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Commitment to Equity Institute, Tulane University has revamped The CEQ Data Center. The CEQ Data Center on Fiscal Redistribution is an information and monitoring system where results of the fiscal incidence studies conducted and/or disseminated by the CEQ Institute at Tulane University are presented at increasing levels of detail. Unless otherwise specified, the results were generated by the CEQ Institute and its collaborators applying the methodological framework described in Nora Lustig's Commitment to Equity Handbook: Estimating the Impact of Fiscal Policy on Inequality and Poverty. The Data Center has increased transparency and opened new research possibilities for policy analysts and scholars across a range of disciplines seeking to explore: 1. the redistributive or poverty impacts of direct taxes, direct cash and near-cash transfers, indirect taxes, subsidies, and benefits from public spending on education, health, and housing; 2. the effectiveness, per dollar spent, of different public programs at reducing poverty; 3. who bears the burden of taxation and who benefits from government spending, as well as how these benefits are distributed across socioeconomic groups, genders, and geographic areas; 4. the rates of coverage (how many of the poor receive benefits from an antipoverty program) and leakage (how much of the benefits of an antipoverty program go to the nonpoor); 5. whether and to what extent some poor pay more in taxes than they receive from the government in transfers and subsidies, etc. The CEQ data centre has several products including the Standard indicators, Master WorkBooks, CEQ Data Visualisation tool, CEQ Metadata table and CEQ Harmonised Microdata. The CEQ Data Center includes a collection of spreadsheets containing the summary indicators required to assess the redistributive impact of fiscal policy (changes in inequality and poverty, concentration shares, incidence by quantile, and so on), known as the CEQ Standard Indicators. This information is periodically updated to reflect new data points and indicators. The CEQ Data Visualization draws from the summary indicators and includes interactive graphs using state-of-the-art data visualization techniques. This tool also includes Country Profile pages that highlight inequality, poverty, and net payer/net beneficiary indicators for every country assessed to date. Data Center information may be disaggregated by gender, race, ethnicity, and other categories. The site also includes the completed CEQ Master Workbooks, multi-sheet spreadsheet “books” which store detailed fiscal system information and the calculated fiscal incidence indicators for assessed countries. Both the Standard Indicators and Master Workbooks are publicly available for download directly from the website. The CEQ Harmonized Microdata—with prefiscal and postfiscal incomes and all fiscal interventions at the household level for each country—are published in the CEQ Dataverse on Harvard Dataverse. This is available through open access, but only for those countries that allow it. The Data Center also includes the CEQ Data Center Inventory Table, a key metadata document with detailed information about the data availability and allocation methods and assumptions used for each assessment, organized by country, year, and study. The Data Center includes the CEQ-based indicators incorporated as targets of the Sustainable Development Goals: • Redistributive Impact of Fiscal Policy | Indicator 10.4.2 • Pro-poor Public Social Spending | Indicator 1.b.1