Research resources on the Internet

Ja-Kyung YooChief, ICT Applications Section

Information, Communication and Space Technology Division

UN ESCAP

Types of resources

Bibliographic citationsStatistics/TablesGraphs/MapsFull text reports/articlesDocuments – laws, policies and regulations

Source of resources on the Web International organizations Universities/Population research institutes National statistical offices Donors (e.g. UNFPA, world bank, USAID etc) Web portals

Bibliographic citation

Population Index http://oprtest.princeton.edu/popindex/

primary reference tool to the world's population literature

presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics

website provides a searchable and browsable database containing 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000

Bibliographic citation

POPLINE®(POPulation information onLINE) http://db.jhuccp.org/popinform/basic.html

world's largest database on reproductive health provides more than 300,000 citations with abstracts

to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports

subject field: population, family planning, fertility, population law and policy, adolescent RH, women and development, HIV/AIDS and STD, and related health issues

funded primarily by the USAID

Statistical information

United Nations Statistics Division

Millennium indicators database

Social indicators

Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants

Good practice

InfoNation

Population and vital statistics

The world’s women 2000: trends and statistics

Statistical information

UNESCAP Statistics DivisionAsia and the Pacific in figuresLinks to national statistical offices and UN

Statistics Division

Population Reference Bureau (PRB) - Datafinder

UN ESCAP Population programme

UN Population Division World urbanization data tables World population 2002

UNFPA State of World Population - figures and tables

World Bank online data query World Development Indicators (WDI) database Data by country Data by topic Quick reference tables

Population laws, policies and regulations UN ESCAP population site Annual review of Population law

Directories, portals PRB – PopNet: directory of population related websites Development gateway-online sources of population statistics

::Alan Guttmacher Institute Custom Table Maker::Ameristat United States Population Data::Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)::DHS STATcompiler (Macro International Inc. Demographic and Health Surveys)::Dolphn (Data Online for Population, Health and Nutrition)::Eurostat, Statistical Office of the European Communities::FAOSTAT (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)  Statistical Database::MacroInternational HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators Database::National and International Data Sources and Links (From the United Nations Statistics Division)::OECD Statistics Portal:::Population Reference Bureau DataFinder::UNAIDS HIV/AIDS Information and Data::UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), Statistics Division::UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Statistical Division::UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)::United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Global and Regional International Data Centres

::UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)::UN High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) Statistics Page::UN Population Division Publications Page::UN Population Division World Population Prospects Database::UN Statistics Division Demographic, Social and Housing Statistics::UN Statistics Division Millenium Indicators Database::UNICEF Statistical Databases::US Census Bureau::US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data and Statistics::World Bank Data and Statistics Homepage::World Bank Data on Poverty::World Bank GenderStats::World Bank Health, Nutrition and Population Statistics::World Bank Millenium Development Goals Website: MDG-related Data::World Health Organization Links to National Health-Related Websites::World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)::UN Statistics Division Common Database [subscription is required]::World Bank Development Indicators [subscription is required]

Population and Reproductive Health site of the Development gateway: a portal on reproductive health issues

University sites with population programme IIPS site http://www.iipsindia.org/ Chulaongkorn University College of

Population Studies http://www.chula.ac.th/college/cps/

Mahidol University Institute for Population and Social Research http://www.population.mahidol.ac.th/

Demography and Sociology Program at ANU: http://demography.anu.edu.au/index.html

Population Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University: http://www.pop.psu.edu/

Population Studies Center, Univ. of Pennsylvania: http://lexis.pop.upenn.edu/

Searching information on the InternetSearch engines: Yahoo Altavista Google

Evaluation of search results

Timeliness of information Source of information (organization, title of

journal) Author Citation

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