For the third year in a row, Foreign Policy magazine (published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) has published its Failed States Index. An interactive interface to all three Failed State Indexes and details about the methodology of the survey can be found at the Fund for Peace web site. Read Foreign Policy magazine,…
In September 2007 the following cultures and 40,000 pages will be added to the new eHRAF World Cultures site: Gusii, Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Lur, Aleut, Sea Islanders, Yapese, Tongans, and Jivaro. On September 1, 2007, a beta version of the new eHRAF interface will be available. Try it and let me know what you…
A new statistical report from the United Nations: High Commissioner for Refugees Report: “2006 Global Trends: Refugees, Asylum-seekers, Returnees, Internally Displaced and Stateless Persons,” (June 2007, .pdf format, 15p.). http://www.unhcr.org/statistics/STATISTICS/4676a71d4.pdf More statistics and data can be found from the UN Refugee Agency, on the UNHCR Statistics web site, including their annual statistical publication, the Statistical…
Global Development Finance is a two-volume annual report from the World Bank. The first volume, usually titled “Analysis and Statistical Appendix” is available online from the World Bank web site, free for anyone to read. The second volume, “Summary and Country Tables” contains country data in time series back to 1970. The Carleton library subscribes…
The IPUMS-International series now includes 17 new samples from Argentina, Hungary, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Portugal, and Rwanda. Back in December, 16 new samples were added for Belarus, Cambodia, Greece, the Philippines, Romania, Spain and Uganda. For more information about using these data from the University of Minnesota Population Center, see the data releases web…
Local data (i.e. state-level or county-level) can be found from the national source, in this case the BEA, or from a local demographer’s office. Local Source County Level Income Data for Minnesota, 2005 The state demographer’s office of Minnesota prepares and publishes reports and data subsets like this one for the state of Minnesota. When…
North American Jewish Data Bank This data archive provides access to data to researchers who sign up for an account and agree to the user agreement. Included in the archive are: “The Data Bank archives and makes available electronically questionnaires, reports and data files from the National Jewish Population Surveys (NJPS) of 1971, 1990 and…
I learned today that discontinued series of the World Development Indicators, WDI, are dropped from the web version. That is, even though data may have been available for a range of years for a particular series, if data are no longer being collected, you will not see them in the online database. What is a…
Castro Speech Database The LANIC (Latin American Network Information Center) web site hosts this excellent free resource. Researchers at the Radio Martà Program, part of the U.S. Information Agency, have digitized the speeches (translated into English) from the FBIS collection. Discursos e intervenciones del Comandante en Jefe Fidel Castro Ruz, Presidente del Consejo de Estado…
People frequently come to the library looking for the FBIS collection of translated foreign documents. It is a little tricky to navigate, so I’m posting some pointers here. What is it? Full explanation of the FBIS reports, JPRS reports and World News Connection from the University of Michigan Documents Center. Readex is the company that…