So 184: Web Resources for Project Research
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Dennis Hodgson
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Room 113, Donnarumma Hall
Department of Sociology
Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT 06430
Phone: (203) 254-4000, ext. 2785
E-Mail: hodgson@mail.fairfield.edu
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Sources of
Section 1 country information for your project:
- Britannica Nations of the
World, Britannica Online has political and physical
maps. The "article entry" for each country will give you an
overview of its politics, economic situation, and history. The
"recent events" section will cover major events happening in recent
years. The "statistics" sections is good for what has happened
short overview of both country statistics and recent events.
- CIA
World Factbook -- Good, brief, compilations of very current country
data
brought to you from the US Central Intelligence Agency. Also contains
good country and regional maps. One of the few sources giving
estimates of sex ratio at birth and net migration rates.
- State Department
Background Notes -- Approximately 20 page descriptions for each of
170 countries. The information is recent (2003-2004) and easily
accessible.
Gives good short histories. Also a good source for finding out
your countries' ethnic and language groups.
- Country
Studies/Area Handbook Project -- A continuing series
of books prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of
Congress. This online series presently contains studies of
91
countries. These books are a good source for historical
information
on your countries.
Maps
Sources of
Section 2 population growth information for your project:
- LEXIS-NEXIS
Academic Universe -- provides access to a wide range
of full-text news stories from around the world from the early 1970s to
today. Table 2-2 asks you to do a Lexis-Nexis
search for newspaper stories dealing with population growth in your two
countries. At the initial Lexis-Nexis screen the "Guided News
Search" option.
At the news category box select the "World News" button. In the
box next to "news source" pull down the arrow and choose the
appropriate source for your country. For example, choose "Middle
Eastern/African News Sources" for a search on Kenyan stories. In
the box next to "Date
range" pull down the arrow and choose "All available dates. In
the
first "enter search term" box type this phrase: "country-name's
population growth" (for example: "kenya's population growth")
-- do not
forget to include the quote marks (") around this
phrase.
Now click on the Search Button at the bottom of the screen. You
will
then get a listing of newspaper stories dealing with population growth
in
your country. The Kenya search produced 31 stories. Click
on
the stories (the most recent are on the top of the list) to get the
full
text of the actual story and its source. Read the stories and
choose
at least two to include Table 2-2; if you found more than two very good
stories than include those as well. When the story is on the
screen
you can hit the "print" button to get a hard copy. You can
include
copies of good stories as an appendix to this section.
Sources of
Section 3 information for your project:
- Global
surveillance of HIV/AIDS -- find, and either read or print out,
your countries' AIDS Epidemiological Fact Sheets.
Use this information to complete Table 3-2 for your project.
- AIDS Epidemic
Update (UNAIDS) -- Find the short overview of 2004 AIDS
trends.
Reading this short piece will allow you to better interpret the
relative significance of your particular countries' AIDS situation.
Sources of
Section 4 information for your project:
- International
Demographic Data (from U.S. Census) -- This is a good source of a
whole range of demographic data from 1950 to the present for all
countries.
Highlight "Age Specific Fertility Rates," and "Most Recent Year
Available" from the menu. Hit select and print or copy out the
resulting table.
- United Nations data on Contraceptive Use 2001 -- Excel
File, PDF
Wall Chart -- is a useful source of information for Table 4 -3 data.
- The State of
World Population 2004 (United National Development Program,
2004), Web Edition.
Information for Table 4-3 can be found in the "Table" section. If
there is no data for your country(ies) at this source, then try the CIA
World Factbook,.
Sources of
Section 5 information for your project:
- CIA
World Factbook -- One of the few sources giving estimates of
net migration -- don't forget to transcribe the "minus"
sign. A "minus"
sign means net emigration. No sign means net immigration.
- International Migration 2002 Chart (United Nations)
-- Excel
File, PDF
Wall Chart -- giving country specific estimates of
numbers of immigrants, refugees, % of population of migrant stock,
estimates of
net migration, and current government policy positions on immigration
and
emigration.
- International
Migration Policies (Population Division, United Nations)
--
a country listing of immigration and emigration policies; estimates of
immigrant populations and refugees.
- LEXIS-NEXIS
Academic Universe -- At the initial
Lexis-Nexis screen the "Guided News Search" option. At the
news category box select the "World News" button. In the box next
to "news source" pull down the arrow and choose the appropriate source
for your country.
For example, choose "Middle Eastern/African News Sources" for a search
on Kenyan stories. In the box next to "Date range" pull down the
arrow and choose "All available dates. In the first "enter search
term"
box type this phrase: migration w/10 your country-name
(for
example: migration w/10 kenya). You might want to change
the
search parameters from "Headline and Lead Paragraph" to "full
text."
This search will look for all news stories in which the word
"migration"
appears within ten words of your country's name. You can change
the
"10" to a greater number if you get no or few results. In the box
next to "Source Material" pull down the arrow and choose the
appropriate
source for your country. For example, choose "Middle
Eastern/African
News Sources" for a search on Kenyan stories. In the box next to
"Date"
pull down the arrow and choose "All available dates." Now click
on
the Search Button at the bottom of the screen. You will then get
a
listing of newspaper stories dealing with migration in your
country.
The Kenya search produced 19 stories. Click on the stories (the
most
recent are on the top of the list) to get the full text of the actual
story
and its source. Read the stories to find out if your countries
have
experienced significant migration events. When the story is on
the
screen you can hit the "print" button to get a hard copy. You can
include copies of good stories as an appendix to this section.
Sources of
Section 7 information for your project:
In this section you will use a software program, Spectrum,
to generate population projections for your two countries.
Fertility, mortality, and migration all affect population change.
Spectrum allows
you to manipulate these variables and simulate population changes based
on your values. Spectrum
is installed on the computers in CNS 304, but you can also download it
and install is on your own computer. On the web go to http://www.tfgi.com for the lastest
version, or
to SpectrumProgram
and follow the instruction for downloading and installing this
program.
This is a sophisticated projection program, so be sure to download the
manuals. For your project you will only be using the DemProj
program, so the DemProj.PDF
file would be the one manual file to download to your machine.
A Making
a Population Projection Manual, with the specific instructions
needed for your project research, should be read by everyone doing
Sections
7 & 8 projections.
Sources of
Section 9 information for your project:
Sources
of Section 11 information for your project:
- The historical data for Graphs 11-1A & B can be found
on the World Bank's "The 2000 World Development.Indicators CD-ROM "
(found in DMH 132 lab), or on this GNP & Population Growth Data for
the Class of 2004. You will generally, but not always, find
data for
the period the early 1960s to 1998. To find more recent GNP per
capita
data go to the World
Bank Country Data site and look up your countries under the Data
Profile box. You should also look at the US Commerce Department's
Country
Commercial Guides for both this data and an overview of the
economy.
You should be able to find a GNP per capita measure for 1999, 2000,
2001, 2002, and 2003. If you use the World Bank's CD-ROM, then select
your countries, then choose GNP per capita (US $s, Atlas Method) as
your series, and then "show all 39" as your year category. Choose
"Show data," then change units from "Scientific" to "Units," and
finally choose your orientation
as "Periods down, series across."
- To find more recent GNP per capita data go to the World
Bank Country Data site and look up your countries under the Data
Profile box. You should be able to find a GNP per capita measure
for recent
years.
- You can find a World Bank overview of your countries' economies
at the World
Bank Regions and Countries site. Find your country in the "All
Countries" box. Once at your country's page, click on the "Country
Brief" link on the left. This will give you a very current,
and brief overview of recent developments in your country's economy.
- CIA
World Factbook, -- read the "Economy overview" section of the
country report
for a brief treatment of recent economic trends in your countries.
- State Department
Background Notes -- read the "economy" portion of the State
Department background notes on your countries.
- LEXIS-NEXIS
Academic Universe search for a current economic report on
your country. At the initial Lexis-Nexis screen the
"Guided News Search" option. At the news category box select the
"World News" button. In the box next to "news source" pull down
the arrow and choose the appropriate source for your country. For
example, choose "Middle Eastern/African News Sources" for a search on
Kenyan stories. In
the box next to "Date range" pull down the arrow and choose "All
available
dates. In the first "enter search term" box type this phrase: "country-name's
economy" (for example: "Iran's economy") -- do not forget to
include the quote marks (") around this phrase. You can leave the
Date box set at six months since you want a recent report. You should
get
several good reports. One of the best is the World of
Information
Country Report. The MEED Quarterly Report, and recent
articles
in The Economist are also very good.
Sources
of Section 12 information for your project:
- Government
Statements made at the International Conference on Population and
Development, Cairo, 1994 (UNITED NATIONS POPULATION
INFORMATION
NETWORK). You have read about the ICPD conference in our
textbook, Population, pages 551-554, and in the The State of World
Population 2004. Find the statements made by your
countries' representatives at the conference. Most, but not
all, countries were represented at the conference, but some statements
are not in English.
- LEXIS-NEXIS
Academic Universe -- Review the procedures described
above in the "Sources of Section 2 information"
about
doing a Lexis-Nexis
search for newspaper stories. At the initial Lexis-Nexis
screen
the "Guided News Search" option. At the news category box select
the "World News" button. In the box next to "news source" pull
down
the arrow and choose the appropriate source for your country. For
example, choose "Middle Eastern/African News Sources" for a search on
Kenyan stories. In the box next to "Date range" pull down the
arrow
and choose "All available dates. In the first "enter search term"
box type this phrase: "country-name's" w/100 "population
policy" (for example: "kenya" w/100 "population policy") --
do
not forget to include the quote marks (") around each phrase.
This
keyword search will retrieve all news stories in which the word "kenya"
appears
within 100 words of the phrase "population policy." In the box
next
to "Source Material" pull down the arrow and choose the appropriate
source
for your country. For example, choose "Middle Eastern/African
News
Sources" for a search on Kenyan stories. In the box next to
"Date"
pull down the arrow and choose "All available dates." Now click
on
the Search Button at the bottom of the screen. If too few stories
are retrieved dealing with the population policies of your countries,
change
the phrase "population policy" to "population conference" and try again.
- There is some information availabable about how committed donor
countries are to supporting population programs -- although it is from
1996 and is now somewhat dated. Population Action International
(a non-govermental organization
concerned with lowering rates of population growth) assessed the
support for population control activities of certain developed (or
"donor") countries. Their "Report
Card" offers a three to five page report on the population
activities of the following countries: Norway, Denmark, Sweden,
Netherlands, United States, Finland, United Kingdom, Australia,
Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Japan, Belgium, New Zealand, Austria,
France, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, and Italy. This is an 84 page
report, so remember to just print the pages dealing with your country
and not the whole document.
- The United Nations has a publication, National Population
Policies 2001 (New York: United Nations) that contains a
policy profile of each country's population policy. I have
extracted the one page profile of each of your country's population
policy contained in National
Population Policies 2003 (New York: United
Nations, 2001). I have also extracted a one page of population
statistics from National
Population Policies 2003 that relate to national
polulation policies.
Good sources of
international demographic data for your project:
- International
Demographic Data (from U.S. Census) -- This is a good source of a
whole range of demographic data from 1950 to the present for all
countries.
Not all measures for all times or all countries. Also contains
projected
measures until the year 2050.
- UN World Population Prospects
Data Base (2000) -- UN population projections, by
country from the year 2000 to 2050
- UN
World Population Prospects (2000) Excel File -- UN
population projections, by country from the year 2000 to 2050
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- World Marriage Patterns 2000 (UN) -- Excel
File, PDF
Wall Chart
- Population Aging 2002 (UN) -- PDF
Wall Chart
- International Migration 2002 (UN) -- Excel
File, PDF
Wall Chart -- giving country specific estimates of
numbers of immigrants.
- EXPERT
GROUP MEETING ON POLICY RESPONSES TO POPULATION AGEING AND
POPULATION DECLINE -- Copies of all the documents from
this
16-18 October 2000 UN meeting on below replacement fertility.
- Completing
the Fertility Transition -- Copies of all the documents
from this 14-18 March 2002 UN meeting.
- Annual
Reports of the UN Population Commission -- from 1994 to the
present.
- UN March 2000 report on Replacement
Migration: Is It a Solution to Declining and Ageing Populations?
- Download the UN
Database on National Population Policies (2001) --
follow instuctions for a wonderful database on population policies
- Abortion
Policies: A Global Review -- presents a country-by-country
examination of national policies concerning induced abortion.
- UN Concise
Report on Population, Environment, and Development (2001) --
UN report ST/ESA/SER.A/202
- Wall
Chart on Population, Environment, and Development (2001) --
see above report.
- UN data on Contraceptive Use 2001 -- Excel
File, PDF
Wall Chart
- Recent
Publications of the UN Population Division.
- Social
Indicators Database (World Bank) -- Has much demographic data, as
well as economic and social data, for 1965 to the present.
- Global
Health-For-All Indicators (World Health Organization) --
Short table for each country on general health statistics.
- World Resources 1996-97
(World Resources Institute, United Nations Environment Programme, World
Bank)
-- Data on population, food production, environment by country.
- UN
Population Data -- Internet access to UN information on population
and development.
- FAO
(Food and Agricultural Organization) Population Database -- another
source of demographic data.
- Country Health
Statistics Profiles (Center for International Health Statistics) --
Great source for health as well as population statistics for developing
countries. Contains some historical information back to 1950 for
population size, crude rates, infant mortality rates, etc. Has very
extensive health and nutrition statistics, especially for children.
- USAID
- International Development Resources
- U.S. Census
Data at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- U.S.
Census: Global Pop Database
- U.S.
Census: International Data Base (IDB)
- World
Fertility Survey
- WHO: Statistical
Information Systems
- WHO
- Mortality Database
Sources of general information on your
project countries:
"On-line" demographic journals:
US Demographic Information:
Other Interesting Population Sites:
Population Sites for Those
Interested in Demography:
University Population Centers
U.S. Governmental Agencies
International IGOs
International NGOs
- Alan Guttmacher Institute "promotes free, informed and responsible choices for all
men and women with regard to sexual activity, reproduction and family
formation, in the United States and throughout the world."
- EngenderHealthl works worldwide to give women and men access to high-quality
family planning and reproductive health services
- Center for Development and
Population Activities
- Center
for Indigenous Knowledge of Agricultural and Rural Development
- Family Health International
- Independent Sector
- Institute for
Sustainable Development
- International Center for Research
on Women (ICRW) is dedicated to promoting social
and economic development with women's full participation. ICRW
generates equality, empirical information and technical assistance on
women's productive and reproductive roles, their status in the family,
their leadership in society, and their management of environmental
resources.
- International Federation of
Fertility Societies
- Management Sciences for Health is a private nonprofit corporation dedicated to bridging
the gap
between what is known about public health problems and what is done to
solve
them.
- PATH (Program for Appropriate
Technology in Health) has as its mission to improve
health, especially the health of women and children. PATH works in
partnership with host-country governments and local agencies to assess
health problems and identify and implement creative and effective
user-based solutions. PATH programs address a wide variety of topic
areas: child and maternal health,
reproductive health and family planning, communicable diseases, and
financing.
- Pathfinder International has been working with institutions in Asia, Africa, and
Latin America to create and improve access to quality family planning
and reproductive health information and services. Their Web site
provides information about the organization's history and activities.
- Planned Parenthood of America
- International Planned Parenthood
Federation
- Population Action
International
- Population Reference Bureau
- The Population Council
- Research Triangle
Institute (RTI) is a not-for-profit contract
research organization with 1,450 employees and annual revenues of over
$140 million. RTI's largest area of work, both domestically and
internationally, is human health, including reproductive health, family
planning, and HIV/AIDS. RTI
staff work at both the national and local levels, and provide technical
assistance, training, and applied research across the health spectrum,
from broad policy issues to clinical trials.
- The Urban Institute
- Population Connecton (Zero
Population Growth)
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