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Unit 2: Making cross-national comparisons using macro data >> 2.3 Nature of the UK Data Service Macro Databanks
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This section looks at who collects the international macro data made available through the UK Data Service and how that collection is managed.

It introduces the main international organisations responsible for the data and its publication and discusses who is responsible for improving data standards.

It emphasises the importance of checking metadata in making cross national comparisons and suggests ways that metadata can be accessed from within the UK Data Service site and elsewhere.

It indicates who is responsible for the harmonisation of data series between countries in order to make more accurate cross national comparisons possible.

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The University of Manchester; Mimas; ESRC; RDI

Countries and Citizens: Unit 2 Making cross-national comparisons using macro data by Dave Fysh, University of Portsmouth is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales Licence.