Best Cities for Business (Arthur Andersen/Fortune)
Ranks best cities for doing business by region (North America, Latin America, Asia, and Europe)
Numerous economic indicators not easily available elsewhere
Office rent, domestic companies
Cost of living, life expectancy, crime
Labor force, percent female labor force
Data on the Net (UC-San Diego)
Searchable and browsable data base of approximately 800 numeric data sites, data archives, catalogs, and commercial vendor web sites
All entries are annotated and provide direct links to the web site
Finding Statistics Online (Berinstein)
Guide to web and on-line (e.g. DIALOG, LEXIS) data sources
Includes free and subscription based materials
Segmented by detailed subject (e.g. box office receipts, Bulgaria--Public Opinion, Charitable Contributions, Turkey
To be used in conjunction with Paula Berinstein's book of the same title (UGL HA 33.5 .B471), published in 1998
Global Statistics (United Nations)
Unannotated links to the major statistical agencies of each country
Links to international agencies, including UN bodies, which publish statistics
GenderStats (World Bank)
National-level statistical data on poverty, education, health, labor force, and political participation broken down by gender
Approach data by country and then theme or via the country profiles
Global Urban Indicators Database (UN Center for Human Settlements)
Detailed socioeconomic indicators for 237 cities in 110 countries,, mostly in the Third World
Data includes poverty level and percent in poverty, family income distribution, per capital gross city product (under health), size of school classrooms, per capita murder rates, home
ownership, land use
Data in pdf and text formats
Globastat
Rankings of countries of the world on statistical indicators found in the CIA World Factbook
Subjects include land area and elevation, population, life expectancy, fertility, mortality, and AIDS
Economics, poverty, income ratios, electricity use, GDP
Communications, internet use, IP providers, televisions
Transportation, military personnel and expenditures
InfoMine (U.Calif-Riverside)
Extensive alphabetic index to federal, international, and California government information
Analyzes individual publications and web sites of government agencies
Includes government agency statistical publications
Optional keyword approach
Info Nation (UN)
Current statistics on 185 countries
Thirty-seven variables include: population, life expectancy, fertility, school enrollment, illiteracy, homicides, motor vehicles, GDP and labor force
Carbon dioxide emissions, threatened species, and energy consumption are among the environmental data
Separate section on Twenty-One Cities of the World focuses on population and environment
International Relations Data Page (FSU)
Extensive annotations for international and U.S. data sets
Economic, political, social, environmental, and military variables
Sources include data sets from articles and books which would be otherwise difficult to locate
Millennium Indicators (United Nations)
Forty-eight social and economic indicators for 197 countries annually, 1985-2000
Includes carbon dioxide emissions, immunizations, AIDS, education, illiteracy, mortality, malnutrition, forested lands, sanitation, water and telephone lines
Data accessed by name of country
NationMaster
Create graphs, maps, and country rankings for a very broad range of social, economic and cultural statistics
Subjects include individual crimes, currency, sports, religion, transportation, electoral system, budget, trade balance, health, education, economics, marriage rate
Countries may be ranked by region as well as worldwide from the top 100 to the bottom 5
Sample: Papua-New Guinea has one of the lowest crime rates in the world while Saudi Arabia has the largest car theft rate in the Middle East
Nations Online
Worldwide population characteristics, including race, religion, access to sanitation
Maps and detailed information about individual countries including links to government agencies, major newspapers, sports, city populations, time zones, flags
Currency converters and international airport codes
Official Statistics on the Web (Auckland NZ)
Extensive links to official country statistical publications by name of country
Subject index to international data
PRAXIS (UPenn)
Links to international governmental and non-governmental, regional, and social work organizations
Links to social and economic development web sites arranged by subject (e.g. population, housing, culture, employment) as well as social services available
Reference tools for social workers in the field of international development, including maps, flags, contacts, and travel information
Statistical information among the links
Social Indicators (UN)
Brief data on population, housing, education and literacy, income and uncemployment
Data for individual countries with varying dates of collection given
Statistical Data Locators (Nanyang Technological University)
Annotated guide to country and international data sites worldwide
Extensive in subject and national coverage
Arranged by continent and country
Statistical Universe (UMich Only)
Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974; business, association and state government data since 1980, and international agencies since 1983
Access through the Statistical Sources menu
Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign country, by age, by disease)
- Sample Search: gdp w/10 quarterly and by foreign country
About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
For items not hot-linked:
- Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to the Documents Center for the microfiche version
- Consult Statistical Universe Guide for various web searching
alternatives
UN Monthly Bulletin of Statistics
Times series of unemployment, consumer prices, energy, exchange rates, population, and transportation for individual countries
Password available in the Documents Center for in-library use
Initial free registration required
Additional statistics appear in the paper edition of the United Nations Monthly Bulletin of Statistics (Doc.Cen. HC 57 .A1 M79 - Stat.Ref.)
UN Statistics Common Data Base (UMich Only)
Hundreds of data elements for almost all countries, 1946+ present
Subjects include agriculture, economics, health, prices, men and women, education, labor, development assistance, demographics, energy, environment
Basic View allows selection of single data series for up to 10 countries for 20 years
Advanced View supports multiple series, years, and countries with downloading capability into Excel, ASCII, or CSV formats
Web site includes definitions, sources of the data, and a topical list of subjects
World Development Indicators (UMich Only)
World Bank data base with 593 series of demographic, economic, and environmental information for 226 countries
Time series covers 1960 to present when annual data are available for a given country
Choose countries or groups of countries
Choose series with the tree or alphabetical view
Choose years
Once you view the data, choose the orientation (columns or rows), scaling options, display (chart, index, raw)
Download into ASCII or Excel format
For the University of Michigan, this replaces access provided by the dear departed CITRIX server
The Documents Center will maintain a CD-ROM for single workstation access