The UNICEF was created in 1946 and became 1953 a permanent part of the United Nations System in 1953. Headquartered in New York City, UNICEF provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries.
The European Science Foundation (ESF) is dedicated to pan-European scientific networking and collaboration. By initiating an array of instruments, such as ESF research programmes, Exploratory Workshops, EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research scheme), Research Networking Programmes etc., the ESF has promoted international scientific collaboration, within Europe and beyond.
It is a UNICEF site that provides technical resources and disseminates comparative statistics on the situation of children and women in the world.
Tableaux et bases de données par pays ou zones géographiques. Sites de diffusion et d’archivage d’enquêtes démographiques et d’enquêtes en sciences humaines et sociales.
Since 1984, the Demographic and Health Surveys program (DHS) has collected, analysed and disseminated accurate and representative data on population, health, HIV and nutrition through more than 200 surveys in over 75 countries.
These surveys have been conducted in the 1990s in about 20 ECE member countries. Standard country table gives access to 36 tables on economic, social, cultural and population indicators, household structure, partnership formation, fertility, contraception, sexual behaviour, contraception, abortion, female employment and children, summary measures for selected life events.For the period 2000-03, the PAU launched a project called "Generations and Gender: Research into their behaviour and quality of life". Some activities related to the FFS project continue under this new project. It will provide cross-sectional and longitudinal data, through a three-wave panel study with three-year intervals, covering the resident population aged 18 - 79 years of both sexes of the participating countries
LSMS household surveys collect data in developing countries to assess household welfare, to understand household behaviour and to evaluate the effect of various government policies on the living conditions of population.
A collection of internationally comparable surveys of human fertility conducted in 41 developing countries in the late seventies and early eighties
This page is intended as a resource to help locate datasets from developing countries. Many of these data are either in the public domain or available at modest cost from the data collection agency
