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| Author: | Jenny Bismuth |
| Date: | Sunday, 27th Jun 2004 09:53 |
| Views: | 1,912 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| Category: | Company, Industry, Country and Product Research | | URL: | http://www.freepint.com/go/b29101 |
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Can anyone help me? I'm looking at the CIA World Factbook. It's got heaps of really interesting information on each country - but I'm having trouble putting it in perspective. i.e. is a literacy rate of 68% good, or bad? |
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 | Statistics | | Can anyone help me? I'm looking at the CIA World Factbook. It's got heaps of really interesting information ... |
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Jenny Bismuth |
27/06/04 09:53 |
29101 |
 | Re: Statistics | | Hi Jenny,
Interestingly I've just read this (below) in Library Juice (see http://www.libr.org/Juice/issues/vol7/LJ_7.14.html#5 for the full article). It's off the topic ... |
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Natalie |
03/07/04 12:10 |
29223 |
| | Re: Statistics | | While looking at UN publications I'd suggest you include the Human Development Indicators as a reference if you are trying ... |
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Richard Hord |
02/07/04 06:56 |
29204 |
| | Re: Statistics | | Hi Jenny,
A 68% literacy rate would be considered very poor by western industrial standards. However, it really matters what you ... |
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Lukas |
28/06/04 10:19 |
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| | Re: Statistics | | Hi Jenny,
Have a look at the following link:
United Nations Statistics Division
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/social/illiteracy.htm
For perspective, consider the following (from the source listed above):
"The ... |
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Allison Kipta |
28/06/04 06:36 |
29104 |
| | Re: Statistics | | Hi Jenny - you should definitely take a look at NationMaster.com. (http://www.nationmaster.com) It puts all the CIA stats ... |
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Amy Willis |
30/06/04 02:42 |
29159 |
| | Re: Statistics | | Amy, this looks like a great site - but I'm worried about French statistics.
For instance in the transportation area, Car ... |
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Jeremy Williams |
03/07/04 20:18 |
29229 |
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