The US Census Bureau has just released new data: “on a wide range of socioeconomic, housing and demographic characteristics for communities across the nation, part of an ongoing statistical portrait of America. Among dozens of topics covered in the survey are educational attainment, commute times, housing characteristics, occupation, language ability and various other social, economic […]
The Asia Foundation has released its fifth survey of the Afghan people – Afghanistan in 2009: a survey of the Afghan people. From the Asia Foundation website: “Aiming to provide the Afghan citizenry,policy makers and influential actors in government, civil society, and the international community with useful, actionable information, the 2009 Survey of the Afghan […]
The World Bank has just launched a new website that features a “publicly accessible tool for data visualization,” called the Data Visualizer. “The time series used in Data Visualizer is a subset of 2009 World Development Indicators database. It contains 49 indicators for 209 countries and 18 aggregates from 1960-2007. Data includes social, economic, financial, […]
The Yearbook presents a statistical portrait of life in the regions of the European Union’s member states, candidate countries and the EFTA countries. A broad set of regional data is presented on the following themes: population, European cities, labour market, gross domestic product, household accounts, structural business statistics, information society, science, technology and innovation, education, […]
From National Academies Press website: “Hidden Costs of Energy defines and evaluates key external costs and benefits that are associated with the production, distribution, and use of energy, but not reflected in market prices. In aggregate, the damage estimates presented here are substantial, and reflect damages from air pollution associated with electricity generation, motor vehicle […]
The EU online bookstore has traditionally been a “for fee” site, but has just now added a very large chunk of free materials to its database, including “all official EU publications since 1952.” Free publications are clearly labelled and are available for immediate PDF download.
The Australian government has just launched a free website offering up a wide array of government datasets. Topics include business, community, education, geography, transportation, society, safety and the environment. You can search the database or browse by category or latest added.
The Book of Odds is an online statistical encyclopedia which will launch October 14, 2009. Although not specifically about government publications the topics do include statistics about politics as well as health, accidents, and relationships. Here are some examples: The average American is more likely to live without ever visiting a dentist than to live […]
The EIA has just launched a new consumer information site called “Energy Explained, Your Guide to Understanding Energy.” The site provides a wealth of information on energy: consumption and production statistics, energy units and conversion calculators, energy and the environment, and renewable/non-renewable energy sources. Also provides some information/statistics on international oil production, consumption and reserves. […]
Eurostat, the EU’s statistical agency, has just released its 2009 issue of Europe in Figures. This is freely available on-site as a Pdf download and “presents a comprehensive selection of statistical data on Europe.” It is also produced and disseminated in print. UBC Library has print copies of this annual publication from 1995 – 2008, […]