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What's New in The Daily [Statistics Canada]:
July
3
Canada at a Glance 2009
HTML
PDF
(3.4MB, 27 pages)
Canada at a Glance 2009 presents the current Canadian demographic,
education, health and aging, justice, housing, income, labour market household,
economic, travel, financial, agricultural, foreign trade and environmental statistics.
This booklet also includes important international comparisons, so that readers
can see how Canada stacks up against its neighbours. Updated yearly, Canada at
a Glance is a very useful reference for those who want quick access to current
Canadian statistics.
[ earlier
editions of this report ]
Source:
Canada
at a Glance - main product page
See
also:
Finding
Canadian statistics
950 links to Canadian statistics on a wide range
of topics from Aboriginal Peoples to Women
Source:
University
of Toronto Data Library Service
Canadian Social Statistics
Statistics
Canada
The first website to check for Canadian
government statistics is Statistics Canada, which merits its own section on this
page. The vast collection of information on the StatCan website includes detailed
social program statistics in many areas, as well as more general stats on population,
the economy, and --- well, you'll just have to visit the StatCan website to find
out for yourself...
February 2009
NOTE:
Many StatCan links on this page are broken
--- when you encounter a dead link,
do a search on the StatCan site or using Google.ca for the exact title of the
report you're seeking.
The links on this page will be updated when StatCan
has completed the update of its website to conform with the latest Govt. of Canada
"Common Look and Feel" guidelines.
[ See My
Common Look and Feel Rant - Gilles. ]
[Alternate
link] | 1.
Aboriginal peoples | 12.
Environment | 23.
Population and demography 24. Prices and price indexes 25. Reference 26. Retail and wholesale 27. Science and technology 28. Seniors 29. Society and community 30. Statistical methods 31. Transportation 32. Travel and tourism |
The Daily
The Daily
is Statistics Canada's official release bulletin, the Agency's first line of communication
with the media and the public. The Daily issues news releases on current social
and economic conditions and announces new products. It provides a comprehensive
one-stop overview of new information available from Statistics Canada. The
Daily is released at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time each working day.
Samples of the content you'll find in The Daily:
February
10, 2009
(under New Products)
Legal
Aid in Canada:
Resource and Caseload Statistics, 2007/2008 (PDF
- 616K, 127 pages)
February 2009
* In 2007/2008, $670 million was spent
on providing legal aid services in 10 provinces and territories. 1 This represents
over $20 for every person living in these jurisdictions.
* In the last five
years, legal aid spending after inflation has decreased just as many times as
it has increased, but on average, it has risen about 1% per year. Compared to
the previous year, spending in 2007/2008 was virtually unchanged, up by less than
one-half of one percent.
[ Highlights
]
[ Legal
Aid in Canada, Description of Operations (March 2001, PDF - 1MB, 204
pages) ]
---
February
9, 2009
Provincial
and territorial government finance:
Assets and liabilities, fiscal year ending
March 31, 2007
As of March 31, 2007, the net financial debt (defined
as the excess of liabilities over financial assets) of provincial and territorial
general governments totalled $242.4 billion, down $10.1 billion or 4.0% from March
31, 2006. Financial assets increased by $39.7 billion, larger than the growth
of $29.5 billion in liabilities. The increase in assets was mainly the result
of a $27.4 billion increase in securities held by provincial and territorial general
governments. All provinces, except Quebec, saw an improvement in their financial
position for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2007.
- incl. links to two tables:
*
Net financial debt of provincial and territorial general governments at March
31, 2007
* Provincial and territorial general governments net financial debt
at March 31
Canada
at a Glance presents the current Canadian demographic, education, health, justice,
housing, income, labour market, economic, travel, financial, and foreign trade
statistics. This booklet also includes important international comparisons, so
that readers can see how Canada stacks up against its neighbours. Updated yearly,
Canada at a glance is a very useful reference for those who want quick access
to current Canadian statistics. |
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Community Profiles Census
Trends 2006
Census Tract Profiles 2006
Highlight Tables 2006
Census Dictionary 2006
Aboriginal Population Profile GeoSearch2006 Preview of Products and Services Multimedia
(requires Macromedia Flash Player) Topic-based
tabulations Source: ---------------------------------------------------------------- TheStar.com
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and Mail In-Depth : Census 2006 ------------------------------------------------- Canada
e-Book
GeoSearch2006
Interactive Map of Canada Canada
Year Book Historical Collection (1867 to 1967) Browse
the collection by year Browse
the collection by topic [ more recent issues of the Canada Year Book - $ ] Canadian
Economic Observer Population characteristics Tables by subject: Population estimates and projections Canadian
Social Trends Online
Issues of Canadian Social Trends - hundreds of articles going back to
1996 Statistics
Canada Research Papers - Income Series - Includes Survey
of Labour and Income Dynamics Source: NOTE:
for links to Statistics Canada reports on low-income measures (LICO, LIM)
and income inequality, Statistical
Profile of Canadian Communities More free Canadian Statistics (The Economy - The Land - The People - The State) Free
Internet publications from Statistics Canada: Education
statistics program Canadian
Education Statistics Council |
Population Stats
June 23, 2009
|
StatCan Tables by Subject: Population characteristics
Statistics
Canada Census Page
- links to Census pages for : 2006 - 2001 - 1996
-
incl. recent releases :
* March 4, 2008 - Labour, education, language of work
and place of work and commuting to work
* January 15, 2008 - Aboriginal peoples
*
March 13, 2007 - Population and dwelling counts
*
Language
* Immigration
and citizenship
* Mobility
and migration
* Thematic
Maps
A thematic map shows the spatial distribution of one or more specific
data themes for standard geographic areas. The map may be qualitative in nature
(e.g., predominant farm types) or quantitative (e.g., percentage population change).
* GeoSearch
2006
This interactive mapping application makes it easy to find many
places in Canada, see them on a map, and get basic geographic and demographic
data for those places. Click and zoom in on a map of Canada or search by place
name, street name, street intersection or postal code. GeoSearch will display
the appropriate map showing boundaries and other features. GeoSearch automatically
displays population and dwelling counts for the selected places, and shows what
kind of geographic area it is and its relationship to other geographic areas.
2006
Community Profiles, Census year 2006 (update)
These profiles present
community-level information from the 2006 Census of Population. Users can search
for an area of interest by typing its 'place name' in the box below or by clicking
on a province or territory from the list below and selecting the area from a list.
Census
Trends, 2006 Census
Census Trends presents a series of summary data
trends spanning the 2006, 2001 and 1996 censuses. The product is designed to facilitate
the analysis and comparison of the changing demographic and socio-economic composition
of selected geographic areas across Canada. Summary data trends include percentage
distributions and percentage change.
| Society
Statistics Examine statistical profiles of Canada's people - employment, education, population, health, and more. - incl. links to the following: * 2006 Census of Canada * 2006 Community Profiles * Canadian Statistics by Subject * Historical Statistics of Canada * Population and demography * Population Pyramid * Provincial and Territorial Statistics * Statistical Profile of Canadian Communities * Statistics on Canadian Social Conditions. Source: Government of Canada |
AgeSource/AgeStats
Worldwide [incl. Canada]
http://www.aarpinternational.org/database/
The
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
covers aging and aging-related topics quite well, and this website is one of their
many compelling initiatives. The databases, AgeSource and AgeStats, on AARP's
international website are designed to "facilitate the international exchange
of policy and program-relevant information in aging." Under the "Aging
Everywhere" tab is an interactive map that allows the visitor to read "Country
Profiles" as well as read articles about a region selected from the map.
A "Comparative Data Search" can also be done by clicking on the link
above the map. There are multiple ways to search the information in the databases.
On the left hand menu visitors can explore by topic or by region. Some of the
topics include "Aging & Society", "Economic Retirement &
Security", "Livable Communities" and "Long-Term Care".
Searching for a particular topic can be accomplished by using the keyword search
box in the middle of the page. The search can be further limited by deciding which
databases to search, and by information type, geographic coverage, and language.
Reviewed
by:
The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2009.
http://scout.wisc.edu/
|
Canadian
Economy Online (Government of Canada website) -
also includes information and learning resources to aid in understanding important
aspects of the Canadian Economy : Key indicators (ten key indicators of the Canadian
Economy, 10 years of data) - Economic concepts (50 economic concepts) - Key Economic
events (timeline of key economic events in the past century and how they impacted
the Canadian economy) - Canada Yearbook (overview of the Canadian economy as featured
in the most recent edition of the Statistics Canada publication, The Canada Yearbook). |
Below,
you'll find links to two of the top statistical sources I'd recommend for current
and historical Canadian social programs:
Social Security Statistics, Canada
and Provinces and Historical Statistics of Canada
Social
Security Statistics, Canada and Provinces This is a goldmine of statistical information (beneficiary data and expenditure data) on current and defunct Canadian federal social programs, and even some on provincial/territorial programs. This
report offers 25 years of longitudinal data on costs and numbers of beneficiaries
for most programs - over 100 tables - covering a large number of programs ---
here's a partial list: Preface (short blurb only) List
of Tables A
number of tables were removed from this edition of the Social Security Statistics
report, including some tables with info on Blind Persons'
Allowances, Disabled Persons' Allowances and Unemployed Assistance. Many of the tables are historical and likely of little interest except to historians and CAP-o-philes --- they offer historical caseload and expenditure statistics on each of the CAP cost-sharing components (General Assistance - Homes for Special Care for Children and Adults - Child Welfare - Health Care - Other Welfare Services and Work Activity). Scroll down the list of tables to find a particular program, then click on its name to access the HTML version of the table (the HTML page includes links to the PDF and Excel versions of the table). You'll find
many key stats tables and some interesting analyses here - only a few of which
appear below A few sample tables: Table
360 - Total Federal-Provincial Cost-Shared Program Expenditures, 1978-79 to 2002-03 Table
361: Canada Assistance Plan (CAP) - Number of Beneficiaries of General Assistance
(including dependants), as of March 31, 1979 to 1996
Table
362 : Total Federal-Provincial Cost-Shared Expenditures for General Assistance,
by Province/Territory, 1978-79 to 1995-96 Table 434 Table
438 Source: |
Historical Statistics of Canada
contains links to over 1,000 statistical tables (downloadable in Excel format)
on the social, economic and institutional conditions of Canada from the start
of the Confederation in 1867 to the mid-1970s. It's worth downloading the
free Excel
2003 File Viewer from Microsoft if you don't have Excel software on your machine. Here's a sample section: Section
C: Social Security - by T. Russell Robinson, Health and Welfare Canada |
Welfare Statistics
Current/Historical
Provincial/Territorial Welfare Statistics:
- see the Key
Welfare Links page of this site - it contains links to welfare statistics
in many Canadian provinces (but sadly not all ---- yet), and these are usually
more detailed than the stats that appear below.
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National Welfare Statistics
Social
Assistance Statistical Report: 2005 NOTE: Chapter
Two of the report is a five-page descriptive overview of social assistance
in Canada in 2005. It provides information about the federal contributions to
provincial, territorial and municipal social assistance under the Canada Assistance
Plan (1996-1996), the Canada Health and Social transfer (1996-2004) and the Canada
Social Transfer (2004 to date). Complete
report Link
to the first edition of this report: Source: |
Related reports from Social Policy Directorate of HRSDC:
| Social
Security Statistics, Canada and Provinces - 1978-79 to 2002-03 - updated June 2005 [ Appendix A - methodological notes ] NOTE: See more information about this report higher up on the page you're now reading |
Social
Assistance in Canada, 1994 NOTE: Social Assistance in Canada, 1994 is the final submission of the Canadian federal government in the context of the 1996 OECD study appearing immediately below. This report is a critical and comparative overview of how social assistance or welfare operated in the mid-1990s in 24 countries (including Canada, with a special focus on Ontario). The chapter on Canada presents a factual snapshot of how welfare was working in Canada just before the 50-50 federal cost-sharing under the Canada Assistance Plan (CAP) was replaced by a block fund, the Canada Health and Social Transfer, in April of 1996. The OECD study consisted of a two-stream approach: for each country involved in the study, an "expert informant" (academic) and a "national government official" received a questionnaire on social assistance programs. The questionnaires were different from one another - federal government officials were asked to provide factual responses to over 70 questions, while the academics' questionnaire focused more on an in-depth critique of those same programs. Social Work Professor Patricia Evans was the Canadian expert informant, and I completed the submission, with input from a number of other government colleagues, on behalf of the Canadian government. --- 1996
international social assistance study Social
Assistance in OECD Countries Social
Assistance in OECD Countries Participating
countries: Source: |
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From the National Council of Welfare:
Profiles
of Welfare: Myths and Realities (Spring 1998) |
Welfare
Incomes, 2006 and 2007 Poverty
line is being cracked, but not broken Fact Sheet: 2007
Provincial Welfare Rates Source: Number
of People on Welfare, March 1995 to March 2005 (PDF file - 133K, 1 page) |
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From Statistics Canada:
|
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From the Canadian Council on Social Development: Stats
& Facts Stats
& Facts replaces the - The Social Indicators Launchpad - nearly 100 links to information about social indicators in Canada and other countries |
Poverty/income statistics
From Statistics Canada: June 3,
2009 --- June
3, 2009 [ Earlier editions in this series ]
--- May
11, 2007 Complete study: Income Inequality and Redistribution
in Canada: 1976 to 2004 Related Links: |
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From the Canadian Council on Social Development:
Stats
& Facts
Poverty, welfare and income stats
Stats &
Facts, a new on-line service of the Canadian Council on Social Development, provides
accessible and accurate statistical information. This site is intended for anyone
with an interest in timely data on social and economic indicators. We anticipate
that Stats & Facts will be frequently used by policy analysts, community planners,
activists, journalists, and students. Users will find informative facts sheets
organized by topic areas covering demographics, families, and education. Plans
are underway to add more fact sheets on the labour market, health, and economic
security in the coming months. All of these fact sheets will be regularly updated
to reflect the most current data available.
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From the National Council of Welfare:
Poverty
profile 2004 - Web-only data <=== links to over two dozen tables!
April
2008
Poverty Profile is a regular publication of the Council that is
based on survey data from Statistics Canada.
NOTE : The NCW will not be publishing
a 2004 issue of the report Poverty Profile, but clicking on the link above will
take you to a page of links to over two dozen tables for 2004.
[For contextual
and methodological information, see the 2002/2003
edition of this report (PDF - 3.5MB, 165 pages)]
- includes:
*
Poverty rates, Canada (Trends - Persons, by age and sex - Families - Unattached
individuals)
* Poverty rates by province (Persons - Families - Unattached
individuals - Children - Seniors)
* Children (Family type - Ages of
children)
* Depth of Poverty (Dollars below the poverty line - Percentage
of the poverty line - Total poverty gap ($) - Incomes of less than half the poverty
line)
* Persistence of Poverty (Age group - Education - Transitions
in and out of poverty)
* Poverty and Paid
Work (Number of earners - Weeks of work - Work patterns
- Working poor
* Sources of Income (Transfer payments - Primary sources
of income #1 - Primary sources of income #2
* Inequality
(Income shares - Average income by quintile)
Source:
Poverty
Profile <=== incl. links to four earlier online editions of Poverty
Profile back to 1998.
Employment/unemployment statistics
Tables
by subject: Employment and unemployment
- 50
tables
First Nations Statistics
Statistics
Basic
Departmental Data |
Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (formerly Revenue Canada) "The annual Income Statistics
reports -- formerly called Taxation Statistics -- use tables of data to create
a profile of Canadian taxpayers. The reports use data from personal tax returns
filed two years earlier. For example, the 2002 edition analyzes returns from the
2000 tax year, which had to be filed by the end of April 2001. |
Indicators
of Well-being in Canada
January 2008
This new HRSDC website presents
comprehensive, up-to-date information on the well-being of Canadians and Canadian
society, and how that may be changing over time.
- incl. links to info about
: Work | Learning | Financial Security | Family Life | Housing | Social Participation
| Leisure | Health | Security | Environment
"(...) How many Canadians have a paying job? What levels of education do we have, and how does that compare with other countries? What proportion of marriages end in divorce? How long can we expect to live? Have there been any big changes over the last 20 years or so? This website helps to answer such questions. Developed by Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC), its purpose is to systematically present measures and report on various aspects of well-being that are important to Canadians."
Source:
Human
Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC)
Canadian Health Statistics
Canadian
Institute for Health Information
"The Canadian Institute for
Health Information (CIHI) is an independent, national, not-for-profit organization
working to improve the health of Canadians and the health care system by providing
quality, reliable and timely health information. CIHI's mandate was established
jointly by federal and provincial/territorial ministers of health to coordinate
the development and maintenance of a comprehensive and integrated approach to
health information for Canada, and to provide and coordinate the provision of
accurate and timely data and information required for establishing sound health
policy, effectively managing the Canadian health system, and generating public
awareness about factors affecting good health."
See the Sitemap
of this enormous site for an overview of its content incl. links to research &
reports, the CIHI Data Collection, standards, statistics and client services.
Canadian
Statistics on
Affordable Housing and Homelessness
Housing
Research Tools and Resources
- from the Canada
Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Families, households and housing - from Statistics Canada
Federation
of Canadian Municipalities report says
affordable housing still scarce in Canada's
cities
OTTAWA, Jan. 16 – Despite increased levels of homeownership,
finding an affordable place to live is still a challenge for the most vulnerable
in Canada’s big cities.
This was one of the principal findings of the
fourth theme report in FCM’s Quality of Life series, Trends & Issues
in Affordable Housing &Homelessness, released today in Ottawa. The report,
looks at affordable housing and homelessness between 2001 and 2006 in the 22 large
and medium-sized municipalities and urban regions that make up the Quality of
Life Reporting System.
2008
Quality of Life (QOL) Report:
Trends & Issues in Affordable Housing &
Homelessness (PDF file - 3.6MB, 40 pages)
January 2008
This
publication, the fourth theme report published by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities
as part of the Quality of Life Reporting System (QOLRS), focuses on trends related
to housing and homelessness in 22 large and medium-sized municipalities and urban
regions in Canada. The report's focus is the period 2000-2006, with some reference
to trends dating back to 1991.
Source:
FCM
Quality of Life Reports
[ Federation of Canadian
Municipalities (FCM)]
Old Age Security / Canada Pension Plan Statistics
Includes links to the following Old Age Security and Canada Pension Plan stats:
* ISP Information Card (Rate Card) - updated quarterly,gives the maximum monthly rates for Canada Pension Plan, Quebec Pension Plan and Old Age Security benefits, as well as other selected figures.
* Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security Statistical Bulletin - a monthly publication that provides detailed information such as the number of benefits in pay, the amounts paid, and the distribution of various benefits by age and sex.
* Canada Pension Plan Contributors Report - an annual publication with detailed statistics on the number of contributors and the amount of contributions to the Canada Pension Plan. Although the publication is annual, the data are 2 years in arrears. This is due to ongoing updating of the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency T4 files prior to issuing.
* Canada Pension Plan Benefit Rates - maximum monthly rates for new CPP benefits from 1967 to date, as well as historical data related to the calculation of CPP contributions and benefits. This publication also contains historical tables on pension index and escalation factors.
* ISP Stats Book - annual publication, serves as a reference for Income Security Programs. It contains historical data on CPP and OAS monthly averages of benefits, new benefits and net payments in calendar years or fiscal years. Other data included in this publication are QPP, Average Weekly Wages and Consumer Prince Index data Average Weekly Wages and Statistics Canada's Low Income Cut-off levels.
* Social Security Agreements: Canadian Benefits Paid - data on Canadian Benefits paid (under Social Security Agreements) to people who have lived or worked in another country
* Tables of Rates for Old Age Security, Guaranteed Income Supplement and the Allowance
Source:
Human
Resources and Skills Development Canada
Crime/Justice Statistics
From Statistics Canada:
Sample reports:
May
13, 2009
Juristat
- May 2009
The May 2009 issue of Juristat contains four articles.
(Click
the link above for links to the articles below.)
*
Residents of Canada's shelters for abused women, 2008
This article
focuses on the residents of shelters that assist female victims of violence and
their children.
* Police-reported hate crime
in Canada, 2007
This article examines the nature and extent of hate-motivated
crimes reported to Canadian police services.
*
Youth custody and community services in Canada, 2007/2008
This article
provides an overview of youth admitted to and released from custody and community
services in 2007/2008 and examines trends in admissions and releases since the
Youth Criminal Justice Act came into effect.
*
Trends in police-reported drug offences in Canada
This article explores
long-term trends in the possession, trafficking, production, importing and exporting
of illegal drugs.
[ earlier editions of Juristat ]
December 12, 2008
Police
Resources in Canada, 2008
Police personnel and expenditures
Following
a period of decline throughout the 1990’s, police strength in Canada has
increased over the past decade. At 196 officers per 100,000 population, the 2008
rate was 8% higher than in 1998, although 5% lower than its peak in 1975. While
police officer strength has been increasing, Canada's police reported crime rate
has been decreasing. The 2007 crime rate was at its lowest point in over 30 years.
At the same time, the proportion of crime solved by police reached a 30 year high.
-
incl. two interesting charts:
* Rates of police officers and civilian personnel,
1963 to 2008
* Police officer strength among the provinces, 2008
Complete
report (PDF - 427K, 60 pages)
December 9,
2008
Adult
and youth correctional services: Key indicators, 2007/2008
Canada's
incarceration rate in 2007/2008 rose by 2% from the previous year, the third consecutive
annual increase. The gain was driven by the growing number of adults being held
on remand in provincial/territorial jails while awaiting trial or sentencing.
May
20, 2008
Youth
court statistics, 2006/2007
Fewer young people aged 12 to 17 have
been appearing before a judge since the enactment of the Youth Criminal Justice
Act (YCJA) in April 2003, and fewer are being sent to custody. There were 56,463
youth court cases completed during the 2006/2007 fiscal year. Although virtually
unchanged from the previous year, this amount was 26% lower than in 2002/2003,
the year prior to the enactment of the new legislation.
Complete
report (PDF - 236K, 23 pages)
Highlights
(HTML)
May 20, 2008
Adult
Criminal Court Statistics, 2006/2007
In 2006/2007, adult criminal
courts in Canada processed 372,084 cases involving 1,079,062 charges. The number
of cases processed was virtually unchanged from the previous year.
Complete
report (PDF - 256K, 21 pages)
Highlights
(HTML)
May 16, 2008
Youth
crime, 2006
The crime rate among young people aged 12 to 17 climbed
3% between 2005 and 2006, but was 6% lower than a decade earlier, according to
data reported by Canadian police services. While property crime rates among youth
declined over the previous decade, rates for other types of offences, including
violent crime, increased.
Related report:
Youth
Crime in Canada, 2006 (PDF - 196K, 16 pages)
by Andrea Taylor-Butts
and Angela Bressan
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The
Situation in the U.S.
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From the Pew Center on the States:
One
in 31 U.S. Adults are Behind Bars, on Parole or Probation
Press
Release
Washington, DC
March 2, 2009
Explosive growth in the number
of people on probation or parole has propelled the population of the American
corrections system to more than 7.3 million, or 1 in every 31 U.S. adults, according
to a report released today by the Pew Center on the States. The vast majority
of these offenders live in the community, yet new data in the report finds that
nearly 90 percent of state corrections dollars are spent on prisons. One in 31:
The Long Reach of American Corrections examines the scale and cost of prison,
jail, probation and parole in each of the 50 states, and provides a blueprint
for states to cut both crime and spending by reallocating prison expenses to fund
stronger supervision of the large number of offenders in the community.
Complete report:
One
in 31: The Long Reach of American Corrections (PDF - 2MB, 48 pages)
Key
findings include:
* One in 31 adults in America is in prison or jail, or on
probation or parole (vs 1 in 77 twenty-five years ago).
* Overall, two-thirds
of offenders are in the community, not behind bars.
* Correctional control
rates are highly concentrated by race and geography: 9.2% black adults, 3.7% Hispanic
adults, 2.2% white adults; 5.5% men, 1.1% women
* Georgia, where 1 in 13 adults
is behind bars or under community supervision, leads the top five states that
also include Idaho, Texas, Massachusetts, Ohio and the District of Columbia.
The
report also analyzes the cost of current sentencing and corrections policies.
Source:
Pew
Center on the States
[ Pew Charitable
Trusts ]
The Pew Charitable Trusts applies the power of knowledge to solve
today's most challenging problems.
Pew's Center on the States identifies and
advances state policy solutions.
One
in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008 (PDF file - 635K, 37 pages)
Febraury
2008
U.S. Prison Statistics - from the U.S. Department of Justice
Related links:
Canada:
U.S.
Tops in the World in Incarceration Rate: Conservatives Hoping to Catch Up
By
Brian Gordon
February 4, 2008
The United States has more people in prison,
per capita, than any other country in the world. More than China, more than Iran,
more than oppressive dictatorships the world over. And this is the model that
Stephen Harper and the Conservatives want to follow by implementing 'tougher'
drug laws.
Source:
Green Party of Canada
International:
World
Prison Population List (Seventh Edition) (PDF file
- 80K, 6 pages)
January 2007
Source:
King's
College, London
Newfoundland
and Labrador NOTE: if any of the links above are broken, try this alternate source: Provincial
and territorial statistics offices - from Statistics Canada |
Miscellaneous Canadian statistical links
Finding
Canadian statistics
950 links to Canadian statistics
on a wide range of topics from Aboriginal Peoples to Women
Source:
University
of Toronto Data Library Service
Federation
of Canadian Municipalities report says
affordable housing still scarce in Canada's
cities
OTTAWA, Jan. 16, 2008
Despite increased levels of homeownership,
finding an affordable place to live is still a challenge for the most vulnerable
in Canada’s big cities. This was one of the principal findings of the fourth
theme report in FCM’s Quality of Life series, Trends & Issues in Affordable
Housing &Homelessness, released today in Ottawa. The report looks at affordable
housing and homelessness between 2001 and 2006 in the 22 large and medium-sized
municipalities and urban regions that make up the Quality of Life Reporting System.
2008
Quality of Life (QOL) Report:
Trends & Issues in Affordable Housing &
Homelessness (PDF file - 3.6MB, 40 pages)
January 2008
[NOTE:
this file is S-L-O-W to open (on Jan. 16), likely because many people are trying
to download the report at the same time...]
This publication, the fourth theme
report published by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities as part of the Quality
of Life Reporting System (QOLRS), focuses on trends related to housing and homelessness
in 22 large and medium-sized municipalities and urban regions in Canada. The report's
focus is the period 2000-2006, with some reference to trends dating back to 1991.
Source:
FCM
Quality of Life Reports
[ Federation of Canadian
Municipalities (FCM)]
Research
Resources for the Social Sciences (Craig McKie) - MEGASITE!
- Craig McKie's Links
to Demographic Sites
Economic Indicators - Nova Scotia (Nova Scotia Finance Department)
Lars
Osberg
Professor of Economics, Dalhousie
University
Working Papers - dozens of papers back to 1993
CV/Publications by Lars Osberg - 175+ links articles, book chapters, etc.
Purchasing
power parities 1992 to 2001
June 28, 2002
"Interest
remains high in the value of the Canadian dollar compared with its US counterpart
and in the comparative levels of output between the two countries. Released today
are updated results for bilateral US-Canada purchasing power parities (PPPs) and
real expenditures covering the years 1992 to 2001."
Purchasing
Power Parities and Real Expenditures, United States and Canada 1992-2001(PDF
file - 743K, 48 pages)
Source : The
Daily, Statistics Canada
Related Link :
Purchasing
power parity: A Canada/US exploration
May 30, 2002
"Are
Canadians paying more than Americans for the goods and services they purchase?
How have Canada-US free trade agreements affected the purchasing power of
Canadian consumers relative to their American counterparts?"
- cross-country
comparison of living standards based on a study that explores relative prices,
adjusted by the exchange rate, on more than 168 commodities over four years (1985,
1990, 1993, 1996)
Abstract
Complete
report (PDF file - 278K, 46 pages)
Source : The
Daily, Statistics Canada
American
Statistical Links
Welfare
Dependence in the U.S. in 2008 Indicators
of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2008 Complete report: - Indicators of Dependence include : Degree of Dependence - Receipt of Means-Tested Assistance and Labor Force Attachment - Rates of Receipt of Means-Tested Assistance - Rates of Participation in Means-Tested Assistance Programs - Multiple Program Receipt - Dependence Transitions - Program Spell Duration - Welfare Spell Duration with No Labor Force Attachment - Long-Term Receipt - Events Associated with the Beginning and Ending of Program Spells - includes longitudinal and current caseload and expenditure data for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the Food Stamp Program and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). In addition, you'll find dozens of tables and charts showing predictors and risk factors associated with welfare receipt, such as : Poverty Rates - Deep Poverty Rates - Experimental Poverty Measures - Poverty Spells - Child Support - Food Insecurity - Lack of Health Insurance - Labor Force Attachment - Employment among the Low-Skilled - Earnings of Low-Skilled Workers - Educational Attainment - High School Dropout Rates - Adult Alcohol and Substance Abuse - Adult and Child Disability - Births to Unmarried Women/Teens - much more...
Program Data Earlier annual reports - back to 1997 Source: Complementary report from HHS: Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families Program (TANF) : Complete report: Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families Program (TANF) : Source: Canadian reports
about welfare to Parliament: Under the Canada Assistance Plan ("CAP", 1966-1996), the federal Department of Health and Welfare was required by law to table, in the House of Commons, an annual report on the operation of welfare programs and social services in Canada, in the same manner as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services presents annual reports on welfare dependence to Congress. In April 1996, a block fund called the Canada Health and Social Transfer (CHST) replaced CAP's 50-50 cost-sharing as the statutory mechanism for determining federal contributions to provincial/territorial welfare programs. [ See A History of the Health and Social Transfers] Neither the CHST nor its successor, the Canada Social Transfer (since April 2004), contains rules regarding the production of reports about welfare for tabling and discussion in the Parliament of Canada. In fact, the last national public report about welfare in Canada that was tabled and discussed in the House of Commons was the final CAP Annual Report for 1995-96. In my view, that's not much accountability for a program of this magnitude. The CST will cost the Canadian taxpayer almost $11 billion in 2009-10 in cash transfers alone, all without any debate or even discussion in the House of Commons. Because the CST is a block fund, and because it covers post-secondary education, early learning and childcare as well as welfare and social services, it's no longer possible to calculate how much each province and territory receives annually from Ottawa specifically earmarked for welfare. That's why you won't see any Canadian equivalent to Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress in the near future. That, and the fact that there doesn't appear to be any political will by the ruling federal party to support provincial-territorial programs of last resort at this time. Related reading from Finance Canada: Federal
Transfers to Provinces and Territories - updated January 2009 |
AgeSource/AgeStats
Worldwide
http://www.aarpinternational.org/database/
The
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
covers aging and aging-related topics quite well, and this website is one of their
many compelling initiatives. The databases, AgeSource and AgeStats, on AARP's
international website are designed to "facilitate the international exchange
of policy and program-relevant information in aging." Under the "Aging
Everywhere" tab is an interactive map that allows the visitor to read "Country
Profiles" as well as read articles about a region selected from the map.
A "Comparative Data Search" can also be done by clicking on the link
above the map. There are multiple ways to search the information in the databases.
On the left hand menu visitors can explore by topic or by region. Some of the
topics include "Aging & Society", "Economic Retirement &
Security", "Livable Communities" and "Long-Term Care".
Searching for a particular topic can be accomplished by using the keyword search
box in the middle of the page. The search can be further limited by deciding which
databases to search, and by information type, geographic coverage, and language.
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Economic
Indicators (posted Dec. 12/08)
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/indicators/
Both
scholars and those with a penchant for statistics will want to bookmark this fine
website created and maintained by the federal government. The site provides monthly
compilations of economic indicators covering prices, wages, production, business
activity, purchasing power, credit, money, and Federal finance. Visitors can use
the search engine to type in their desired terms, or they can browse every month
from January 1998 forward via a series of drop down tabs. For those who might
be looking for more specific data, the "Search Tips" feature is quite
useful. The site also contains links to the Federal Reserve Archival System for
Economic Research (FRASER), which contains economic indicators back to 1948. Overall,
the site will be a real boon to those looking for high quality, accurate information
regarding current and past economic trends and patterns in the United States.
World
Health Organization: Health Economics (posted Dec. 12/08)
http://www.who.int/topics/health_economics/en/
The
World Health Organization (WHO) has created this site to provide the general public
with high-quality information about their various research initiatives and reports
related to the field of health economics. Given the nature of the WHO's mission,
the work focuses on key challenges facing global health financing, with particular
attention paid to healthcare systems in the developing world. The materials here
include a nice fact sheet that provides a global overview of current spending
on health care, along with links to related sites that deal with health financing
policy and national healthcare systems. In the "Related Links" area,
visitors can browse on over to a specialized site dedicated to the health economics
of the European Union.
Gapminder
http://www.gapminder.org/
In
London, riders on the Tube are reminded to "Mind the Gap". On the Gapminder
website, visitors are reminded to mind a variety of gaps, whether they be in income
inequality or quality of health care. This rather absorbing website was created
as a non-profit venture to promote "sustainable global development and achievement
of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding
of statistics and other information." The site makes use of Trendanalyzer
software to offer visualizations related to questions that include "Which
country has the best teeth in the world?" and "Who gets what: Farm subsidies".
Visitors can find such information under the "Latest News" area, and
they can also take advantage of the videos, "Gapcasts", and world charts
offered here. The "Gapcasts" are quite good, and they cover carbon emissions,
public services, and globalization. Also, if visitors have their own set of statistical
indicators they can create their own unique Gapminder-like bubble graph on their
website. It's a powerful tool, and one that might be important for other non-profits,
think tanks, educators, and students.
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Income,
Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007 From the U.S. Census Bureau: Household
Income Rises, Poverty Rate Unchanged, Meanwhile, the nation’s official poverty rate in 2007 was 12.5 percent, not statistically different from 2006. There were 37.3 million people in poverty in 2007, up from 36.5 million in 2006. The number of people without health insurance coverage declined from 47 million (15.8 percent) in 2006 to 45.7 million (15.3 percent) in 2007. These findings are contained in the report Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007. The data were compiled from information collected in the 2008 Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC). Also released today were income, poverty and earnings data from the 2007 American Community Survey (ACS) for all states and congressional districts, as well as for metropolitan areas, counties, cities and American Indian/Alaska Native areas of 65,000 population or more. Complete report: Income,
Poverty, and Health Insurance ----------------------- Related reports from the Census Bureau: Income
Statistics - includes links to all stats sources mentioned in the above
news release and more Poverty
Statistics - incl. highlights, graphs and tables Health
insurance coverage data - incl. highlights, graphs
and tables |
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What
are good sources of information on basic trends in poverty, welfare and related
issues in America?
Source:
Institute
for Research on Poverty (IRP)
[University
of Wisconsin-Madison ]
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FedStats - The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies
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Demography/Population
Statistics - links to over 50 websites that offer American and international
population and demographic statistics
Source:
Librarians'
Index to the Internet
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The
US Social Statistics Briefing Room
- incl. Crime Statistics - Demographic
Statistics [incl. population, income, poverty] - Education Statistics - Health
Statistics
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From the U.S. Census Bureau:
Census
Bureau Poverty Page
- includes links to : * Poverty Home * Overview
*What's new * Publications * Definitions * Poverty Thresholds * Poverty Data Sources
* Current Poverty Data * Microdata Access * Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates
* History of the Poverty Measure * Poverty Measurement Studies and Alternative
Measures * Related Sites * FAQ
Links
to Related Sites
Find other agencies or organizations which provide
Poverty Measurement Research
Census Bureau Income Page - incl. links to : * What's New * Income Main * Overview * Reports * Definitions * Guidance about the Sources * How Income Data is Collected * Micro Data Access * Related Topics * FAQ * Current and historical income data
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Statistical
Resources on the Web - from the University of Michigan Documents Center
Includes links to a wide range of statistical sites, mainly American but
with some international content.
- includes : Agriculture - Foreign Governments
- Statistical Agencies - Foreign Trade - U.S. Imports and Exports - Comprehensive
Subjects Directories - Health - Cost of Living - Price Indexes and Comparative
Costs - Housing - Homelessness - Demographics (Population, Social, Economic Characteristics,
Poverty) - Labor (Labor Force, Occupations, Salaries) - Economics - Military -
Education - Politics - Science - Environment - Sociology (Children, Crime, Elderly,
Immigration, Refugees) - Finance and Currency - Transportation - Foreign Economics
- International Sources - and more...
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EconStats
http://www.econstats.com/index.htm
For anyone looking for a vast cornucopia of economic statistics culled from all over the world, they need look no further than the EconStats website. The homepage is a bit visually cluttered, but one couldn't ask for better and more complete data, as visitors can quickly access a wide range of economic data from the United States, such as information about inflation, unemployment levels, productivity, new factory orders, and the price of crude oil. The homepage also contains links to economic data from Canada, Britain, Germany, the European Union, France, Italy, Russia, and China. On the right-hand side of the page, visitors can click through to interest rates for dozens of countries, check in on various stock markets, and look up commodity and futures prices. Those individuals looking for quick help with pressing questions can post queries to the "Econ Chat" section of the homepage.
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Global
Distribution of Poverty
For policymakers and academics alike, having
access to information about the global distribution of poverty is crucial. Based
at the Earth Institute at Columbia University, The Poverty Mapping Project at
The Center for International Earth Science Information Network is a very fine
resource for anyone interested in this subject. Understandably, the site provides
access to dozens of maps which document the geographic and biophysical conditions
of where the poor live. In the "Maps" section, visitors can look over
300 poverty maps offered at a number of spatial scales. Visitors will also want
to peruse their nice publication, "Where the Poor Are: An Atlas of Poverty",
which includes information about how some of this data has been used in poverty
interventions. Persons looking for data for their own research will want to consider
downloading the subnational and national poverty data sets that are made available
here. Overall, it's a well-designed site and one which can be used in a variety
of settings.
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Global
Social Change Reports
Excellent resources - well worth a visit for
anyone interested in major world demographic, social, political and communication
trends over the last several decades.
-
includes the following resources (among many others):
--- Basic
Guide to the World: Quality of Life Throughout the World (PDF file
- 228K, 34 pages) - December 2005
This describes world and regional trends
in infant mortality rate, gdp per capita, literacy, freedom, and world and regional
life satisfaction. An html version http://gsociology.icaap.org/report/cqual.html
is a brief review of global quality of life, major trends and regional comparisons.
---
Basic Guide
to the World: Population changes and trends, 1960 to 2003 (PDF file
- 183K, 11 pages) - October 2005
Presents graphs and tables showing trends
in world, regional population.
--- Basic
Guide to the World: Economic Growth, 1970 to 2007 (PDF file - 140K,
16 pages) May 2007
Brief descriptions of trends in economic growth, world regional
and for selected countries.
--- Major
demographic trends - summary of main demographic trends of the past several
decades; changes in population size, population growth, infant mortality rates,
age distributions.
--- Major
social trends - summary of main socio-demographic trends of the past several
decades; changes in urbanization, education and ethnolinguistic fractionalization.
---
much more (major political trends, major economic trends, major technological
trends: communication, energy production and consumption, context of change in
the 21st century
- also includes free datasets, free online statistical tools,
useful public domain and other free to use data, etc.
Source:
The
Global Social Change Research Project
- links to online books, manuals
and guides about evaluation and social research methods, such as surveys, observations,
and others
- links to sites about data quality, statistical analysis, and free
software such as statistical, office suites, spreadsheets and more.
-
links to many sites with research or data about globalization, democracy and freedom
and other related topics.
Inflation & Consumer Spending
- Consumer Price Index • Inflation Calculator • Contract Escalation
• Producer Price Indexes • Import/Export Price Indexes • Consumer
Expenditures • Price Index Research Employment
& Unemployment - National Employment • National Unemployment Rate
• State and Local Employment • State and Local Unemployment Rates •
Mass Layoffs • Employment Projections • Job Openings and Labor Turnover
• Employment by Occupation • Longitudinal Studies • State and County
Employment • Time Use • Business Employment Dynamics • Employment
Research Also
includes Latest Numbers : CPI - Unemployment Rate - Payroll Employment
- Average Hourly Earnings - PPI - ECI - Productivity -
U.S. Import Price Index |
United
States Census 2000
The definitive source. Everything you wanted to
know about the 2000 American Census. Lots of info and links...
- incl. links
to the following:
Latest
U.S. Economic Indicators - including Household
Income and Poverty
Products - Outreach
- News- Plans
Poverty
Measurement and Statistics
Income
Measurement and Statistics
Census
2000 Data Access and Use
This private company website presents
US Census data and related material. Updated weekly, the Website focuses on news
about Census data releases; descriptions of Census 2000 data products; linkage
of Census 2000 data with data from other decennial programs, most notably the
1990 census and other federal statistical data; Census 2000 data access issues
in other federal agencies; and methodological resources and information concerning
Census data and use.
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Report for Social Sciences
International
Statistical Agencies (U.S. Census Bureau)
From Albania to Yugoslavia,
direct links to the national statistical agency, e.g., Canada = Statistics Canada
Population
Reference Bureau (PRB) (U.S. - world)
Providing timely
and objective population information
The Population Reference Bureau
is the leader in providing timely and objective information on U.S. and international
population trends and their implications.
PRB Web Sites.
PRB has five
Web sites that provide the latest and most accurate data on a range of topics
within the field of population, health, and nutrition.
The
main PRB Web siteis your first stop for population information.
MEASURE
Communication promotes wider dissemination and increased use of information
on population, health, and nutrition for planning and decisionmaking in developing
countries.
PopNet is a comprehensive
directory of population-related Web sites-by topic or keyword, by organization,
or through a world regions map. All 200 countries in the World Population Data
Sheet are indexed.
AmeriStat
includes a series of charts, graphs, and brief narratives describing demographic
trends in five subject areas including marriage and family, education, and poverty
and income.
The Center for Public Information on Population Research explains
and publicizes the findings of population research and their implications.
Center
for Public Information on Population Research
The Center for Public
Information on Population Research at the Population Reference Bureau explains
and publicizes the findings of population research and their implications.
2003
World Population Data Sheet
Press
Release
July
22, 2003
"The 2003 World Population Data Sheet has the most up-to-date
demographic data and estimates for all the countries and major regions of the
world. The rundown provides a look at regional and national contrasts in age structure,
population growth, life expectancy, income, and other determinants that mark today’s
bifurcated world population growth."
2003
Data Sheet Highlights
Complete
Data Sheet - mostly tables (PDF file - 162K, 14 pages)
Focus Areas:
Environment - HIV/AIDS - Population Trends - Reproductive Health
Topics:
Education - Employment - Family Planning - Fertility - Gender - Health - Income/Poverty
- Marriage/Family - Migration - Mortality - Older Population - Policy - Race/Ethnicity
- Urbanization - Youth - 2000 Census
Regions: Asia/Pacific - Europe
- Latin America - Middle East - North America - Sub-Saharan Africa
Sample Content:
Income/Poverty
: Articles, Datasheets, Reports
- includes pages of links to studies
about poverty from around the world
Traditional
Families Account for Only 7 Percent of U.S. Households
"Images
of the traditional family still dominate our televisions and magazines, but they
do not represent how most Americans live. In 2002, only 7 percent of all U.S.
households consisted of married couples with children in which onlythe
husband worked."
General
Social Survey (GSS)
The GSS is an almost annual, "omnibus," personal
interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research
Center (NORC) with James A. Davis and Tom W. Smith as principal investigators
(PIs). The first survey took place in 1972 and since then more than 35,000 respondents
have answered over 2500 different questions.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Institute
for Social Research(Ann Arbor)
- Asset
and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD)
- Panel
Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
- National
Election Studies (NES)
Roper Center (University of Connecticut)
National Center for Education Statistics
National Archives and Records Administration
Population Studies Center (University of Michigan)
Henry
A. Murray Research Center (Radclifffe College)
European and other International Links
Recent release from the United Nations Population Fund
The
State of World Population 2008
Reaching Common Ground:
Culture, Gender and
Human Rights (PDF - 2.5MB, 108 pages)
Contents :
* Overview
* Human Rights * Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality * Reproductive Health
and Reproductive Rights * Poverty, Inequality and Population * War, Gender Equality
and Women’s Empowerment *
Conclusions
New
report shows cultural sensitivity critical
to successful development strategies,
women's equality( (Word file - 86K, 2 pages)
12 November 2008
Press
Release
UNITED NATIONS, New York, 12 November 2008—Development strategies
that are sensitive to cultural values can reduce harmful practices against women
and promote human rights, including gender equality and women’s empowerment,
affirms The State of World Population 2008 report from UNFPA, the United Nations
Population Fund. Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights, launched
12 November 2008, reports that culture is a central component of successful development
of poor countries, and must be integrated into development policy and programming.
The report, which coincides with this year’s 60th anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, is based on the concept that the international human
rights framework has universal validity. Human rights express values common to
all cultures and protect groups as well as individuals. The report endorses culturally
sensitive approaches to development and to the promotion of human rights, in general,
and women’s rights, in particular.
Source:
Press
kit & Resources
* The Reports * Media Outreach * Feature Stories
* Contact Information * Graphs and Tables * Photographs
Source:
United
Nations Population Fund
The United Nations Population Fund is an international
development agency
that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to
enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity.
Related link:
The State of World Population
2008
http://www.unfpa.org/swp/2008/en/
In
November 2008, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) put out its State of
World Population book, along with a Youth Supplement, and both are available in
their entirety on the UNFPA website. The book is entitled "Reaching Common
Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights" and the Youth Supplement is entitled
"Generation of Change: Young People and Culture". This website offers
so much worthwhile information to the visitor, in part because the entire 108
pages can be downloaded as a pdf by clicking on "Download PDF" under
Resources on the left side of the page. The information in each of the nine chapters
is eminently readable, extremely heart wrenching, and definitely eye-opening.
However, the book does offer hope, as it includes the considerable successes by
the UNFPA, which were achieved by being culturally sensitive to the traditions
and beliefs of the groups with which they were working. To read the stories from
the Youth Supplement, scroll down slightly and choose, from on the left, one of
the young people's stories, such as "Grita", "Tsehay", or
"Seif". Child marriage, females playing in male sports, becoming a Vietnamese
hip-hop sensation, youth in politics, are all examples of topics found among these
youth's stories. Visitors should not miss checking out the Photo Gallery, which
can be accessed by scrolling down to the middle of the page, and clicking "View,"
located on the left side of the page. The line "there is laughter every day
in the terrible streets of Calcutta," from a Jack Gilbert poem comes to mind
upon seeing these photographs.
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UNdata
- "A World of Information"
[ Link added October 27/08 ]
The United
Nations (UN) website contains a tremendous amount of data, and for some new users
(and even those who are more experienced), it may be a bit overwhelming. Recently,
the UN created this fine website designed to assist those who might need a bit
of assistance with this whole process. On the UN Data site, visitors can simply
type in their search terms, look over a list of popular searches, and even take
a look at their "News" section, which offers up a selection of helpful
recent additions. Further down on the homepage, visitors can look through the
"Database Coverage" area. Here they can take advantage of some specially
culled statistics, including data sets related to the World Health Organization
(WHO), refugees, industrial commodities, and children. The site is rounded out
by a "Glossary" section, which offers a nice summary of each term that
might be encountered while utilizing the site.
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-
includes links to:
* Indicator databases
- Key Global Indicators - Millennium Development Goals - Gender Info 2007 - Indicators
on Women and Men - The State of the World’s Children 2008 - ECE Database
The
list of topics covered includes:
* Education * Employment
* Energy * Environment * Food and Agriculture * Health * Human Development *
Industry * Information and Communication Technology * National Accounts* Population
* Refugees * Trade * Tourism
Source:
United
Nations
From the United Nations Population Fund:
SPEED,
SCALE OF URBAN GROWTH WILL REQUIRE ‘REVOLUTION IN THINKING’, WARNS UNFPA
Asian,
African Cities to Swell by Equivalent of one China, One U.S. Combined
(Word file - 49K, 2 pages)
News Release
UNITED
NATIONS, New York, 27 June 2007—Humanity will have to undergo a “revolution
in thinking” in order to deal with the doubling of urban populations in Africa
and Asia by 2030, warns UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. In a new report
released today, The State of World Population 2007: Unleashing the Potential of
Urban Growth, the organization maintains that over 30 years, the population of
African and Asian cities will double, adding 1.7 billion people—more than
the populations of China and the United States combined.
Complete report:
HTML
version
PDF
version (2.8MB, 108 pages)
Press Kit & Resources - includes links to the main report and Growing Up Urban (Youth Supplement), press summary, press releases and much more...
Country-by-Country
data
Use the drop-down menu to find data on urbanization for 78 countries
in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean with over
7 million people. Data is presented for each showing changes in the urban population
starting in 1950 and projected through 2030.
The data sets reflect:
* Percentage
of rural and urban dwellers compared to the total population
* Percentage
of the total population living in urban areas
* Annual rate of change of the
urban population
* Urban population by size of settlement (only for countries
with cities of more than 750,000 people)
Data sets are presented in Excel files.
Use the tabs at the bottom of the page to navigate from one data set to another.
Vancouver:
Prosperity and poverty
make for uneasy bedfellows in world’s most ‘liveable’
city (Word file - 46K, 3 pages)
"(...) As the 2007 State of
World Population report: Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth points out,
this is the kind of price that a city—any city—will pay if it fails
to support, plan for or house an expanding population of the urban poor. What
makes the Downtown Eastside so different is that it is located in one of the most
prosperous cities in one of the world’s most prosperous countries. "
Multimedia
Presentation
Ordering Information
Previous
Years' Reports - back to 1997, focusing on a different theme each year
Related links:
State
of World Population 2007 (site review)
In terms of human settlement
patterns, the world’s population is undeniably becoming more and more urbanized.
By 2008, over half of the world’s population will be living in urban areas,
and by 2030, it is estimated that 5 billion people will live in urbanized areas.
This is but one of the aspects of the world’s population that is discussed
within the interactive pages of the 2007 State of World Population report. Released
in June 2007, the report can be viewed in its entirety on this site, and it is
available in English, Spanish, French, Arabic, and Russian. The website also includes
a youth supplement, titled “Growing Up Urban”. Here, visitors can learn
about the experiences of young people in Taijin, China, Mumbai, Caior, and San
Salvador. A multimedia presentation is also made available here, and visitors
can listen to those who have recently moved to cities talk about their experiences,
opportunities, and challenges.
Source:
United
Nations Population Fund
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Google
Search Results Links - always current results!
Using the following
search terms (without the quote marks):
"State of World Population 2007"
Web
search results page
News search results
page
Blog Search Results page
Source:
Google.ca
NationMaster |
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From the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) :
OECD
Online OECD.Stat
Extracts Information
by Country - links to country information for all OECD countries Information
by Country : Canada --- from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD) Source: |
Also from OECD:
OECD
in Figures: Statistics on the Member Countries, 2003 Edition
(PDF file - 830K, 97 pages)
"Released recently by the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), this important fact-book presents
97-pages of valuable statistics about the 30 member countries that constitute
the membership of the OECD. The first 76 pages are largely devoted to presenting
tables of statistical tables on key themes that include economic growth and performance,
employment, trade, development aid, research and development, science and technology,
and education expenditures. Pages 77 to 91 present tables of statistical information
relating to consumer prices, health spending, road fatalities, life expectancy,
investment flows, and consumer prices. For each table, there is a brief explanation
of how the data was gathered and analyzed, along with a short discussion of what
each table indicates. For persons working in the field of development studies
or those with an interest in the performance measures of OECD countries, this
document will be quite useful."
[Reviewed by The
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- incl. stats
on : Agriculture and Food - Development - Education and Skills - Employment -
Energy - Enterprise, Industry and Services - Environment - Finance and Investment
- General Economics - Health - Insurance and Pensions - International Migration
- National Accounts - Nuclear Energy - Science and Information Technology - Sustainable
Development - Taxation - Territorial Economy - Trade -Transport
Health
at a Glance: OECD Indicators 2003
"...brings together the
latest comparable data and trends concerning health status and risks, the activity
and resources of health care systems, as well as health expenditure and financing
across the 30 OECD countries. It contains a larger set of indicators than the
previous edition. Overall, more than 30 indicators are presented.
NOTE: You
have to purchase the book OECD
Health Data 2003 (available on line at SourceOECD or on CD-ROM from the OECD’s
online bookshop) for the detailed data
- incl. info about Canada in eight charts
covering a range of topics, from health expenditure as a percentage of GDP (2001)
and health expenditure by source of funding (2000) to acute care beds per 1000
population (2000) and increasing obesity rates among the adult population...
OECD
Health Data 2003 - Frequently asked data - 20 tables offered as samples
of variables that can be found in OECD Health Data 2003, including data from the
1st Internet update (July 9, 2003).
- incl. country comparisons of life expectancy,
infant mortality, expenditures on health, acute care beds / hospital discharges
per 1000 population, alcohol and tobacco consumption, % of population 65 years
old and over, and more
Eurostat
"Eurostat’s
mission is to provide the European Union with a high-quality statistical information
service"
Eurostat
- Your key to European statistics - good historical and contextual overview
of Eurostat
European Union Statistics
on Social Exclusion - Eurostat
May 2003
(Two separate PDF files,
each 8 pages, approx 300K in size)
"[T]he Laeken European Council in December
2001 formally adopted a first set of 18 common statistical indicators in the field
of social inclusion. These indicators should be considered as a consistent whole,
reflecting a balanced consideration of EU social concerns. They cover four important
dimensions of social cohesion: financial poverty, employment, health and
education
- highlighting the multi-dimensional nature of social inclusion."
Part
1 includes:
- Common indicators for social Inclusion - 15% of EU citizens
at risk of poverty - Poverty risk is a relative Concept - Median at-risk-of-poverty
gap - Persistent risk of poverty - Changing the risk-of-poverty threshold over
time - Some countries have a more equal distribution of income than others - Re-distributive
effect of social transfers
Part
2 includes:
- Agreement reached on a set of common indicators - Employment
and social inclusion - Long term unemployment in the EU - Long-term often means
very long-term - Many people live in jobless households - Regional cohesion -
19% leave school with low qualifications - Improving educational attainment levels
- High life expectancy - Wide variation of health status by income
50
years of figures on Europe (PDF file - 1.9MB, 156 pages)
Data 1952-2001
"The
pocketbook '50 years of figures on Europe' invites its readers on a statistical
journey through the last 50 years of European history. It helps to compare data
for a broad range of indicators across individual countries, evaluate the effects
of successive enlargements as well as developments in between. The data are illustrated
by graphs. The pocketbook has been written for the occasion of Eurostat's 50th
anniversary in May 2003.
The figures cover most of the areas Eurostat provides
data for: ·Area and population ·Economy ·Employment and
labor costs ·Sectors of the economy ·Transport ·Tourism ·External
trade
The
World in Figures
"The World in Figures table package contains
28 Excel tables of country-specific structural data on all the countries of the
world. The number of countries is 241 and themes 248 [emphasis added].
The data can be found easily by means of a separate index. With the exception
of the first geographical table and the table of cities, the basic structure is
the same in all tables. The last rows of each table provide sum data on EU countries
and the whole world."
Excellent resource for international statistical
analysis!
- 248 themes organized under the following subjects : Agriculture,
forestry and fishing - Culture and mass media - Demography - Education and research
- Energy - Enterprises - Environment - Finance - Health and medical care - Housing
and construction - Income, wealth and taxation - Industry - Justice and crime
- Labour - Living conditions - National accounts - Politics - Prices - Private
consumption and cost of living - Public finance - Social security - Trade - Transport
and communications - Travel and tourism.
NOTE: You can download a free
copy of the Excel Viewer from a link on the home page of this site if you need
it to view the Excel files.
Source : Library
of Statistics Finland
World
Bank Data on Poverty
- includes : Trends in regional indicators (Income
poverty, Social indicators) - Global Poverty Monitoring website - Poverty Monitoring
Database - DAPeR (Data for the Analysis of Poverty Reduction) - Regional and country
level indicators (income poverty, inequality, World Income Inequality Database,
GNI per capita, Country information sheets on health, nutrition, population and
poverty) - Millennium Development Goals - Social indicators - Household surveys
- Participatory poverty studies - Country data sets (India Poverty Project) -
Free Poverty Datasets - Poverty Mapping - Poverty data analysis tools
Source
: World Bank Group
International
Aging Statistics
U.S. Administration on Aging
The links to
Internet sites on this page point to demographic data as well as reports addressing
issues and emerging global developments created by the aging of their populations.
- includes links to over 90 recent statististical resources focusing on seniors
from the following organizations : U.S. Bureau of the Census - United Nations
- World Health Organization - Pan American Health Organization. Also includes
web site directories of demographic resources and country demographics
See
also : International Organizations
and Activities
Source U.S. Administration
on Aging
United
Nations Statistics Division
The United Nations Statistics Division
provides a wide range of statistical outputs and services for producers and users
of statistics worldwide. By increasing the global availability and use of official
statistics, this work facilitates national and international policy formulation,
implementation and monitoring.
Millennium
Indicators (United Nations Statistics Division)
- socioeconomic indicators
for countries covering the period 1985-2000. These indicators are being used to
monitor implementation of the goals and targets of the United Nations Millennium
Declaration.
United Nations Millennium Declaration
United
Nations Population Division
- United
Nations Population Information Network (POPIN) - Here, you'll find all
kinds of world population information, including many links by country to government
and other organizations involved in population studies.
- Population
Database - estimates of population trends covering the period 1950-2000,
and four projection variants for the period 2001-2050. Data is provided for world
regions as well as for individual countries.
World
Population Day - July 11
"Each year for the past 16 years, UNFPA
offices in all parts of the world have raised awareness about important population
and development issues by finding creative ways to publicize World Population
Day."
Source:
United
Nations Population Fund
The United Nations Population
Fund (UNFPA) is “an international development agency that promotes the right
of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity.”
Within their general mission, the UNFPA also promotes a variety of public health
initiatives, such as HIV/AIDS prevention and education programs and the reduction
of maternal and infant mortality. With a pleasing visual layout and a series of
tabs for each thematic area, even first-time visitors should have no problem finding
their way around. Visitors can get a sense of their mission by looking over some
of these tabs, which include sections titled “Making Motherhood Safer”
and “Promoting Gender Equality”. Within each section, visitors can read
a basic précis of their general policy approach to dealing with each population
issue and also learn about their collaborative efforts with different non-governmental
organizations around the globe."
Reviewed by:
The
Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2006.
State
of the World Population 2002
December 2002
- incl. Population
Issues - Meeting Development Goals - Improving Reproductive Health - Supporting
Adolescents and Youth - Preventing HIV/AIDS - Promoting Gender Equality - Securing
Essential Supplies - Assisting in Emergencies - Advancing Sustainable Development
- Building Support
Source : United
Nations Population Fund
OECD
Statistics
Browse: OECD Home - About
OECD - By Topic - By Country - By Department
Find: Statistics - Publications
& Documents - News Releases
Resources for:
Journalists - Government Officials - NGOs & Civil Society
OnLine Services:
OnLine Bookshop - OnLine Library - E-mail Alerts - MyOECD
Purchasing
Power Parities (PPPs)
PPPs are currency conversion rates that both
convert to a common currency and equalise the purchasing power of different currencies.
In other words, they eliminate the differences in price levels between countries
in the process of conversion. This site has been set up as a means of providing
information on work undertaken by the OECD and Eurostat on PPPs to as wide an
audience as possible, including extracts from the OECD's latest publication, statistics
and the latest research, reports and papers relating to PPPs.
Council
of European Social Science Data Archives (CESSDA)
CESSDA promotes
the acquisition, archiving and distribution of electronic data for social science
teaching and research in Europe. Use the clickable maps to get to the social science
data archives of 16 European
countries or 14 North American
states and provinces (links to data libraries from UBC [British Columbia]
to Carleton [Ontario] universities).
If you're looking for links to international
social science data, this is an excellent launchpad.
CROP - International Social Science Council: Comparative Research Programme on Poverty
Demographic
and Health Surveys - Providing Information for Informed Decisions in Population,
Health and Nutrition
International
Data Base (Demographic and socio-economic data)
HIV/AIDS
Surveillance Data Base
International
Federation of Data Organisations
Social
Sciences Data Collection
Social
Science Data Archives
Council
of European Social Science Data (CESSDA)
CESSDA promotes the acquisition,
archiving and distribution of electronic data for social science teaching and
research in Europe. Use the clickable maps to get to the social science data archives
of 16 European countries
or 14 North American states
and provinces (links to data libraries from UBC [British Columbia] to Carleton
[Ontario] universities).
If you're looking for links to international social
science data, this is an excellent launchpad.
Luxembourg
Income Study
The Luxembourg Income Study is an ongoing cooperative
research project (started in 1983) with a membership that includes 25 countries
on four continents: Europe, America, Asia and Oceania
Luxembourg
Employment Study - A database of labour force surveys from 16 countries,
including Canada (not updated since 2002)
Internet
Guide to Demography and Population Studies - from the Australian National
University (Canberra)
Links to hundreds of sites with information about population
and demographics around the world, including Canada.
[See alsoLINKS TO AMERICAN RESEARCH]
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