• 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:

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. J-PAL Dataverse: J-PAL researchers conduct a couple of interesting research in Indonesia and the website provides replication datasets for the research.