DID YOU KNOW THAT on the 6 October 2009 at 01:52:17 PM (Canberra time), the resident population of Australia is projected to be

This projection is based on the estimated resident population at 31 March 2009 and assumes growth since then of:

• one birth every 1 minute and 44 seconds,
• one death every 3 minutes and 39 seconds,
• a net gain of one international migrant every 1 minutes and 53 seconds leading to
• an overall total population increase of one person every 1 minute and 12 seconds.

Courtesy of the ABS website 6/10/2009

 The above statistic was accessed via Offstats, a database  created by the University of New Zealand. It provides access to free statistics from official sources on the web. Some specialised databases are only available to the  staff and students, but a great deal of the sources/statistics are available for all to access. Have a look at the website http://www.offstats.auckland.ac.nz/

Below are a few of statistics texts that we have in the library.  Although statistics as a subject is found at the Dewey number 519.5. Subject matter that relies on the use of statistics can also be found across a whole range of subjects such as social sciences and business studies just to name a few…

The atlas of the real world		Elementary statistics		Business statistics demystified
Daniel Dorling		Allan G Bluman		Steven M Kemp
REF 912/DORL		519.5/BLUM		519.5/KEMP
Courtesy Thames & Hudson		McGraw Hill		McGraw Hill
London & Melbourne

Other useful statistics websites

Australian Bureau of Statistics : Provides statistics on a wide range of economic and social matters, serving government, business and the general population.

Overseas equivalents of the Australian Bureau of Statistics

FedStats gateway is the United States portal to Federal Government agencies’ statistics.

National statistics online provides statistics on the United Kingdom

Eurostat is the European Union’s statistical information service

United Nations common database (UNCDB) provides data  in areas such as international trade, national accounts, energy and industry