Global Urban Observatory Section

Statistics

UNHABITAT-CitiBase: Database on Cities

The UNHABITAT-CitiBase is a stand-alone, easy-to-operate, PC-software and database with comprehensive city statistics on human settlements. More specifically, data on the following categories and topics are available at city level:

 Background Data: Area, Meteorological data, Geographical coordinates, Currency.
Population: Total population, Age groups and sex, Marital status - (Married, Single, Divorced, Widowed), Economically-active population, Crime, Riots.
Households: Households by size, Households in squatter settlements, Income and expenditure (annual), Poverty, Average monthly household expenditure.
Gender: Gender representation.
Land: Land use, Incorporated urban land, Land ownership, Land market.
Housing: Occupancy and floor area by housing type, Type of housing units by household size, Housing Units by number of rooms, Tenure, Period of construction of housing units, Newly-constructed and converted housing, Facilities - (Water supply, Toilets, Lighting, Kitchens, Cooking fuel), Collective living quarters, Homeless, Type of buildings, Squatter/slum settlements policy, Investment in housing, Housing affordability, Construction costs and price indices.
Infrastructure/Services: Access to safe drinking water, Water consumption, Costs of water and delivery, Sanitation systems, Sewage disposal by treatment, Cost of sewerage, Transport, Communication, Health facilities, Education, Energy consumption, Local government revenues, Local government expenditures, Local government expenditure by function, Local government employees, Local government enterprises, Demographic indicators, Causes of mortality.
Environment: Air quality indicators, Air pollutants exceeding WHO guidelines, Emissions of air pollutants, Air pollution monitoring network, Surface water quality, Ground water quality, Noise pollution, Solid and hazardous wastes, Waste processing/recycling by type, Solid waste disposal, Health warning system.

 The database contains data from population and housing censuses including the most recent "1990 census round", collected through the Human Settlements Statistics Questionnaire 1992 (HSSQ) and data collected in the City Data Programme through the Large Cities Statistics Questionnaire.

 In addition, data from various United Nations publications and databases are compiled and stored in UNHABITAT-CitiBase.
 
 

Requirements: UNHABITAT-CitiBase runs under DOS on an IBM-compatible 386 PC with at least 4MB of RAM and 8MB of free hard disk space (SVGA-monitor and mouse are recommended).

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This web page is maintained by UNHABITAT, Global Urban Observatory Section, and was last updated by Philip Mukungu on 28 June 2002. Please forward comments, corrections or requests for more information to:
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