High-income parents teach their children independence, low-income parents teach obedience. The evidence in the graphs below is striking. An interesting theoretical model on how family values interact with social mobility. buff.ly/3j4DGrx
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#UNICEF Chief Statistician and Deputy-Director heading its Data & Analytics Section | Committed to giving voice to #EveryChild | Learn more about the team: data.unicef.org | Learn more about me: https://github.com/jpazvd | Former #WorldBank #SefazRJ #IPEA
4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2024 — nearly half of them (2.3 million) in the first 28 days of life. New UN IGME estimates, out this month in The BMJ. A short thread.
Half the world’s children face at least 3 climate hazards. New UNICEF Children’s Climate Risk Report 2026 maps the crisis with granular data.
The World Cup has 48 teams. Our scoreboard reads differently: 21 of those nations run MICS surveys — 61 since 1995 — producing the data that tells us how their children are really doing. #WorldCup2026 #MICS #DataForChildren
How much of a child's schooling is set by birth? New global database (Muñoz & Jaque, World Development): in the average country, ≥56% of education inequality traces to family background. ECA most mobile (0.45), SAR least (0.64). Open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2026.107415
📊 From Evidence to Action: Using Data to Drive Education and Skills Outcomes 🗓️ Tuesday, June 23, 2026 🕙 10:00–11:30 AM ET 💻 Online via Webex — registration link in comments #FoundationalLearning #EducationData #LearningPoverty #SDG4 #DataForChildren
🎈 New @UNICEFData report, out today for #InternationalDayOfPlay: ▪️ 80M+ children 2–4 (1 in 5) don't play with caregivers at home ▪️ 90M+ under-5s (1 in 7) have no playthings at home ▪️ Kids are half as likely to play with fathers as with mothers Play is not a luxury. 📖 data.unicef.org/resources/th...
The Power of Play - UNICEF DATA
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For three decades, UNICEF's Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) have produced nationally owned, internationally comparable data on children in the hardest places
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That's a wrap on the MICS 2027 Survey Design Workshop. Ten-plus countries in one room, all working toward the same thing: trusted, nationally owned data on children, women, and families. Nataliya...
That's a wrap on the MICS 2027 Survey Design Workshop. Ten-plus countries in one room, all working toward the same thing: trusted, nationally owned data on children, women, and families. Nataliya Bor...
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Building human capital where it matters — and measuring it when it counts
Reflections from a UNICEF–World Bank session at the World Bank Group's New York Office Economic Series, built around the new report Building Human Capital Where It Matters: Homes, Neighborhoods, and W...
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This Monday I’m moderating “Safeguarding Data Systems for Food & Nutrition Security” at the World Bank Fragility Forum — with GNAFC, UNICEF & CRS. In fragile settings, the first thing to break is our ability to see the crisis. Register free, in person or online. #FragilityForum
📣 New UNICEF Call for EOI: a Global Long-Term Arrangement for consultancy services on education systems strengthening across multiple countries. It’s a global roster — rapid deployment across HQ, regional, and country offices, not a single assignment. 🔗 www.ungm.org/Public/Notic...
Global Long-Term Arrangement for Services (LTASs) for the provision of consultancy services to UNICEF in Education
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📊 UNICEF is hiring a Statistics & Monitoring Manager (P-4) in Dakar, leading data & analytics across 24 countries in West & Central Africa. 8+ yrs exp, Stata/R/Python, French + English required. 📅 Deadline: 10 May 2026 🔗 jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job... Pls RT 🙏
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📢 UNICEF at #MeasureDev2026 🗓 April 29 | 🕒 3:35 PM ET | 💻 In person & online I’ll be speaking at the Measuring Development panel: “Transparency in the Age of AI.” My presentation “AI Reliability for Official Statistics: Benchmarking Large Language Models with the UNICEF Data Warehouse”
Looking forward to this discussion at #CPD59 👇 Aligning Policy & Data Production Building Sustainable Demographic & Health Statistics With colleagues from UNICEF, UNESCO, WHO, UN DESA, and country leaders (PHL, NGA, MEX) 📅 Apr 14 | 8:15–9:45 AM ET 📍 Hybrid | UNHQ + Zoom #OfficialStatistics
📊 Too much global development data still lives in spreadsheets. But modern analysis requires data acquisition as code. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
unicefData: Download Indicators from UNICEF Data Warehouse
An R client to fetch SDMX (Statistical Data and Metadata eXchange) CSV series from the UNICEF Data Warehouse <<a href="https://data.unicef.org/" target="_top">https://data.unicef.org/</a>>. Part...
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📊 Too much global development data still lives in spreadsheets. But modern analysis requires data acquisition as code. 📦 CRAN cran.r-project.org/package=unicef… #OpenData #OfficialStatistics #RStats #DataForChildren #ReproducibleResearch
📢 The future of household surveys is being shaped now! Country Leadership and Global Partnership for Data on Children 📅 Wednesday, 4 March 🕕 18:15–19:45 📍 UNICEF House, 3 UN Plaza, New York 👉 Register here: lnkd.in/eRZ7PJ_T #MICS #OfficialStatistics #UNSC57 #DataForChildren #SDG
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Joao Pedro Azevedo@jpzvd.bsky.social · 7mo agowbopendata turns 15 this year. For 15 years, it has provided reproducible access to World Bank Open Data from Stata — lowering barriers to official statistics and embedding metadata in workflows. v18 now on #SSC: ssc install wbopendata Reliable AI starts with reliable statistical infrastructure.
wbopendata turns 15 this year. For 15 years, it has provided reproducible access to World Bank Open Data from Stata — lowering barriers to official statistics and embedding metadata in workflows. v18 now on #SSC: ssc install wbopendata Reliable AI starts with reliable statistical infrastructure.
Evidence doesn’t engage by existing—it engages through the interfaces we design. Using an NBER paper on school phone bans, I tested the last mile with AI video. Clunky. Imperfect. Fast. The science stays the same. The frontier is how trusted evidence reaches people. What should we do differently?!
Joao Pedro Azevedo@jpzvd.bsky.social · 8mo agoSchool Cell Phone Bans and Student Achievement Bottom line: cellphone bans can strengthen learning environments—but implementation and equity during enforcement matter. www.nber.org/digest/20251...
🚀 unicefData v2.0.0 is out Major upgrade to metadata integrity, QA, and reproducibility across R, Python, and Stata — with all tests passing. 🔗 github.com/unicef-drp/u...
New eBioMedicine evidence links infant screen time with slower cognitive processing & higher adolescent anxiety — based on longitudinal brain imaging and behaviour data. 🔗 www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi... #ChildHealth #BrainDevelopment #EarlyYears #EvidenceBased
Neurobehavioural links from infant screen time to anxiety
Higher infant screen time is linked to accelerated topological maturation of the visual and cognitive control networks, leading to prolonged decision latency and increased adolescent anxiety. Sensory ...
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No robust average effect of economic inequality on either subjective well-being or mental health. Sommet, N., Fillon, A.A., Rudmann, O. et al. No meta-analytical effect of economic inequality on well-being or mental health. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
No meta-analytical effect of economic inequality on well-being or mental health - Nature
A meta-analysis of 168 studies reveals that economic inequality is not significantly associated with subjective well-being or mental health.
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School Cell Phone Bans and Student Achievement Bottom line: cellphone bans can strengthen learning environments—but implementation and equity during enforcement matter. www.nber.org/digest/20251...
School Cell Phone Bans and Student Achievement
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This video reminds me that National, official household surveys are among the most equitable instruments of official statistics—enabled through public funding to inform public policy, yet protected by professional independence. www.linkedin.com/posts/teuta-...
#kosovoagencyofstatistics #unicef #mics | Teuta Halimi
Wrapping up the year with over 140,000 km traveled by dedicated colleagues from the #KosovoAgencyofStatistics and #UNICEF, alongside more than 70 fieldwork teams, to reach and listen to around 8,000 h...
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@statacorp.bsky.social community interested in official statistics on Children, take a look at the new #unicefData ado!!! github.com/unicef-drp/u...
GitHub - unicef-drp/unicefData: unicefData is an open data and analytics platform led by UNICEF’s Office of the Chief Statistician, providing reproducible, standards-based tools for accessing and usin...
unicefData is an open data and analytics platform led by UNICEF’s Office of the Chief Statistician, providing reproducible, standards-based tools for accessing and using official child-related stat...
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