Organization/dataset

Internet address

Comments

ACC/SCN homepage

www.unsystem.org/accscn/

Information and links to many other nutrition-related sites

ANDI

www.africanutrition.net

Nutrition data for African countries

Arbor/Nutrition Guide

www.arborcom.com/frame/welcome.htm

Abstracts from food and nutrition journals

Cochrane database

www.medlib.com/spi/library.htm

Database of systematic reviews on health care issues (requires a subscription)

DHS/Survey Information Search

www.macroint.com/dhs/surveys/modulesearch.asp

Downloadable data from the Demographic and Health Surveys

ENN/Emergency Nutrition Network

www.tcd.ie/ENN

Includes ENN reports and articles and links to other sites

FAO/FAOSTAT

http://apps.fao.org/cgi-bin/nph-db.pl

Includes data on food availability from food balance sheets

FIVIMS/technical notes

www.fao.org/waicent/fivims/kims/diagram/tech.htm

Technical notes on sub-national data collection and aggregation on food security

Freedom House

www.freedomhouse.org/survey99/

Indicators of civil and political rights

HINAP

www.hinap.org

Health Information on selected countries of the developing world, regularly updated

ICCIDD

www.people.virginia.edu/~jtd/iccidd/mi/idd.htm

Includes IDD prevalence data

IFPRI/Food Consumption and Nutrition Division

www.cgiar.org/ifpri/divs/fcnd/dp.htm

Downloadable papers on poverty, food consumption, and nutrition

ILO/databases

www.ilo.org/public/english/support/lib/dblist.htm#statistics

Includes data on labor laws, standards, and migration

MI

www.mn-net.org/

Data on IDD, VAD and IDA prevalences

National Library of Medicine/MEDLINE

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/

Abstracts from many nutrition and medical journals

NGONUT

owner-ngonut@abdn.ac.uk

An email forum for nutrition professionals

SPHERE

www.sphereproject.org

Includes the Sphere project handbook and training materials

UNAIDS

www.unaids.org/hivaidsinfo/hiv.html

Data on HIV/AIDS

UNDP/human development indicators

www.undp.org/hdro/indicators.html

Statistics from Human Development Reports

UNEP/World Resources Institute

www.wri.org/wri/facts/data-tables.html

Environmental data tables (include data on atmosphere and climate, biodiversity, pollution)

UNEP/World Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Sites

www.wsl-ch/rauminf/riv/datenbank/tems/database_tems.html

Includes data on soil PH, climate, vegetation, soils, etc.

UNESCO

http://unescostat.unesco.org/en/stats/stats0.htm

World education indicators

UNFPA/State of the World Population 1999

www.unfpa.org/swp/1999/fact.htm

Includes data on world population trends by age, gender, and location

UNHCR/statistics

www.unhcr.ch/statist/main.htm

Includes data on refugee populations and asylum applications

UNICEF/State of the World’s Children, statistical tables

www.unicef.org/sowc98/stats.htm

Includes data reported in State of the World’s Children

USAID/Health Statistics Database

www.info.usaid.gov/regions/afr/hhraa/enotes/en19txt.htm

Links to the USAID-supported Health Statistics Database

WFP/statistics

www.wfp.org/InfoServs_Home.html

Includes data on food aid shipments and resource flows

WFP/vulnerability analysis and mapping

www.wfp.it/vam/vamhome.htm

Food vulnerability and mapping reports

WHO/Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition

www.who.int/nutgrowthdb/

Data on stunting, wasting, and underweight

WHO/Statistical Information

www.who.int/whosis/

Includes data on immunization

System World Bank

www.worldbank.org/data/

coverage and health personnel Development data

World Bank/Living Standards Measurement Surveys

www.worldbank.org/html/prdph/lsms/guide/select.html

Integrated household survey data on incomes, expenditures, education, health, nutrition, etc.