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Welcome to the DIME Wiki!

The DIME Wiki is a public good developed and maintained by DIME Analytics. The Wiki is designed for researchers and M&E specialists at the World Bank, as well as clients, donor institutions, universities, NGOs, and governments. The DIME Wiki is a collaborative, open-source resource that presents guidelines that are easy to understand and apply for users of varying levels of expertise.

This landing page offers links to several curated categories that users may find helpful, as well as our narrative Handbook.

Research Design

• Experimental Methods
• Quasi-Experimental Methods
• Research Ethics
• Sampling & Power Calculations

Data Collection

• Primary Data Collection
• Secondary Data Sources
• Field Management
• Questionnaire Design

Analysis

• Data Management
• Data Cleaning
• Data Analysis
• Software Tools

Publication

• Reproducible Research
• Publishing Data
• Collaboration Tools
• Dissemination

Cross-cutting Resources

Stata Coding Practices

SurveyCTO Coding Practices

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About DIME and DIME Analytics

DIME Analytics creates tools that improve the quality of impact evaluation research for all. We take advantage of the concentration and scale of research at DIME to develop and test solutions to ensure data work quality across our portfolio, and to make public training and tools available to the larger community of development researchers who might not have the same capabilities.

DIME is the World Bank’s impact evaluation department. Part of DIME’s mission is to intensify the production of, and access to, public goods that improve the quantity and quality of global development research, while lowering the costs of performing impact evaluations for the entire research community. The DIME Wiki aims to further this initiative, and is funded by the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office through the i2i Trust Fund.