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Data and statistics

Sometimes you will need to use statistics or data to help answer your assignment question. Below are links to authoritative sources of Australian and global health data and statistics.

Many statistics are freely available via a Web search. To help you to decide where you might find these data, you should consider:

Could statistics have been gathered on this subject?
What organisation might gather and share these statistics online?
Will these data be freely available or is a payment/subscription needed to access them?

The kinds of organisations that collect and share these resources may include:

state government
federal government
international governments and agencies
private enterprises

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
Australia's official national statistical agency, the ABS provides official statistics on a range of economic, social, population, and environmental topics.
Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) - facts & figures
Access statistics relating to Australian families including marriage, cohabitation, divorce, and child protection.
The Australian Data Archive (ADA)
The ADA provides a national service for the collection and preservation of digital research data, including health studies, social attitudes surveys, and longitudinal studies.
Queensland Government: Statistician's Office
Provides statistics on Queensland's population, economy, and society.
Australian Government: Australian Institute of Criminology
Provides statistics on the criminal justice system, offenders, and victims of crime.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)
Australia's national agency for health and welfare information and statistics. Useful for authoritative publications on health and welfare issues affecting Australia.

Watch What is statistics? (YouTube, 12m 59s) for an introduction to statistics.

The Global Health Observatory
Provided by the World Health Organization: statistics by theme or country; indicators; and compilations of statistics in the publications section.
OECD health statistics
Datasets for a range of health statistics for populations around the world including health status, non-medical determinants of health, health resources, and health expenditure.
World Health Statistics
Annual reports provided by the World Health Organization.
World Bank - Health
Data here cover health systems, disease prevention, reproductive health, nutrition, and population dynamics from the U.N. Population Division, WHO, UNCF, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and others.
The World's Women 2020: trends and statistics
The World’s Women 2020 is a collection of 100 stories providing assessments of progress toward gender equality.

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Data and statistics

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Data and statistics

Watch What is statistics? (YouTube, 12m 59s) for an introduction to statistics.