Statistics

This report seeks to provide a framework to measure the nexus between gender and the environment. It proposes 18 gender-environment indicators for inclusion in the wider set of gender indicators, across the focal areas of right to land, natural resources and biodiversity; access to food, energy, water and sanitation; climate change, sustainable production and consumption, and health; and women in environmental decision making at all levels.

The UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics 2018 provides a wide range of statistics and indicators relevant to the analysis of international trade, investment, maritime transport and development. Reliable statistical information is indispensable for formulating sound policies and recommendations that may commit countries for many years as they strive to integrate into the world economy and improve the living standards of their citizens.

WIPO's World Intellectual Property Indicators 2014 provides a wide range of indicators covering the following areas of intellectual property: patents, utility models, trademarks, industrial designs, microorganisms and plant variety protection. It draws on data from national and regional IP offices, WIPO and the World Bank.

The present report highlights the results of the 2008 Revision of the official world population estimates and projections prepared by the Population Division of teh Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. 

This text deals mainly with statistical methods appropriate for large samples. Frequency distributions, tabulation, graphing, use of centering constants and measures of variation, and other descriptive methods are treated in the introductory chapters. Further topics include the binomial and the use of normal distribution in large sample approximate tests of significance for differences in sample means and proportions.