From: Asia-Pacific POPIN Bulletin, Vol. 8, No. 3 (1996), pp. 16-17

A guide to population-related home pages on the World Wide Web




Dear Mr. POPIN,

In the last issue of the Asia-Pacific POPIN Bulletin, you provided us with a number of e-mail and World Wide Web address on women's issues and ageing. Could you please give us some good ones also for population and development dtat and information.



Dear POPIN members:

Talk about good timing! Soon after your requests came in, the October 1996 issue of Population Today landed on my desk. It contains a feature written by Zuali Malsawma that should keep you busy "surfing the Net" for quite some time. It is reproduced below with some abridgement and minor editorial changes.

The number of population-related home pages on the Internet's World Wide Web is increasing steadily and the information contained in them growing and changing constantly. The Australian National University's Demography & Population Studies World-Wide Web Virtual Library (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/ResFacilities DemographyPage.html) currently links to 155 demographic information facilities world-wide. Some sites have helpful indexes or local search engines to find information at the site. Highlighted below are a few outstanding home pages from government, international organizations, universities, and non-governmental agencies.


World population information

United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN)
http://www.undp.org/popin/popin.htm
World, regional and country-level demographic trends as monitored by the United Nations are available at this site. It serves as a good resource for data on historical world population growth, urbanization prospects, child mortality estimates, impact of AIDS in Africa, and world abortion policies. Conference information and documents can be found here. Regional reports and newsletters such as the East-West Center's Asia-Pacific Population & Policy and the Pan American Health Organization's Country Health Profiles are available in full text. It is linked to many other population home pages.

Demographic and Health Surveys
http://www.macroint.com/dhs/
One of the primary sources for information on fertility, family planning, maternal and child health, and household living conditions in developing countries. Fact sheets that summarize the findings on national surveys are provided. The status of surveys and the full text of the HDS Newsletter are also included.

U.S. Census Bureau's International Programs Center (IPC)
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/ipc/www/
An international database provides, for all countries of the world, statistics such as population by age and sex, life tables, migration, marital status, family planning, ethnicity, religion, language, literacy, labour force, income, households, and birth, death and infant mortality rates. Studies about AIDS/HIV infection in population groups in developing countries compiled in the HIV/AIDS Surveillance Database can be installed on your personal computer. Summary tables and maps are available at the site. A world population clock gives the Census Bureau's current world population estimate. Microcomputer software and applications for demographers are also available at this site.

Population Reference Bureau
http:/www.prb.org/prb/
For demographic statistics on more than 190 countries, query the 1996 World Population Data Sheet. Population issues are covered in the full-text newsletters Population Today, Global Stewardship Newsletter and Aging Today. Quick overviews of world and U.S. demographic trends are also included. Links are made to many other population-related web sites.

PRB is planning to introduce a super population home page with links to all the major population sites on the World Wide Web.

Population Index
http://popindex.princeton.edu/
This on-line version of Princeton University's Office of Population Research journal offers and index to articles published in approximately 400 journals in population and related fields. The database is searchable by author, subject matter, geographical region, and year of publication (1986-current). A bibliographic citation and summary of each article are provided.

POPLINE
http://www.charm.net/~ccp/popwel.html
Access information about POPLINE (POPulation Information onLINE), the world's largest bibliographic population database of published and unpublished literature in the field. Subscription information to the on-line service or CD-ROM version is provided. The results of a POPLINE Search of The Month done on a specific topic are available at the site, including previous months' search results.


U.S. population information

The Census Bureau's Home Page
http://www.census.gov/
"The Official Statistics" for the United States population. The vast amount of data is indexed by subject, including ageing, fertility, Census 1990, college enrolment, income, households, immigration, labour force, population topics, poverty and race. Selected tables from the latest Statistical Abstract of the United States and The County and City Data Book are included. Lengthy reports in .pdf format need the Adobe Acrobat Reader. This home page is linked to other web sites.

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
http:/www.cdc.gov/nchswww/nchshome.htm
Most of the reports generated by NCHS are available in full text, including Monthly Vital Statistics Report for data on births, deaths, marriages and divorces in the United States by state, race, or age, as well as total fertility rates and life expectancy etc. Other reports include Health, United States 1995; Healthy People 2000 Newsletter; and Advanced Data From Vital and Health Statistics. These lengthy reports are in .pdf format and need the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Reports dating back to 1994 are available at this time.

National Institute on Aging (NIA)
http://www.nih.gov/nia/
The NIA home page gives quick access to information on ageing, news releases, descriptions of grant programmes, and links to the NIH home page and related sites.

American Demographics, Inc.
http://www.marketingtools.com
U.S. demographics and marketing information contained in several publications are fulltext searchable.


International development information

Linkages Home Page
http://www.iisd.ca/linkages
Maintained by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), this home page serves as an electronic clearinghouse for international conferences related to environment and development. Full-text documents from United Nations conferences such as the International Conference on Population and Development, Fourth World Conference on Women, World Summit for Social Development, and Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) are available.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Home Page
http://www.undp.org/
A poverty clock ticks off the number of persons in poverty worldwide. Selected highlights from the annual Human Development Report are available. Linked to other United Nations and related organizations.

World Bank Home Page
http://www.worldbank.org/
The "Digital Library" offers selected World Bank publications in full text or lengthy summaries. Selected tables from the latest World Development Report are available. A local search engine helps to locate information contained in the vast amount of other publications.


Population associations

Association of Population Libraries and Information Centers-International (APLIC-I)
gopher://gopher.undp.org/11/ungophers/popin/regional/namerican/aplic
Contains information about APLIC-I and the full-text APLIC-I Communicator newsletter. To locate the journal holding of APLIC-I member libraries, consult the Union List of Serials at gopher://info.pop.psu.edu/ 11s/library/union_list.

Association of Population Centers
http://www.pop.psu.edu/Demography/demography.html#apc
Links to the home pages of university population centres and non-governmental organizations that have formed this association. In addition to information about programmes, areas of research and faculty, some of the university population centres provide resources such as their working papers in full text, data archives and library holdings at their web sites. All have links to other related sites.


Collections of Web sites

Internet Resources for Demographers
http://members.tripod.com/-tgryn/demog.html
A collection of demographic Internet sites organized under North American Demography, International Demography, General Demography, and Mailing Lists.

Population and Reproductive Health
http://www.pitt.edu/HOME/GHNet/popprepro.htm
A collection of United States and international web sites grouped under the following topics: Contraception, Family Planning, Fertility, Population Research, International Resources, and Journals and Newsletters.


Directory of population organizations

Population Organizations: Finder's Guide
gopher://cde2.ssc.wisc.edu:70/00/addaz lis
A comprehensive international address list of population and related organizations, including e-mail addresses and telephone, fax and telex numbers. Compiled by the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Demography and Ecology, it is revised and updated at least every six months.

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