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    1. Can I get help in implementing a microdata catalog in my agency?

    2. How do I start in DataBank?

    3. How can I rescale a series to a different base year?

    4. How can school enrollment and completion indicators be over 100 percent?

    5. How do you use the Gender Gap in the Map view?

    6. Why are some indicators disaggregated whereas others are not?

    7. Do you have Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross National Income (GNI) forecasts?

    8. What will you do with information I provide when I register, login, or submit a request for a licensed dataset?

    9. What is the difference between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) net inflows and net outflows?

    10. How can I keep up to date with updates, additions, and revisions?

    11. How does the World Bank classify countries?

    12. Why do the estimates in the Subnational Population Database sometimes differ from official statistics?

    13. What are quintiles?

    14. What is the difference between purchaser prices, producer prices (VAP), and basic prices (VAB)?

    15. How do you define remittances?

    16. What is an “international dollar”?

    17. What is the $2.15 poverty line, and based on this new measure, how many people are living in extreme poverty in the world?

    18. Why do countries revise their national accounts?

    19. I need a more comprehensive list of surveys and censuses conducted in low and middle-income countries. Where can I find that?

    20. How do I customize the Table in DataBank?

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