UN Millennium Development Goals e-learning materials

Dataset contents

The ESDS International data portfolio contains data on a wide range of subjects varying in temporal and geographical coverage that collectively record over 50 years of global social, economic and environmental change. The titles of the international datasets give some clue as to their contents and the list below groups the databases available at ESDS International by topic (the hyperlinks will take you to comprehensive dataset guides on the ESDS International website. They provide further information on the dataset contents, temporal and geographical coverage).

Culture (cultural participation, leisure, tourism and sport)

Demography (composition, fertility, migration, morbidity and mortality)

Economics (financial statistics, government statistics, household economy, national accounts, investment)

Education (basic skills, pre-school education, education finance, life-long learning, teaching profession, vocational education)

Health (health care, nutrition, accidents and injuries, health profession, maternal health, drug abuse, alcohol and smoking, health expenditure, specific diseases e.g. aids, malaria)

Information and Communication (internet use, mass media)

Labour and Employment (training, employment and unemployment, working conditions)

Crime (crime and law enforcement)

Environment and Energy (pollution, surface area and natural landscapes, deforestation, emissions, natural resources, energy production, trade, stocks, transformation, consumption, prices and taxes and greenhouse gas emissions)

Science and Technology (research and development, expenditure, personnel, patents)

Social Welfare Policy and Systems and Social Stratification (children, elderly, family life and marriage, housing, social mobility, social conditions)

Trade, Business and Industry (imports, exports, output, consumption, import penetration, investment per employee, export market shares)

Globalisation and International Development (globalisation, inward/outward investment, debt and aid)

Transport, Travel and Mobility (rail, road, air, maritime)

Alternatively the ESDS International Data Catalogue can be searched by keyword across micro and macro international datasets. Please try the Searching ESDS International Data Catalogue activity.