Global Urban Observatory Section

Statistics

Datahouse

DATAHOUSE is a stand-alone, easy-to-operate, PC-software and database with comprehensive city and national (urban/rural) statistics on human settlements. The database contains data from population and housing censuses of the most recent "1990 Round of Population and Housing Censuses", collected through the Human Settlements Statistics Questionnaire 1992 (HSSQ/92), launched by United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD).

More specifically, data on the following topics are available:

Population by sex, number of households and number of living quarters by type.
Occupied housing units by number of rooms, number of households, and tentureship in housing units
Population by sex and duration of residence
Number of occupied housing units by housing facilities
Number of dwellings and rooms constructed
Reported crimes and sentenced perpetrators of criminal offences
Population by sex and age groups
Economically active population by sex and industry
Population by sex, aged 5-24 years, attending and not attending school
Statistics on infrastructure and services
Land use in urban areas of the country

Requirements: DATAHOUSE runs under DOS on an IBM-compatible 386 PC with at least 4MB of RAM and 5MB of free hard disk space (SVGA-monitor and mouse are recommended).

Download DATAHOUSE and its data

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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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