Reproducibility package for Stylized Facts about the Global Health Workforce
Overview
The global public-sector healthcare workforce — including both medical and administrative and support staff — are central to the delivery of quality public health services. Effectively managing this workforce is conditional on sound understanding of public sector employment and compensation practices. This includes good data on their size, characteristics, and wage levels. Cross-national data on the global health workforce, however, has been limited to date. This note aims to address this information gap by presenting stylized facts on the global health workforce drawing on the Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators (WWBI), a global dataset on employment and pay practices in the public sector produced by the World Bank. The dataset allows first-of-its-kind assessment of both the size, structure, and demographic characteristics of the healthcare workforce as well as the quality, equity, and competitiveness of compensation practices within the sector in a uniform, globally harmonized manner.
Reproducibility Package
| Repository name | URI |
|---|---|
| Reproducible Research Repository (World Bank) | https://reproducibility.worldbank.org |
Reproducibility
Paper exhibits were reproduced in a computer with the following specifications:
• OS: Windows 10 Enterprise, version 21H2
• Processor: IIntel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6226R CPU @ 2.90GHz, 2900 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
• Memory available: 16.7 GB
• Software version: Stata 18
~3-minutes runtime
To successfully replicate the analysis using this package, new users must modify the file path in the main 'do' file and execute it. Please note that Figures 3 and 11 cannot be replicated with this package, as they rely on unpublished data, and the relevant code sections have been commented out. The authors have provided all necessary code to replicate the other figures, although there may be some aesthetic differences and rounding discrepancies, as the original figures were created using Excel and Data Wrapper. For more detailed information, please refer to the attached report and the README file.
Data
Most of the data used in this study are publicly available and included in the reproducibility package. However, a small portion of the Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators (WWBI) dataset remains unpublished. This unpublished portion was obtained directly from the authors of the WWBI and cannot be disclosed publicly. It is used exclusively for Figure 3 and Figure 11 of the report.
Description
| Author | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Zahid Hasnain | World Bank | zhasnain@worldbank.org |
| Faisal Ali Baig | World Bank | mbaig5@worldbank.org |
| Ayesha Khurshid | World Bank | akhurshid2@worldbank.org |
| Turkan Mukhtarova | World Bank | tmukhtarova@worldbank.org |
2024-05
Scope and coverage
| Location | Code |
|---|---|
| World | WLD |
Disclaimer
The materials in the reproducibility packages are distributed as they were prepared by the staff of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this event do not necessarily reflect the views of the World Bank, the Executive Directors of the World Bank, or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the materials included in the reproducibility package.
Access and rights
| Name | URI |
|---|---|
| Modified BSD3 | https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause/ |
Contacts
| Name | Affiliation | |
|---|---|---|
| Ayesha Khurshid | World Bank | akhurshid2@worldbank.org |
| Reproducibility WBG | World Bank | reproducibility@worldbank.org |
Information on metadata
| Name | Abbreviation | Affiliation | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reproducibility WBG | DIME | World Bank - Development Impact Department | Verification and preparation of metadata |
2024-05-15
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