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The overall goal of CRPH is to enhance the capability of the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) at AUB, and to conduct interdisciplinary and collaborative research on population and health in Lebanon and in the region

The immediate objectives are to:

• Initiate new research on issues at the intersection of population and health
• Support, stimulate, and enrich interdisciplinary research in FHS, AUB, and the region
• Promote collaboration among researchers and professionals with similar research interests in Lebanon, the region, and internationally
• Disseminate findings from research undertaken by the faculty to scientists, policy makers, and the public at large.

• Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
• World Fertility Survey (WFS)
• World Values Surveys (WVS)
• Palestince Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS)
• Cross-national data

DHS [DHS resources]

DHS Surveys are nationally-representative household surveys with large sample sizes (usually between 5,000 and 30,000 households). DHS surveys provide data for a wide range of monitoring and impact evaluation indicators in the areas of population, health, and nutrition.

For more information: Measure DHS

WFS

WFS surveys are a collection of high-quality, internationally comparable surveys of human fertility conducted in 41 developing countries in the late seventies and early eighties.

For more information: The Office of Population and Research at Princeton University

Africa  |  America |  Asia  |  Europe

WVS

Surveys

The World Values Survey is a worldwide investigation of socio-cultural and political change. It is conducted by a network of social scientist at leading universities all around world. Interviews have been carried out with nationally representative samples of the publics of more than 80 societies on all six inhabited continents. A total of four waves have been carried out since 1981 making it possible to carry out reliable global cross-cultural analyses and analysis of changes over time.

This project is being carried out by an international network of social scientists, with local funding for each survey (though in some cases, it has been possible to raise supplementary funds from outside sources). In exchange for providing the data from interviews with a representative national sample of at least 1,000 people in their own society, each participating group gets immediate access to the data from all of the other participating societies. Thus, they are able to compare the basic values and beliefs of the people of their own society with those of more than 60 other societies. In addition, they are invited to international meetings at which they can compare findings and interpretations with other members of the WVS network.

For more information: World Values Surveys

PCBS [Surveys]

The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) main function is to provide Official and Accurate statistics on demographic, social, economic and environmental states and trend to serve the Palestinian citizenry, and to serve the instrumental needs of businesses and their organizations for statistical information on states and trends.

For more information: Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics

Cross National

The Cross National datasets include the following

World Urbanization Prospects The 2005 Revision

The 2005 Revision of the World Urbanization Prospects, prepared by the United Nations Population Division, provides a comprehensive and consistent set of urban and rural population data for the world's countries and areas, as well as for urban agglomerations with more than 750,000 inhabitants in 2005. The data referring to urban and rural areas cover the period 1950-2030 and those referring to urban agglomerations cover the period 1950-2015

National Population Policies 1976-2000

National Population Policies 2001 contains data on the population policies and policy perceptions of 193 countries around the dates 1976, 1986, 1996 and 2001. The policy topics covered include population growth, mortality, fertility, internal migration and spatial distribution, immigration and emigration. Also included is information on related demographic and socio-economic indicators. National Population Policies provides a new format for the data previously published as the Global Review and Inventory of Population Policies (GRIPP) -seven editions, 1987-1999.

The data are drawn from information in the Population Policy Data Bank maintained by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat. The information in the Population Policy Data Bank is derived from a variety of sources. One major source is the official replies of Governments to the United Nations Population Inquiries conducted in 1963, 1972, 1976, 1978, 1982, 1988, 1993 and 1998. Other major sources of data are national development plans, publications describing laws and regulations, national reports prepared for the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, official statements at population conferences and before various United Nations bodies, explicit population planning documents, clippings from the world press, academic journals, information provided by bibliographical services and population newsletters, consultations with technical experts, contacts within the United Nations system and material provided by governmental agencies.

National Population Policies 2001 offers three options for retrieving/analyzing data:

- Governments' views and policies
- Frequency distribution of views and policies;
- Two-page country sheets as published in National Population Policies, 2001 (ST/ESA/SER.R/156)

UNDP: Human Development Indicators (HDI)

UNDP provides statistical data from the Human Development Report (HDR) and resources to help readers better understand these data. Readers can also find helpful information about the human development index (HDI) and other indices, links to other background materials, data resources and on-going debates and discussions on human development statistics.

The Human Development statistics that are available in CRPH include:

1. Statistics for HDI 2006
2. Statistics for HDI 2004

UNU: World Income Inequality (WIID) 2000 and 2005

The UNU/WIDER World Income Inequality Database (WIID) collects and stores information on income inequality for developed, developing, and transition countries

1. The database with the data and its characteristics available in a zipped Excel spreadsheet file (438KB).
2. A user guide (PDF 139KB), giving a general description of the database and its contents.
3. Country Information Sheets with specific information per country. These sheets provide information about the sources and the surveys used as far as documentation was available.

For more information : http://www.wider.unu.edu/wiid/wiid.htm