Open data

Licence, citation and reuse

Consom'Action open data is published under a free licence. Here is what you can do with it and how to cite it.

Licences

Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 Default
You may copy, distribute, adapt and use the database, including commercially, provided you credit the source and share any derived database under the same licence.
https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)
You may share and adapt the data for any purpose, provided you credit the source and indicate changes.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Reuse conditions

Credit Consom'Action and the dataset reference (CA-DATA-…) in any publication or application.
Do not present results as representative of the whole population: samples are non-probability.
State the update date and status (final) of the data used.
Do not attempt to re-identify people: files only contain aggregates.
Report any error to donnees@consomaction.bf.

How to cite

Each dataset has a stable internal reference in the CA-DATA-YYYY-NNN format, to include in the citation. Example:

Consom'Action Burkina (2026). Mobile Money: are fees clear to users?: aggregate results [dataset]. Reference CA-DATA-2026-001. Licence Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0. https://dev.consomaction.bf/en/donnees/mobile-money-frais-confiance

No individual data

Files are produced from the public statistics of surveys: counts and percentages per option, averages, aggregate scores. No individual answer, identifier or free text is included. Test participations and those removed by quality control are excluded.