Quality of Life
Unraveled highlights some of the working conditions and the quality of life of workers from various steps in the supply chain process from around the world. There are quite a few ways to measure quality of life. The most well known of these are the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
While there are quite a few resources listed here, the page really just scratches the surface when it comes to available data and information on Health, labor, development and making an effort to measure quality of life.
Health data and statistics
- Health Data and Statistics Research GuideA robust source of health data. While most of the information here is geared towards the United States, there are international resources as well.
- World Health Organization (WHO)The World Health Organization is an agency of the United Nations and is an international coordinating agency for public health.
Useful WHO databases for data and statistics include the Global Health Observatory (providing national statistics for health indicators), WHO Global Infobase Online (chronic diseases and risk factors), and the Global Health Atlas. Data is also accessible by topical categories. - Center for Disease Control (CDC)The CDC is a part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and is the primary federal agency for public health.
Development
- UNDataAgriculture, Crime, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators.
- International Statistics gathering agenciesComprehensive list by country, compiled by the U. S. Census Bureau. NOTE: Scroll to bottom of web page for the list.
- OECD StatOECD.Stat is the statistical online platform of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development where users can search and access OECD's statistical databases. Build tables, download data, and view methodology and sources. Browse by theme or country or search for data.
- World Development Indicators OnlineThe World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.
Demographics & Labor data
- World Bank DataThe data catalog provides download access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank sources.
- CEIC Data ManagerCEIC Data contains economic, industrial and financial time-series data. Our Global Database offers unprecedented coverage of 221 countries in Asia, Europe and Central Asia, Middle East, Africa and the Americas. EIC also offers 18 macro-economic concepts, and 1,400,000 time series. Data comes from analysts on the ground and the prime national and regional statistical agencies and major industrial data issuing organizations of each country covered. The CEIC Data Manager provides access to the entire CEIC database from within the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet application. Times-series can be directly retrieved from the database and imported into Excel for quick analysis.
- United Nations - Demographic YearbookThe UN describes the demographic yearbook by stating it "disseminates statistics on population size and composition, births, deaths, marriage and divorce, as well as respective rates, on an annual basis. The... datasets cover a wide range of additional topics including economic activity, educational attainment, household characteristics, housing characteristics, ethnicity, language, foreign-born and foreign population."
- ILOStat (International Labor Organization Statistics)The leading source for international labor statistics.
- Data Research For Labor Economics GuideA guide compiled by Cornell's ILR Librarians for Labor Economics Reserach.
- EurostatEurostat is the statistical office of the European Union. It provides the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.
- OECD iLibraryOECD iLibrary also contains content published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF).
- Bureau of Labor StatisticsStatistics and reports on employment and unemployment, the Consumer Price Index, living conditions, compensation, the federal budget, and many other economic topics.
- NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Data setsA mix of economic, political, demographic, and health data sets.