Numeric Data for UN Information

Citing Numeric Data

Country and Region Codes for Statistical Use (UN Statistics Division)
Citing Internet and Other Electronic Works, Binghamton University, State University of New York

Direct Access to International Numeric Data

CIESIN: Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network

The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) was established in 1989 as an independent non-governmental organization to provide information that would help scientists, decision-makers, and the public better understand the changing relationship between human beings and the environment. In 1998, CIESIN became a center within Columbia University's Earth Institute. The SEDAC Gateway provides search access to numerous catalogs, such as the SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data & Applications Center) catalog and over 40 other federal, regional and state level and international catalogs. Together, these catalogs contain thousands of metadata records from both the social and earth sciences. The Gateway search supports free text, temporal and spatial searching. The SEDAC Gateway also supports searching of a select number of full-text resources; Model Visualization of Integrated Assessments of Climate Change; Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators; Stratospheric Ozone and Human Health

Macroeconomics and Growth, World Bank

Examines the relationship between national policies and economic growth. Site contains abstracts of published articles and working papers. Associated data sets can be downloaded directly in compressed Excel and Lotus formats, along with information on the data codings.

FAOSTAT database, Food & Agriculture Organization

Data collection from the FAO covering crops and livestock production, trade, commodity balance, population, and land use.

Foreign Labor Statistics

This WWW site offers direct access to over 200 series of labor statistics, including price, compensation, labor cost, employment and unemployment data for the countries of the world. The section Most Requested Statistics offers country-level access to 8 of the labor statistics series. The section Get Detailed Statistics offers detailed series by keyword, country and year(s)with several output options.

International Data Base, U.S. Census Bureau

This data collection is a compilation of demographic and socio-economic data created in the US Census Bureau's International Programs Center. This WWW site offers two features: 1) selected demographic data by country can be directly accessed, or 2) the entire contents of the International Data Base can be retrieved from this site to your computer. The program requires 40 MB of hard disk storage and takes about 2 hours to transfer via FTP. It comes with menu driven software allowing the user to customize the information search and output.

National Bureau of Economic Research

This site offers online data: Penn-World Tables, Mark 5.6, Business Cycle Dating, the NBER Macro History Database (with over 3500 monthly, quarterly, or annual economic time-series).

Peace Science Society, (Pennsylvania State University)

The Peace Science Society (International) is a scientific association of individuals developing theory and methods for the study of peace, located at Pennsylvania State University. The Society distributes selected data sets in ZIP format.

United Nations InfoNation

InfoNation data, drawn from the United Nations Statistics Division, allows the user, through a frames-based interface, to select up to seven of 185 countries and four of 37 variables. Retrieval is for the latest year available only, providing a snapshot view of country information.

United Nations Statistics Division Common Database

UNSTATS provides selected series from 30 specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas.

United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network.

The European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the United Nations (HEUNI) has carried out an European and North American analysis of the United Nations Crime Surveys covering years 1975 - 1994. The analysis has resulted in 7 publications. The report on the Fifth United Nations Survey differs considerably from its predecessors. Data have been supplemented by other information sources, including in particular the results of the International Crime (Victim) Survey.

International Numeric Data at Yale University

Social Science Data Archive

The Social Science Data Archive at Yale University holds numerous datasets. relevant to the study of the U.N. system. To locate a specific data set, search the StatCat, the catalog for the Social Science Data Archive.

Yale datasets are received from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research and directly from the International Monetary Fund, OECD, and the World Bank. These datasets, restricted to Yale faculty, staff, and students, are available on the Yale network and on the computers at Yale's Social Science Statistical Laboratory.

International Numeric Data at Other Locations

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, University of Michigan

ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) is located at the Institute for Social Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The world's largest repository of computer-readable social science data, the ICPSR acquires, processes, and distributes data collections on a broad range of topics. The Consortium's 400 member institutions may obtain any of these data collections, generally at no charge; nonaffiliated researchers may also use the data, after paying an access fee. The Yale University representative is Julie Linden at the Social Science Library and Information Services (e-mail: julie.linden@yale.edu).

Council for European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)

Provides access to the searchable CESSDA Integrated Data Catalogue and to a clickable map of European data archives.

Social Sciences Data on the Internet, UC-San Diego

Link to U.S. and international numeric social science data available over the internet.

Sources of Statistics

Statistics Division, United Nations (New York)

Features a list of United Nations Statistical Databases Online and a list of print publications.

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