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UN CountryStats app: for iPhones and iPads (released 1 March 2012)
Series: , No. Version 1.0
Sales number: download free of charge
Languages: English
Download free of charge the new UN CountryStats app. Adapted from the print version of the World Statistics Pocketbook, this app for iPhones and iPads is available for download free of charge from the App store. Data on various key economic, social and environmental indicators for 216 countries and areas can be viewed in table format for each individual country, and comparisons of up to three countries at a time can be made, by indicator, and displayed as bar graphs. |
International Definition and Measurement of Levels of Living (An Interim Guide)
Series: E, No. CN.3/270/Rev.1
Sales number: 61.IV.7
Languages: [English]; [French]; [Spanish]
This historical document, issued in 1961, was the first to address comprehensively international concerns for comparable reporting of levels of living among countries. It suggests a set of basic components (subjects) of levels of living, indicators for each component, and additional basic indicators needed as background. It was prepared for use as an authoritative basic guide for governments, research organizations and others in the standardization and measurement of levels of living and provides invaluable information on early statistical thinking in this field. It superseded the 1954 report of a committee of experts, International Definition and Measurement of Standards and Levels of Living (E/CN.3/179- E/CN.5/299). The Guide was issued jointly by the United Nations, the International Labour Office, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the World Health Organization. |
Handbook on the Collection of Fertility and Mortality Data
Series: F, No. 92
Sales number: 03.XVII.11
Languages: [Arabic]; [Chinese]; [English]; [French]; [Russian]; [Spanish]
Price: $25
The Handbook on the Collection of Fertility and Mortality Data provides detailed information on available sources/methods to obtain these data and may be used to decide what combination will best suit national conditions to derive fertility and mortality indicators. Fertility and mortality statistics provide crucial data for social and economic planning and for informed decision making. For example, planning for the provision of maternal and child health services can only be accurate if data on expected numbers of births in future years are available. Similarly, the construction of schools and training of teachers must rely on expected numbers of students at different grade levels. Data on fertility and mortality are collected by several complementary sources: civil registration systems, population censuses and samples surveys. The appropriateness of different combinations of sources and methods is discussed in details, given different circumstances. |
Housing in the World, Graphical Presentation of Statistical Data
Series: F, No. 63
Sales number: 93.XVII.10
Languages: [English] only
Price: $15
This publication offers an overview of basic housing indicators with methodological notes on time periods available and sources of data for further references. Indicators covered refer to the type of housing unit or living quarters, type of tenure, type of bathing, cooking, heating and toilet facilities in housing units and the source of water supply. The publication covers 136 countries or areas. |
Handbook of National Accounting --
Integrated Environment and Economic Accounting
Series: F, No. 61
Sales number: 93.XVII.12
Languages: *[Arabic]; *[Chinese]; *[English]; *[French]; *[Russian]; *[Spanish]
Price: $45
This handbook on integrated environmental and economic accounting responds to the request in Agenda 21 of the Earth Summit of Rio de Janeiro that methods of integrated economic accounting for the environment be published and widely circulated. The handbook presents concepts, methods and classifications which incorporate environmental concerns including natural resource depletion, environmental quality degradation and environmental protection into national accounts by means of a system of integrated environmental and economic accounting (SEEA). The main objective of integrated accounting is to support integrated social, economic and environmental policy by means of environmentally adjusted indicators of national wealth, net domestic product, consumption and capital formation. The handbook will be used, in particular, to assist countries in implementing national programmes or case studies of environmental accounting. |
Handbook on Social Indicators
Series: F, No. 49
Sales number: 89.XVII.6
Languages: *[Arabic]; *[Chinese]; [English]; *[French]; *[Russian]; [Spanish]
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Improving Statistics and Indicators on Women Using Household Surveys
Series: F, No. 48
Sales number: 88.XVII.11
Languages: [Arabic]; [English]; [French]; [Russian]; [Spanish]
Price: $17
Presents practical guidance for using household surveys to collect statistics and indicators on women across the various economic and social fields covered by survey programmes. |
Training Users and Producers in Compiling Statistics and Indicators on Women and Development
Series: F, No. 45
Sales number: 87.XVII.6
Languages: *[Arabic]; *[English]; *[French]; *[Russian]; [Spanish]
Price: $17
Presents the syllabus, training exercises and summaries of lectures and discussions from the subregional seminar for users and producers of statistics and indicators on women in development, held in Harare in 1985. |
Concepts and Methods for Integrating Social and Economic Statistics on Health, Education and Housing
Series: F, No. 40
Sales number: 86.XVII.23
Languages: *[Arabic]; *[English]; *[French]; *[Russian]; *[Spanish]
This report takes stock of the development of systematic linkages between social and economic statistics using the system of national accounts and balances in the fields of health, education and housing. Its objectives are threefold: to consider the usefulness in the social fields of relevant internationally recommended concepts and classifications from economic statistics; to illustrate the application in the social fields of currently accepted economic concepts and classifications, with examples including theoretical and applied work on the concept "total consumption of the population"; and to suggest ways of overcoming conceptual and practical problems. It is one of a series of reports on integration and improvement of social, demographic and related statistics and indicators.
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Compiling Social Indicators on the Situation of Women
Series: F, No. 32
Sales number: 84.XVII.2
Languages: *[Arabic]; *[English]; *[French]; *[Russian]; *[Spanish]
Explains how to develop indicators on women from sources of data which exist in most countries, such as population censuses, household surveys and registration systems. Presents illustrative indicators and gives guidance on how to avoid stereotypes and biases which may affect the existing data on women.------ Out of print. |
Improving Social Statistics in Developing Countries: Conceptual Framework and Methods
Series: F, No. 25
Sales number: 79.XVII.12
Languages: *[English]; *[French]; *[Russian]; *[Spanish]
In this technical report, part one, "Promoting the improvement of social statistics in developing countries", outlines a general strategy for the development and integration of social statistics programmes in developing countries. It is concerned primarily with the practical problems of organizing and implementing integrated programmes for improving social statistics. It examines the nature and purpose of social statistics, the rationale for a programme to improve them, the uses to which they can be put and the value of placing them in a co-ordinated general framework for integration, presented in part two. It suggests possible ways of developing practical and viable statistical operations to make social statistics more relevant, sufficient, timely and co-ordinated. Part two, "Framework for the integration of social and demographic statistics in developing countries", presents a conceptual outline and a discussion of technical methods for improving and integrating social, demographic and related economic statistics that may be feasible for developing countries to apply in the medium-term future, consonant with their statistical and social circumstances and priorities for improving the welfare and living conditions of their populations. The approach presented is one of step-by-step integration and systematization of social statistics and social indicators, fully integrated with the continuous development of the required basic statistics in social, demographic and related fields.------ Out of print. |
Compendium of Statistics and Indicators on the Situation of Women 1986
Series: K, No. 5
Sales number: 88.XVII.6
Languages: *[English]/[French]
Brings together available statistics and indicators for 178 countries or areas in 33 tables covering population; households and families, marital status, fertility; economic participation and population not economically active; national and household income and expenditure; education and literacy; health and health services; disabled persons; housing conditions and human settlements; public affairs and political participation; criminal justice.------ Out of print. |
Women's Indicators and Statistics Database (Wistat), version 4 on CD-ROM
Series: K, No. 15
Sales number: 00.XVII.4
Languages: [English]
Price: $149
Wistat on CD-ROM is a comprehensive and authoritative compilation of currently available statistics and indicators on gender, population and development for 206 countries or areas, covering mainly the period 1970 to 1997.[more...] |
Handbook for producing National Statistical Reports on Women and Men
Series: K, No. 14
Sales number: 97.XVII.10
Languages: [Arabic]; *[Chinese]; [English]; [French]; *[Russian]; [Spanish]
Price: $24.95
This Handbook shows how to develop and publish a minimum set of statistics and indicators on women's and men's position in society. It is based on lessons learned in preparing The World's Women 1970-1990: Trends and Statistics, which was a collaborative effort of United Nations agencies to present a factual view of progress made globally towards advancing the situation of women relative to men. The World's Women generated demand for gender statistics publications that could be widely disseminated to users of varied backgrounds. This Handbook is a step-by-step guide to the preparation of such publications in countries, from organizing a planning committee to promoting the final product. A main feature is the practical guidance and illustrations given on developing statistical indicators from national data sources. |
Social Indicators (Internet only)
Series: K, No. 13
Sales number:
Languages: [English]
(Internet only)
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WISTAT--Women's Indicators and Statistical Database (version 3)
User's Guide and Reference Manual
Series: K, No. 10
Sales number: 96.XVII.14
Languages: *[Arabic]; *[Chinese]; [English]; [French]; *[Russian]; [Spanish]
Price: $25
Revision: Rev.1
This valuable guide and reference for users of Wistat 3, the Wistat User's Guide and Reference Manual describes in detail the organization of data in the database, gives definitions, sources and limitations of statistics and indicators in the database and provides a comprehensive set of reference annexes listing topics and series included in Wistat 3, countries or areas included in the database and other useful information. |
International Recommendations for Water Statistics
Series: M, No. 91
Sales number: 10.XVII.15
Languages: *[Arabic]; *[Chinese]; [English]; *[French]; *[Russian]; *[Spanish]
Price: $49
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The International Recommendations for Water Statistics (IRWS) was developed to assist countries establish and strengthen information systems for water, which in turn support the design and evaluation of better water policies. In particular, these recommendations: (a) support the collection, compilation and dissemination of internationally comparable water statistics in countries; (b) support the implementation of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounts for Water (SEEA-Water); and (c) provide the necessary information for deriving coherent and consistent indicators, enabling comparisons over time and between countries from an agreed list of data items.
The IRWS consolidates the experiences and practices of countries and international organizations in the field of water statistics, and was developed in close collaboration and consultations with many countries and international experts. Following this process, the IRWS was adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission (UNSC) at its forty-first session in February 2010.
The UNSC is a functional Commission of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations that brings together the Chief statisticians from the Member States. As such it is the highest decision making body for international statistical activities, especially the setting of statistical standards, the development of concepts and methods and their implementation at the national and international level. |
Social Indicators: Preliminary Guidelines and Illustrative Series
Series: M, No. 63
Sales number: 78.XVII.8
Languages: *[Chinese]; *[English]; *[French]; *[Russian]; *[Spanish]
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World Statistics Pocketbook 2011
Series: V, No. 36
Sales number: E.12.XVII.4
Languages: [English]
Price: $20
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The World Statistics Pocketbook 2011 is the thirty-first in a series of annual compilations of key statistical indicators prepared by the United Nations Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Over 50 indicators have been collected from more than 20 international statistical sources and are presented in one-page profiles for 216 countries or areas of the world. This issue covers various years from 2000 to 2011. For the economic indicators, in general, three years - 2000, 2005 and 2010 - are shown; for the indicators in the social and environmental categories, data for one year are presented. The topics covered include: agriculture, balance of payments, education, energy, environment, food, gender, health, industrial production, information and communication, international finance, international tourism, international trade, labour, migration, national accounts, population and prices.[more...] |
World Statistics Pocketbook 2010
Series: V, No. 35
Sales number: E.11.XVII.4
Languages: [English]
Price: $17
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The World Statistics Pocketbook 2010 is the thirtieth in a series of annual compilations of key statistical indicators prepared by the United Nations Statistics Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Over 50 indicators have been collected from more than 20 international statistical sources and are presented in one-page profiles for 216 countries or areas of the world. This issue covers various years from 2000 to 2010. For the economic indicators, in general, three years - 2000, 2005 and 2009 - are shown; for the indicators in the social and environmental categories, data for one year are presented. The topics covered include: agriculture, balance of payments, education, energy, environment, food, gender, health, industrial production, information and communication, international finance, international tourism, international trade, labour, migration, national accounts, population and prices.[more...] |
World Statistics Pocketbook Least Developed Countries 2003
Series: V, No. 26/LDC
Sales number:
Languages: [English] only
This special issue of the United Nations annual World Statistics Pocketbook provides a compilation of basic social, economic and development indicators that together comprise a framework for assessing in quantitative terms each country's current development situation. The indicators presented can, at present, serve as benchmarks for assessment, monitoring and further development of statistical capacities in the least developed countries. |
World Statistics Pocketbook Landlocked Developing Countries 2003
Series: V, No. 25/LLDC
Sales number:
Languages: [English] only
This special issue of the United Nations annual World Statistics Pocketbook provides a compilation of basic social, economic and development indicators that together comprise a framework for assessing in quantitative terms each country's current development situation. The indicators presented can, at present, serve as benchmarks for assessment, monitoring and further development of statistical capacities in the landlocked developing countries. |
Statistical Charts and Indicators on the Situation of Youth 1980-1995
Series: Y, No. 9
Sales number: 98.XVII.15
Languages: [English]
Price: $10.95
Youth are at the forefront of global, social, economic and political developments. Statistical Charts and Indicators on the Situation of Youth is a statistical and analytical sourcebook that uses charts and graphs to highlight main aspects and trends in the social and economic situation of youth from 1980-1995 in 202 countries. The format and statistics are as simple as possible so that they can readily be understood and used by non-specialists. The five chapters cover population, education and training, economic activity, health and child-bearing, and households and marital status. The charts and tables are accompanied by statements of how the indicators are defined, where the data are from and how they can be interpreted. The book was prepared by the Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat to promote the development of statistics and indicators to contribute to improved awareness and policies on youth. It updates previous issues from 1992 and 1985. |
Statistical Chart on Children: Early Child Development and Learning Achievement 1990 (wall chart)
Series: Y, No. 5
Sales number: 90.XVII.14
Languages: [English] only
Price: $5.95
This poster was produced in collaboration with UNICEF, UNESCO and the World Health Organization with nine indicators for 160 countries, it demonstrates how child, family and community factors such as infant mortality rates, malnutrition, female illiteracy and access to health service have a powerful influence on school enrolment rates and educational progress. |
Selected Statistical Indicators on Youth 1985 (wall chart)
Series: Y, No. 1/Add 1
Sales number: 85.XVII.12A
Languages: *[English]; *[French]; *[Spanish]
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Statistical Indicators on Youth
Series: Y, No. 1
Sales number: 85.XVII.12
Languages: *[English]/[French]
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