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Indicators:
Urban indicators are regularly collected in a sample of cities worldwide in order to report on progress in the twenty key areas of the Habitat Agenda at the city level. Data collection is conducted through local and national urban observatories as well as through selected regional institutions. The global urban indicators database 2 contains policy-oriented indicators for more than 200 cities worldwide. Its results have been analyzed and incorporated in the State of the World's Cities Report 2001.
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Monitoring Urban Inequities:
The Monitoring Urban Inequities Programme is the study of social inequities within human settlements regarding access to essential services such as water; sanitation; shelter; sufficient living space and security of tenure. The programme however, will not be limited to these five indicators but goes a few steps beyond into other social conditions in health, education, employment and access to credit to name a few.
Statistics:
A main task of the statistics work is the harmonization and standardization of the definitions and classifications at the national and the city level. Data collection, collation, analysis and reporting on national, urban/rural and city level is done on regular basis in order to monitor human settlement conditions and trends.
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