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Review/2001/5
- The World's Women 2000: Trends and
Statistics -
Courtesy United Nations Statistics Division - UNSD
Type, size and coverage dates:
The World's Women 2000 is a Statistical source-book and comprehensive
analysis of how women fare in different parts of the world. The
World's Women 2000: trends and statistics is the third
issue in the series of reports (the other two issued in 1991 and
1995) that looks at the status of women through the lens of statistical
data and analysis.
Subjects:
The report highlights the main findings of statistical analysis
on women's situation as compared to men's worldwide in a broad range
of fields including families, health, education, work, human rights
and politics.
Some important findings and
future directions by chapter are as follows:
Chapter 1 - Population
Chapter 2 - Women and men in families
Chapter 3 - Health
Chapter 4 - Education and communication
Chapter 5 - Work
Chapter 6 -Human rights and political decision-making
Global Statistical tables
include the following:
1.A - Population by sex and selected age group.
1.B - Selected population indicators.
2.A - Indicators on marriage and marital status.
2.B - Indicators on households and childbearing.
3.A - Life expectancy and infant mortality.
3.B - Indicators on HIV/AIDS, maternal care and maternal mortality.
4.A - Basic education and literacy.
4.B - Higher education and teaching staff.
5.A - Unemployment rate.
5.B - Part-time employment.
5.C - Maternity leave benefits, as of 1998.
5.D - Indicators of economic activity.
5.E - Percentage distribution of the labour force by status in
employment.
5.F - Women administrative and managerial workers.
6.A - Women in public life.
6.B - Year of ratification of CEDAW.
Sources
of Information:
The United Nations Statistics Division provides a wide range of
statistical outputs and services for producers and users
of statistics worldwide. The Division collects data through its
national as well as international links and the national statistical
publications and yearbooks.
Type of
literature:
Statistical Tables
Target users and use:
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.
The social indicatiors, main findings and future directions available
on this website, are useful not only for all UN Agencies, but also
for the researchers, students, NGOs and / or oerganizations active
in any field relevant to women.
Availability and
Updates:
Like many of the Division's databases, The
World's Women 2000: trends and statistics is also available on the
Internet via the World Wide Web as well as in print. It is a series
of reports appearing at irregular intervals. It has been placed
on internet for the first time on May 31, 2000. The update information
is not available.
Access:
The World's
Women 2000: Trends and Statistics
is available
on the internet and accessible through World Wide Web, on the URL: http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/ww2000/index.htm
. You can click on the url to get linked if your e-mail
software supports html and Bookmark the Website if you expect frequent
use in future.
Please visit the Web-site or come to the UN Common Library to consult
The World's Women 2000: Trends
and Statistics, through our Free
Internet Access Terminals. Otherwise, please feel free
to use Ask UNCOL,
our email-based electronic reference service, for further help or
to make database searches for you on the topic of your request and
send the search results via return email.
The World's Women 2000 has been made available
on the Internet for free public use by the courtesy of United Nations
Division of Statistics - UNSD.
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