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