Data Resource Profile: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

Data Resource Profile: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) plays a leading role in the collection, compilation, analysis and dissemination of data to inform sound policies, legislation and programmes for promoting children's rights and well-being, and for global monitoring of progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. UNICEF maintains a set of global databases representing nearly 200 countries and cov...

DATA RESOURCE PROFILE Data Resource Profile: 1991 Canadian Census Cohort

The 1991 Canadian Census Cohort is the largest population-based cohort in Canada (N1⁄4 2 734 835). Prior to the creation of this Cohort, no national population-based Canadian cohort was available to examine mortality by socioeconomic indicators. The 1991 Canadian Census Cohort was created via the linkage of a subsample of respondents from the mandatory 1991 Canadian Census long-form to historic...

The United Nations and Open Data

The United Nations through the United Nations University International Network on Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) has embarked on a number of projects related to the environment and supported by freely available data akin to open data. These projects all use a common knowledge platform called Knowledge Integration and Management United Nations University (KIM-UNU) developed by the Uni...

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization United Nations

Termites are the most important soil fauna in the Sahelian zone of Africa, intensely interacting with the soil. Both the biotic and abiotic state of the soil affect the termite population and activity. The construction by termites of nests, gallery systems or sheetings from soil or from a mixture of soil and other material within the soil horizons or on the soil surface affect the physical and ...

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