ULibraries Research Guides: Ethnic Studies: Pacific Island Studies: Statistics & Data

Style Guides

APA Formatting & Style Guide (7th Ed.)
APA (American Psychological Association) is another style often used in Ethnic Studies. The OWL's guide reflects the 6th edition, 2nd printing of the APA manual and includes numerous examples to help with paper formatting and citations.
MLA Formatting & Style Guide
MLA (Modern Language Association) style is commonly used to write papers and cite sources in Ethnic Studies. This resource, updated to reflect the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7th ed.) and the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing (3rd ed.), offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.

Key Online Statistical Sources

The following websites provide various statistical data about Pacific islands.

Asian Development Bank
Contains economic and development information and statistics on the Asia Pacific region, including many Pacific islands.
Cook Islands Statistics Office
Fiji Bureau of Statistics
Island News / United States Census Bureau
News release with instructions about how to access U.S. census data in downloadable format for American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Pacific Regional Statistics
From PRISM (Pacific Regional Information System). Provides excellent access to statistical information about the Pacific islands, with direct links to country/territory statistics websites.
Explore Census Data (formerly American FactFinder)
Data.gov
Open data of the U.S. government; includes data sets for the Pacific Islands.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Searchable updated source of historical data on government statistics, including population, work and welfare, economics, and more.
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Includes largest archive of digital social science data.
International historical statistics : Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-2000
NationMaster
General stats on different countries, including some comparative data on specific crimes.
OECD iLibrary
Online library of e-books, e-periodicals, and interactive statistical databases produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
UNData
Access point for various United Nations databases. For a guide that explains how to locate data within this data set, cut and paste the following web address into your browser: http://lgdata.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/docs/64/409026/UN_data_set.pdf
UNICEF Data
UNICEF measures the situation of children and women and tracks progress through data collection and analysis.
World Bank Data

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