Research tips for finding information on the United Nations and finding information from the Office of National Statistics and the UK Data Service.

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2. Segment 1: International Monetary Fund
Segment 2: World Bank
Segment 3: General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
Segment 4: Alternative / Critical Research on the Bretton
Woods Institutions
Segment 5: OECD
Segment 6: Bank of International Settlement
Segment 7: United Nations, Office of National Statistics, UK
Data Service
Online Research Induction
Segment Seven – United Nations, Office of National Statistics,
UK Data Service

3. • International Management
• International Political Economy
• International Business
• International Relations
Segment Seven – United Nations, Office of National Statistics,
UK Data Service
Online Research Induction for Students of

4. • providing information about statistics, reports, papers,
publications provided by
– the United Nations,
– the Office of National Statistics
– the UK Data Service
• enable students to find supportive arguments for essays,
assignments and discussions
The topic will be

5.  United Nations Statistics Department
 United Nations Statistics Commission
(www.un.org/en/development/progareas/statistics.shtml)
 Differentiate between
- Global Programs
- Regional Programs
United Nations
(http://www.un.org/en/)

6. Choose between five
different headings to
retrieve statistics

7.  United Nations Statistics Department
 Global Programs
• Official Statistics (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm)
Department of Economic and Social Affairs
• Trade and Investment Statistics (http://unctadstat.unctad.org/)
UN Conference on Trade and Development
• Global Urban Observatory (ww2.unhabitat.org/programmes/guo/)
UN Human Settlements Programme
• Office on Drugs and Crime (www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/Crime-Monitoring-
Surveys.html) Office on Drugs
and Crime
United Nations
(http://www.un.org/en/)

8. The following areas
might be of interest:
Statistical
Database
Publications

9. The Data Centre gives a
more general collection
of data while…
… this section
individualises
information on a
country-specific level

10.  United Nations Statistics Department
 Regional Programs
• Statistics (http://new.uneca.org/acs/home_acs.aspx)
Economic Commission for Africa
• Advancing Statistics for Development (http://www.unescap.org/stat/)
Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
• Statistics
Economic Commission for Europe
• Statistics and Economic Projections
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
• Statistics
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
United Nations
(http://www.un.org/en/)

11. Office of National Statistics (ONS)
(http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/index.html)
 largest independent producer of official statistics
 recognised national statistical institute for the UK
 responsible for collecting and publishing statistics related to
the economy, population and society at national, regional and
local levels
 Statistical data available by
 Browse by Theme
 Publications
 Data
 Release Calendar

12. Principle Global Indicators
(http://www.principalglobalindicators.org/default.aspx)
 established in 2008
 aim to coordinate statistical issues and data gaps highlighted by the global
crisis
 to strengthen data collection
 sub-division into five different areas of material:
 Principal Global Indicators
 Data Mapper
 Additional Data Sources
 Sectoral Transactions and Balance Sheets
 Cross Border Positions

13. Principle Global Indicators
(http://www.principalglobalindicators.org/default.aspx)
Principal Global Indicators (http://www.principalglobalindicators.org/default.aspx)
created by the inter-agency group on economic and financial statistics,
comprises the
 Bank for International Settlements (BIS) (http://www.bis.org/)
 European Central Bank (ECB) (http://www.ecb.int/home/html/index.en.html)
 Eurostat (http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home)
 International Monetary Fund (IMF, Chair) (http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm)
 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
(http://www.oecd.org/home/)
 United Nations (UN) (http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm)
 World Bank (WB) (http://www.worldbank.org/)

14. UK Data Service
(http://ukdataservice.ac.uk)
Annual Population Survey (http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=200002)
•combines data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and national boosts and contain
12 months of data and responses from 155,000 households and 360,000 people
•improves intercensal monitoring of key variables for a range of policy purposes.
British Social Attitudes (http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=200006)
•National Centre for Social Research survey tracks people's changing social, political
and moral attitudes
•informs the development of public policy
•over 3,000 respondents annually and questions repeated periodically
This section compiles
sets of diverse British
national statistics

15. UK Data Service
(http://ukdataservice.ac.uk)
Citizenship Survey (http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=200007)
•conducted seven times between 2001 and 2011 and designed to capture information
on community cohesion, civic engagement, race and faith, and volunteering
Crime Survey for England andWales (http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?
sn=200009)
•asks over 50,000 people in England and Wales about their experiences of crime in
the last 12 months.
Young People's Social Attitudes Survey (http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?
sn=2000059)
•conducted by the National Centre for Social Research as part of the British Social
Attitudes Survey.

16. UK Data Service
(http://ukdataservice.ac.uk)
English Housing Survey (http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=200010)
•collects information from 17,000 households annually.
European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions
(http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=200015)
•collecting timely and comparable cross-sectional and longitudinal microdata on
income, poverty and social exclusion.
Integrated Household Survey (http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000024)
•data from the core variables of individual survey modules, including the Annual
Population Survey, Life Opportunities Survey and Living Costs and Food Survey.

17. UK Data Service
(http://ukdataservice.ac.uk)
Households Below Average Income (http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000022)
•uses household disposable incomes, after adjusting for the household size and composition, as a
proxy for material living standards, level of consumption of goods and services that people could
attain given the disposable income of their household
Living Costs and Food Survey (http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?sn=2000028)
•information on spending patterns of around 6,000 sample households and the cost of living
since 2008
Workplace Employment Relations Survey (http://discover.ukdataservice.ac.uk/series/?
sn=2000058)
•provides reliable, nationally representative data on the state of workplace relations and
employment practices in Britain since 1980

18. Please contact in the Library
Sven Griesenbeck
higgens@regents.ac.uk
For further information

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Updated: Jan 2015