Resources, Reports, Tools, Lists, and Full Text Documents Population--Statistics and Demographics
Source: Richard Jensen, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Illinois-Chicago World Population: A Guide to the WWW
Extensive collection of annotated links organized by category:
+ Demographic Perspectives and General Resources
+ Overview of World Population: Countries, Regions
+ Sociological Data Sets, Techniques
+ Case Studies: Australia, Canada & USA
+ Case Studies: other
+ Fertility, Age Groups, Marriage, Women
+ Mortality, Morbidity, Health
+ Migration, Ethnicity, Minorities, Urbanization, Education; Class
+ Policy Perspectives
+ Other Recommendations; Teaching Tools See also: The Internet Guide to Demography and Population Studies
-- Religion--United States
Source: Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University American Religion Data Archive
"The American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) is a project funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc., and acts to preserve quantitative data on American religion, to improve access to this data, to increase the use of the data, and to allow comparisons across data files. The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations)."
-- Drugs--United States--Database
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research National Drug Code Directory
"The directory consists of prescription and selected over-the-counter, insulin, domestic, and foreign drug products that are in commercial distribution in the United States. The products have been listed in accordance with the Drug Listing Act and applicable Code of Federal Regulations for submitting drug product information to the FDA." Search by proprietary name, active ingredient, National Drug Code number or manufacturer's name. Each entry includes: trade/proprietary name, National Drug Code (identifies label/vendor, product, trade package size), dosage form, active ingredient, strength and unit, package size and type.
-- Terrorism/Warfare--Bibliographies
Source: Air University Libary Two new bibliographies
+ Asymmetric Warfare
+ Suicide Terrorism
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