{"id":154,"date":"2007-12-13T11:24:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T17:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/2007\/12\/13\/numbers-anyone\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T15:37:28","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T21:37:28","slug":"numbers-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/154","title":{"rendered":"Numbers, anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for international statistics? Country info? The United Nations may have just the numbers you need!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/unlogo.png\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"United Nations logo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are several United Nations statistical databases available free (for non-commercial use) online at <a href=\"http:\/\/unstats.un.org\/unsd\/databases.htm\">http:\/\/unstats.un.org\/unsd\/databases.htm<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Census Knowledge Base<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Census Knowledge Base, a fundamental part of the resource centre for the 2010 World Population and Housing Census Programme, is a repository of documents relevant for the field of population and housing census taking. more&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Common Database (UNCDB)<\/strong><br \/>\nUNCDB provides selected series from numerous specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas. more&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Demographic Yearbook system<\/strong><br \/>\nStatistics on population size and composition, births, deaths, marriage and divorce, more&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distat, the United Nations Disability Statistics Database<\/strong><br \/>\nBasic statistics on human functioning and disability, more&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Good practices database<\/strong><br \/>\nView this valuable source of information in good practices in official statistics, more&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>InfoNation<\/strong><br \/>\nExperience this global learning project for middle and secondary students with statistical information on countries. more&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joint Oil Data Initiative (JODI)<\/strong><br \/>\nView the monthly oil data for the countries reporting to UNSD, more&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Millennium Indicators Database<\/strong><br \/>\n48 indicators, to measure progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Declaration development goals. more&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Accounts Main Aggregates Database<\/strong><br \/>\nContains a complete and consistent set of time series of main national accounts aggregates from 1970 onwards, more&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants<\/strong><br \/>\nPopulation of city proper urban agglomeration, more&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Population and housing censuses: census dates<\/strong><br \/>\nPopulation and housing census information, more&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Population and Vital Statistics on Internet<\/strong><br \/>\nQuarterly report on the latest census and mid-year population; latest vital statistics of births, deaths and infant deaths, more&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Service Trade Statistics<\/strong><br \/>\nUN ServiceTrade, the United Nations database with Statistics on International Trade in Services, contains annual detailed trade in services data. more&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Social Indicators<\/strong><br \/>\nTables with social indicators covering a wide range of subject matter fields such as education, housing, health, water, more&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Statistics and indicators on women and men<\/strong><br \/>\nStatistics and indicators on six specific fields of concern: population, families, health, education, work and politics and human rights, more&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the same web page you&#8217;ll see a couple of subscription (&#8220;restricted&#8221;) databases also, which are not available. However, the University Library&#8217;s first-floor Periodicals Collection does contain Monthly Bulletin of Statistics issues (which provide economic data for countries and regions) since 1971 (and a few other earlier years as well).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/gpologo.gif\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Government Printing Office logo\" height=\"58\" width=\"60\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The University Library is a federal depository with many federal, state, local, and international documents on a variety of current and relevant issues available to you in print, microfiche, CD-ROM, and electronically. Come check out your government at the University Library!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for international statistics? Country info? The United Nations may have just the numbers you need! There are several United Nations statistical databases available free (for non-commercial use) online at http:\/\/unstats.un.org\/unsd\/databases.htm: Census Knowledge Base The Census Knowledge Base, a fundamental &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/154\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35,38],"tags":[774,783,201,338],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","category-infogov","category-online-the-library","tag-data","tag-government-info","tag-online-resources","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}