http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/foreign/archive/tags/Statistics/default.aspxTags: StatisticsenCommunityServer 2007.1 SP1 (Build: 30415.43)http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/foreign/archive/2008/05/30/undata-a-new-portal-for-un-statistical-data.aspxFri, 30 May 2008 16:08:00 GMT3dba5dbf-cc88-412d-a5e1-dc96318a2d17:189Evelyn Ma0http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/foreign/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=189http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/foreign/archive/2008/05/30/undata-a-new-portal-for-un-statistical-data.aspx#comments<p>The United Nations Statistics Division <a class="" href="http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm">(UNSD)</a>, the statistical arm of&nbsp;the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs <a class="" href="http://www.un.org/esa/desa/">(DESA)</a>, has launched a new web-based data service <a class="" href="http://data.un.org/">UNdata.</a>&nbsp; Instead of clicking through data sets scattered in the websites of different UN agencies, users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system&nbsp;through a single entry point.&nbsp;</p> <p>The new portal provides useful features such as Country Profiles, Advanced Search and Glossaries to aid research. Currently, there are 14 databases and 6 glossaries containing over 55 million data points and covering a whole range of statistics&nbsp;relating to&nbsp;Population, Industry, Energy and the Environment, Trade and National Accounts. The <a class="" href="http://data.un.org/wiki/MainPage.ashx">UNdata wiki</a> provides links to the sources&#39; homepages and includes information about the&nbsp;methodology by which data sets are collected.</p><img src="http://blogs.law.yale.edu/aggbug.aspx?PostID=189" width="1" height="1">StatisticsUnited NationsResearch