September 15

Why Are There No Human Trafficking Stats? ISS Special Report

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Podcast: Thursday 8th September - 2011

September 15

Farm Murders And ATM Bombings In The SAPS Crime Stats. ISS Podcast

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Thursday 8th September - 2011
May 23

World Health Statistics 2011. WHO

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World Health Statistics 2011 contains WHO’s annual compilation of health-related data for its 193 Member States, and includes a summary of the progress made towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and associated targets.

Addendum
Progress on the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT: http://www.who.int/entity/whosis/whostat/EN_WHS2011_Full.pdf

DOWNLOAD THE REPORT AND ASSOCIATED TABLES IN ENGLISH, BY SECTION:                                                     Table of contents and introduction

Part I. Health-related Millennium Development Goals

Part II. Global health indicator tables and footnotes

 

DOWNLOAD THE DATA TABLES
Part II. Global health indicator tables and footnotes

 

January 11

Latin America And The Caribbean Statistical Yearbook 2010. ECLAC

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The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) issued the Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2010. The Yearbook covers demographic, social, economic issues; it also provides data on natural resources and environment. Read the press-release or view the Yearbook online. UN Pulse Permanent Link: Latin America and the Caribbean statistical yearbook 2010
July 14

Africa Is The Hungriest Continent From FAOSTAT

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Undernourished population map  from FAOSTAT

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced free access to its online database of food, hunger and agricultural information - FAOSTAT that contains over one million data points covering 210 countries and territories. UN Pulse:

Permanent Link: FAO - free access to food and hunger statistics database
March 23

Africa Development Indicators 2010. World Bank. Updated 24.03.2010

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The new World Bank report on Africa Development Indicators 2010 sheds light on a kind of "quiet corruption" in Africa, which is severely affecting that continent's poor and endagering future development. The report focuses on the way “quiet corruption”, the failure of public servants to deliver goods or services paid for by governments – is pervasive and widespread across Africa and is having a disproportionate effect on the poor, with long-term consequences for development leads to an increasingly negative expectation of service delivery systems, causing families to ignore the system. Access the online indicators database and the read the essay on the key findings of the report. From UN Pulse Permanent Link: Africa Development Indicators 2010

Data Online

Africa Development Indicators 2010

The ADI Data tool is an intuitive environment that allows users to visualize, create, share and embed in a friendly format dynamically generated charts and maps: http://datavis.worldbank.org/

 

 

February 10

Statistical Yearbook For Latin America And The Caribbean, 2009

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UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) published Statistical yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2009. The report is only available online in both English and Spanish and can be downloaded from the ECLAC web site. The report focuses on

  • Demographic and social aspects, with special emphasis on gender.
  • Economic statistics, such as prices, international trade, balance of payments and national accounts.
  • Information on the environment and natural resources.
  • Methodological aspects related to the origin of the data, their definition and coverage.

    From UN Pulse: Permanent Link: Statistical yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2009
    • January 26

    World Government Data

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    This excellent site was created by the Guardian newspaper to provide a single portal to the increasing number of free open access data websites maintained by national governments worldwide. Many of these sites include full text data sets, statistics which the public can download free of charge. Search the list for individual subject areas (covering all forms of domestic policy - health, education, defence, crime, economic policy, finance and census and population materials) or browse the directory of links to national open data initiatives. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world-government-data

    From Intute.ac.uk

    March 25

    Databook Of International Labour Statistics 2008. Japan Institute For Labour Policy And Training

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    From The Resourceshelf

    Direct to Databook

    JILPT Databook of International Labour Statistics 2008 is the 12th edition of a comprehensive statistical annual from a variety of sources in different countries. The databook 2008 contains 145 tables corresponding to nine major substantive chapters on 1) economy and business; 2) population and labour force; 3) employment structure; 4) unemployment, unemployment insurance and employment adjustment; 5) wages and labour costs; 6) hours of work and working-time arrangements; 7) labour union, industrial relations and occupational accidents; 8] education and human resources development; 9) worklife and welfare. All tables are available for download in Excel and PDF format.

    Source: Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (via Basefsky’s IWS Documented News Service)

    March 06

    Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG): India

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    India: Human Rights Data Analysis Group
    The Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) was originally founded by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). It develops statistical techniques to enable human rights groups and committees of investigation to produce evidence based analyses of human rights abuses worldwide. In this role it has supplied data to truth and Reconciliation committees and International criminal Tribunals. Its website provides information on the aims and work of the group. It includes free access to press releases, project reports and full text statistical datasets. The latter relate to war crimes, genocide and human rights abuses. This section contains materials relating to India from approximately 2008 onwards. They include quantative analysis of violence and insurgency in the Punjab. From Intute.ac.uk
    http://www.hrdag.org/about/india-punjab.shtml
    March 03

    Statistical Yearbook For Latin America And The Caribbean. ECLAC

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    The 2008 edition of the Statistical Yearbook for Latin America and the Caribbean has been issued (full text, 2.78 MB) in English and Spanish (press release). The Yearbook is divided into four chapters:

  • Demographic and social areas, with special attention to gender;
  • Economical statistics such as prices, international trade, balance of payments and national accounts;
  • Information on natural resources and the environment;
  • Methodological aspects and other data on sources, definitions and coverage of the statistics cited. UN Pulse permalink                
    • December 09

    OFFSTATS: Official Statistics On The Web

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    The OFFSTATS database provides access to free statistics from official sources on the web. Web links are arranged by country, region or subject. The database can be searched by a single category, or a combination of categories.

    All of the content of the database is held in the public domain and is available through the Internet.

    http://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/

    October 06

    Correlating Tools On Countries Of The World

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    "NationMaster.com, the world's largest online statistical database for country comparisons, has announced free access to their correlation tools. This service allows the user to compare any two statistics (out of a database of over 5,700) in order to shed new light on information highly-useful to journalists, writers, professors and the general public. Correlations can therefore be used to inform debates on crime, politics, education, poverty and so on". Peter Scott's library blog
    September 29

    National Government Statistical Web Sites Webarchive

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    National Government Statistical Web Sites webarchive
    This site contains a database of archived websites from national government statistical agencies which have been selected by staff from Indiana University and archived by the Archive-It subscription service created by the Internet webarchive . They include over 70 examples of the websites of statistical agencies from governments in Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Eurasia, East Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Oceania, Russia and Eastern Europe, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Each entry has snapshots of the site from different dates which capture news stories. Typical site contents include official statistics, datasets and statistical yearbooks. The collection may be searched or browsed. Most archived sites are from 2006/7 onwards. Intute.ac.uk
    http://www.archive-it.org/collections/
    May 21

    World Health Statistics 2008

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    The World Health Organization has issued a new publication, 2008 World Health Statistics . This publication includes 10 highlights of health statistics as well as data on an expanded set of over 70 key health indicators. Download the report in full (pdf,3.62Mb) or in parts from the website.

    UN Pulse   Permanent Link: World Health Statistics 2008

    March 20

    UN. 2007 Statistical Yearbook For Asia And The Pacific

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    March 17

    OECD Statistics Portal [Pdf]

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    OECD Statistics Portal [pdf]

    http://www.oecd.org/statsportal/0,2639,en_2825_293564_1_1_1_1_1,00.html

    As part of its mission, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) collects various statistics needed to create reports for both its member nations and the general public. This site provides access to that set of materials, and visitors can select data sets by topic or just look over their latest press releases. The topical sections offered here include development, energy, finance, health and twenty others. Visitors can also use the "Resources" section on the left-hand side of the page to locate specific resources designed for journalists, government officials, and members of civil society. Additionally, visitors can also sign up for RSS feeds and elect to receive email alerts. [KMG] Scout Report

    March 04

    Recording Casualties In Armed Conflict Project

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    Recording casualties in armed conflict project
    The Recording Casualties in Armed Conflict project is a special intiative of the Oxford Research Group. It aims to build a database of statistics on war casualties worldwide. The site includes papers and reports on the technical capacity to achieve this and ots progress. It includes links to major projects and datasets where human losses, war casualties data, facts and figures can be located. These include materials relating to casualties of the Gulf war and Iraq crisis. Intute.ac.uk
    http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/work/global_security/casualties.php
    February 22

    UN Data [Statistical Database]

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    A new statistical database, UN Data, has been made available by the Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). The database provides a common search for many UN-system statistical databases, including, among others,

    Over time, more databases will be added. There are various options to search and to download the data.

     Permanent Link: UN Data UN Pulse
    February 22

    Youth And Poverty Statistics

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    The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has issued a new publication, Putting Young People Into National Poverty Reduction Strategies: A Guide to Statistics on Young People in Poverty (full text, pdf, 1.72 MB). The guide shows how to use accessible databases on the Internet to provide individual countries with a statistical profile of young people in poverty. 

    Permanent Link: Youth and Poverty Statistics UN Pulse

    January 22

    Statistical Commission For Africa

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    The new Statistical Commission for Africa holds its first session this week at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). Most of the documents have been posted to the website, but are not available through the Official Document System. The theme for the meeting is "Scaling up statistical development in Africa”.From UN Pulse  Permanent Link: Statistical Commission for Africa
    January 21

    NationMaster

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    NationMaster, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease...

    http://www.nationmaster.com