available.
  Type: Household data, Access: Application required (2011, 2014, and 2017), Cost: Free
- World Bank COVID-19 High Frequency Phone Survey of Households: The 5-round survey was conducted to track the impacts of COVID-19. 5 rounds of survey were conducted every 1-2 months. The survey focuses on topics such as food security, changes in employment, income loss, access to safety nets, and household coping strategies. For the data webpage, please follow this link.
  Type: Household data, Access: Application required, Cost: Free
- World Bank Enterprise Surveys: Enterprise Surveys launched by the World Bank offer an expansive array of economic data on 171,000 firms in 149 countries. The surveys collect information about a country's business environment, how it is experienced by individual firms, how it changes over time, and the various constraints to firm performance and growth. The full data sets are available at the firm level. For Indonesia, data from the Enterprise Survey (2009, 2015) and Investment Climate Survey (2003) are available.
  Type: Firm data, Access: Application required, Cost: Free
- Survei Sosial Ekonomi Rumah Tangga (Household Socio-Economic Survey): The aim of the survey is to understand household expenditures, consumption, and various characteristics and to measure the effectiveness of various governmental anti-poverty programs which are the Direct Cash Aid (BLT), the Conditional Cash Aid (BTB) and the Health Insurance (Askeskin) programs.
  Type: Household-level, Access: Downloadable without registration, Cost: Free
- National Violence Monitoring System: The database is information on violent incidents/acts collected from various sources from the village level to the provincial level since 1997. The data are taken from more than 115 local newspapers (provincial and district-level newspapers).
  Type: Incident-level, Access: Downloadable without registration, Cost: Free
- Survey for Financial Assistance of Pemakmue Gampong (BKPG) 2014: BKPG is a program that aims at poverty reduction and strengthening the capacity of village governments in Aceh. The aim of the survey is to assessing program utilization, effectiveness, and the perceptions of Acehnese villagers of the program.
  Type: Household-level, Access: Downloadable without registration, Cost: Free
- Survei Kelembagaan Lokal 2012: The purpose of the survey is to study the community's ability to solve problems together. Data were collected from 3 provinces i.e. Jambi, Central Java, and East Nusa Tenggara.
  Type: Household-level, Access: Downloadable without registration, Cost: Free
- Survei Rumah Tangga Pedesaan (Rural Household Survey Activity): PEKKA (Perempuan Kepala Keluarga) focuses on poverty alleviation of poor widows in conflict areas in Indonesia. The aim of this survey is to measure the impacts of the program on economic, social and political empowerment of poor women.
  Type: Household-level, Access: Downloadable without registration, Cost: Free
  1. Survei Rumah Tangga Perdesaan 2011
  2. Survei Rumah Tangga Pedesaan 2014
- Pendataan Potensi Desa / Kelurahan – Infrastruktur 2011 (Village Potential Survey - Infrastructure 2011): The Village Potential Survey - Infrastructure was carried out to collect data on the quality of public health and education infrastructure in the village. The health facilities in question are Puskesmas, Pustu, Poskesdes, Polindes, and Posyandu. The educational facilities in question are all public elementary schools/equivalent, junior high school/equivalent, and high school/equivalent.
  Type: District-level, Access: Downloadable without registration, Cost: Free
- Survei Sumber Daya dan Infrastruktur Desa (Village Resource and Rural Infrastructure Study): Survey VRRI aims to understand the ability and willingness of villagers in poor villages to provide the resources to maintain the infrastructure of the village.
  Type: Household-level, Access: Downloadable without registration, Cost: Free
- Survai Evaluasi Dampak PNPM/PPK (Evaluation Survey of PNPM/PPK Impact) 2010: The purpose of the survey is to measure impact and effectiveness of Program Nasional Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (PNPM) and Program Pengembangan Kecamatan (PPK). The main objectives of these programs are poverty alleviation, employment, social capital, and access to services.
  Type: Household-level, Access: Downloadable without registration, Cost: Free
- Mediasi dan Penguatan Hukum Masyarakat 2009, Baseline: The goal of the survey is to measure the effectiveness of the preliminary phase of the Mediation and Community Legal Empowerment (MCLE) Program, whose aim is to increase rural communities' access to legal justice. The program was initially piloted in the provinces of Aceh and Malaku, consisting of 11 districts, 57 sub-districts, and 306 villages.
  Type: Household-level, Access: Downloadable without registration, Cost: Free
The RIGA Database: The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) compiles data on rural and urban income-generating activities from various organizations (e.g. national statistics offices, World Bank, RAND). There are two main types of datasets i.e. household-level income aggregate (RIGA-H) and individual wage employment dataset (RIGA-L). For Indonesia, data from 1993 (RIGA-H) and 2000 (RIGA-H and RIGA-L) are available.
Type: Household data, Access: Application required, Cost: Free
Household Data on Microcredit Study in Indonesia by IDE-JETRO: Data collected in 2007-08 for the research project “Role of Small-Scale Finance in Rural Development: Rural Finance and Microfinance” at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO).
Type: Household data, Access: Downloadable without registration, Cost: Free
Population Census of Indonesia, 1971: 0.38% Sample File (3.8% for Jakarta and Jogjakarta): The dataset is a subset of the 1971 census. Data include birth, age, sex, relationship to the dead of the household, marital status, ethnicity, religion, language spoken, literacy, educational attainment, migration, number of children born, and employment history and present status.
Type: Household-level, Access: Downloadable without registration, Cost: Free
Replication Data for “Reevaluating Agricultural Productivity Gaps with Longitudinal Microdata”: The study uses individual-level panel data from Indonesia and Kenya to study the gaps in labor productivity between the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. In the case of Indonesia, the data used are from the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) between 1993 and 2008. Data include earnings, sector (agricultural/non-agricultural), working hours, sex, age, and education.
Type: Individual-level, Access: Application required, Cost: Free
Replication data for “Democracy and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Indonesia”: The study exploits quasi-random variation in the timing of district-level political regime changes induced by the collapse of President Soeharto’s government to study the drivers of the democracy-growth relationship. The data include the timing of the first democratically-elected mayor, measures of productivity, quality of business regulations, indicator for local governance, and etc.
Type: Firm-level, Access: Downloadable without registration, Cost: Free
J-PAL Dataverse: J-PAL researchers conduct a couple of interesting research in Indonesia and the website provides replication datasets for the research.
- Self-Targeting: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia by Alatas, Banerjee, Hanna, Olken, Purnamasari, Wai-Poi (2017)
  Access: Application required, Cost: Free
- Targeting the Poor: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia by Alatas, Banerjee, Hanna, Olken, and Tobias (2013)
  Access: Application required, Cost: Free
- Project Generasi: Conditional Community Block Grants in Indonesia by Olken, Onishi, and Wong (2014)
  Access: Downloadable without registration, Cost: Free
- Monitoring Corruption: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia by Olken (2009)
  Access: Application required, Cost: Free Link:

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Database for Development Economics Research:Indonesia

Database for Development Economics Research:
Indonesia