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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. |
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. |
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.------ Out of print. |
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. |
Social Indicators (Internet only)
Series: K, No. 13
Sales number:
Languages: [English]
(Internet only)
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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 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. |
This on-line publication listing is regularly updated and includes all Statistical Division publications in current use.
Publications may be obtained from bookstores and distributors throughout the world or:
United Nations, Sales Section,
DC2-0853, New York 10017, USA
(facsimile 1-212-963-3489), e-mail: publications@un.org
Web page: https://unp.un.org/
or Sales Section, Palais des Nations,
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
(facsimile 41-22-917-0027), e-mail: unpubli@unog.ch
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