Library guides: Statistics: Find statistics

Australian statistics databases

ABS Statistics
Australia's national statistical agency and an official source of independent, reliable information. Access to the full range of the Bureau's statistical and reference information, including census data from 1996 onwards.

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) is Australia's national agency for health and welfare statistics and information. The Institute produces authoritative publications about key health and welfare issues in Australia. The website offers an online catalogue of AIHW data holdings as well as the option to read publications online.

Passport (Euromonitor)
Provides marketing data and reports on countries, companies, markets, and consumers.
Previously Passport GMID. Euromonitor International's Passport database is an online business information system providing business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. It offers integrated access to statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources for 205 countries.
Summary of licence
International Financial Statistics Online
A subset of the International Monetary Fund data containing statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. Data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.
The database contains time series data from January 1948. Users can select series of interest, display the selected series in a spreadsheet format and/or save the selected series for use in other software.
International Labour Organization Statistics
Provides annual and infra-annual labour market statistics. The Yearly indicators dataset contains standardized indicators for comparison across countries, while the Short term indicators dataset contains monthly, quarterly and semi-annual data drawn from official websites of national authorities.

Global Health Observatory (GHO)
"Global Health Observatory (GHO) is a gateway to health-related statistics from around the world. The aim of the GHO is to: compile and verify major sources of health data; provide easy access to country data and metadata; present scientifically sound information in user-friendly formats. GHO theme pages will cover global health priorities such as the health-related Millennium Development Goals, women and health, mortality and burden of disease, disease outbreaks, health equity and health systems. Each theme page will present: highlights showing the global situation and trends, using regularly updated core indicators; data views customized for each theme, including country profiles and a map gallery; publications relevant to the theme; links to relevant web pages within WHO and elsewhere.

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Statistics are often freely available on the web. When trying to find statistical information, ask yourself:

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Statistics may also be reported in newspaper, magazine and journal articles.

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