Research resources on
the Internet
Ja-Kyung Yoo
Chief, ICT Applications Section
Information, Communication and Space Technology
Division
UN ESCAP
Types of resources
 Bibliographic citations
 Statistics/Tables
 Graphs/Maps
 Full text reports/articles
 Documents – 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to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished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 Division
 Asia and the Pacific in figures
 Links to national statistical offices and UN
Statistics Division
Population Reference Bureau (PRB) Datafinder
UN ESCAP Population programme
UN Population Division
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World urbanization data tables
World population 2002
UNFPA State of World Population - figures and tables
World Bank
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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
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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
Internet
Search engines:
 Yahoo
 Altavista
 Google
Evaluation of search results
 Timeliness of information
 Source of information (organization, title of
journal)
 Author
 Citation
Thank you
yoo.unescap@un.org