International Statistical and Data Resources at NUL

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International Statistical and Data Resources at
NUL

• Chris Davidson, International Documents Assistant
  
• Kathleen Murphy, Social Science Data Services
  Librarian

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Numeric Information
Statistics
aggregated
Data
Microdata
In print
Online
E-tables
Databases
Journals
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Including

• Agriculture
• Crime
• Developmental Assistance
• Education
• Employment
• Energy
• Environment
• Financial Statistics
• Globalization
• Health
• Macroeconomic Trends
• Migration

• Natality Mortality
• National Accounts
• Population
• Poverty
• Prices
• Public Finance
• Quality of Life
• Science Technology
• Telecommunications
• Tourism
• Trade
• Transportation

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The organizational structure of the United
Nations mirrors the themes and geography of many
socio-economic indicators

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• The United Nations Statistics Division provides
  access to many key (over 400!) datasets thru the
  UN Common Database (UNCDB)
• Many other, more specialized databases are also
  freely available through the individual agencys
  statistical division

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Going directly to the UN agencies can be a great
place to start

• Data Centre United Nations Educational Scientific
  Cultural Organization (UNESCOs database for
  all core education themes)
• FAOSTAT Food Agriculture Organization (FAOs
  core resource for data relating to food and
  agriculture)
• GEO United Nations Environmental Programme
  (UNEPs Global Environmental Outlook Data Portal)
• LABORSTA International Labor Organization (ILOs
  database on labor statistics)
• WPPDB United Nations Population Division (UNPDs
  World Population Prospects Database)
• WHOSIS World Health Organization (WHO Statistical
  Information System)

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Much UN statistical reporting ends up in large
socio-economic data collections

• World Development Indicators (World Bank)
• International Financial Statistics Online (IMF)
• SourceOECD (OECD)

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World Development Indicators

• Produced by the World Bank
• Annual compilation of data about development. The
  2007 WDI includes more than 900 indicators in
  over 80 tables organized in 6 sections World
  View, People, Environment, Economy, States and
  Markets, and Global Links
• Access networked CD-ROM version using NUnet, via
  the librarys Electronic Resources page be sure
  to use Internet Explorer!
• Print copy is available in the Library's GovInfo
  and Reference department

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International Financial Statistics Online

• Produced by the International Monetary Fund
• One of the major sources for international
  statistics on all aspects of international and
  domestic finance
• Contains approximately 32,000 time series
  (usually 1945-present) covering more than 200
  countries and areas
• Off-campus access through EZProxy or VPN locate
  on NULs Electronic Resources page
• Print copy is available in the Library's GovInfo
  department

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SourceOECD

• SourceOECD is the online publications (books,
  periodicals, working papers...) portal of the
  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
  Development
• Over 25 thematically specialized databases on a
  wide variety of topics (employment, education,
  health, migration, national accounts, etc.)
• Off-campus access through EZProxy locate on
  NULs Electronic Resources page

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ONLINE GUIDES TO DATABASES

• World Development Indicators (University of
  Michigan) http//www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/wdi.htm
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• International Financial Statistics (Columbia
  University) http//www.columbia.edu/acis/eds/dset_
  guides/imf-files/ifs.html
• SourceOECD (OECD) http//lysander.sourceoecd.org/v
  l1780814/cl23/nw1/rpsv/userguide/userguide.htm

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International Micro Data

• SSDS web page http//www.library.northwestern.edu
  /data/subject.html
• International Census data http//international.ip
  ums.org/international/index.html
• Demographic and Health Surveys
• http//www.measuredhs.com/

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International Micro Data

• World Values Survey
• http//www.jdsurvey.net/jds/jdsurvey.jsp
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• http//www.bls.gov/home.htm
• International statistical agencies
• http//www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html

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OTHER INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL RESOURCES

• Government Information web site
• http//www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/index
  .html
• http//www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/index
  -compliant2.html
• International Statistical Resources
  http//www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/resour
  ce/internat/stats.html
• Key International Web Resources
• http//www.library.northwestern.edu/govinfo/resou
  rce/internat/webresource.html

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CONTACT INFORMATION

• Louis Takacs, International Documents Librarian
• l-takacs_at_northwestern.edu
• 847-491-3130
• Chris Davidson, International Documents Assistant
• c-davidson_at_northwestern.edu
• Kathleen Murphy, Data Services Librarian
• kemurphy_at_northwestern.edu
• 847-491-4090
• Jiuping Chen, Data Services Technical Consultant
• j-chen6_at_northwestern.edu