Category: databases

Resource: Reproductive Health Indicators Database

This announcement about a very useful resource came through on SAMEA talk earlier this week.
  

MEASURE Evaluation Population and Reproductive Health (PRH) project launches new Family Planning/Reproductive Health Indicators Database
The Family Planning/Reproductive Health Database is an updated version of the popular two-volume Compendium of Indicators for Evaluating Reproductive Health Programs (MEASURE Evaluation, 2002).
New features include:
    * a menu of the most widely used indicators for evaluating family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) programs in developing countries
    * 35 technical areas with over 420 key FP/RH indicators, including definitions, data requirements, data sources, purposes and issues
    * links to more than 120 Web sites and documents containing additional FP/RH indicators    
This comprehensive database aims to increase the monitoring and evaluation capacity, skills and knowledge of those who plan, implement, monitor and evaluate FP/RH programs worldwide. The database is dynamic in nature, allowing indicators and narratives to be revised as research advances and programmatic priorities adapt to changing environments.


South African Consumer Databases

Eighty20 is a neat consultancy that works with various databases available in South Africa to provide businesses, marketers, policy makers and developmental organisations with data-informed insights. I am subscribed to their “fact a day” service, which provides all sorts of interesting statistical trivia, but also exposes the various databases available in South Africa.

Today, their email carried an announcement about a new service called XtracT beta which apparently allows you to “crosstab anything against anything”

They say:

XtracT is the easiest way to access consumer information databases in South Africa. Just choose what interests you (demographics, psychographics, products, media, etc), and a filter if you wish, and a flexible cross-tabulation will appear.

Details about how it works can be found on the XtracT website, and they even have a short tutorial video to explain it.

In case you wondered about their logo… This t-shirt might give you a hint!

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