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section heading icon     sources

This page highlights major sources of statistics about the net and the online economy.

It covers -

It consolidates references in preceding pages of this guide and in other guides on this site.

subsection heading icon     government statistical agencies

Links to government statistical offices or specific reports are -

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) | here
  • Statistics Canada (StatCan) | here
  • US Bureau of the Census (UBC) | here
  • US Economics & Statistics Administration (ESA) | here
  • UK National Statistics (NStats) Office | here
  • Statistics New Zealand (StatsNZ) | here
  • Statistics Belgium | here
  • Statistics Denmark | here
  • Statistics Norway | here
  • Estonia | here

subsection heading icon     government internet/new economy agencies

Government internet or new economy agencies offering statistical data on their sites include -

  • Australia - former National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE) - archived
  • US Internet Council (USIC
  • EU - European Community Information Society Project Office (ISPO)
  • US Digital Divide Office (DD)
  • South Korea - National Internet Development Agency (NIDA)

subsection heading icon     other government agencies

Telecommunication regulators and miscellaneous bodies include -

  • US Department of Commerce (DOC
  • US National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA)
  • UK OfCom | here
  • EC Eurobarometer project | here

subsection heading icon     international agencies

International agencies include -

  • Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD)
  • World Bank (WBank)
  • International Telecommunications Union (ITU) - telecommunications industry indicators.

subsection heading icon     industry sources

Abstracts, promotion and other readily accessible commercial data includes -

  • Internet Indicators (University of Texas and Cisco) | here
  • Cyberatlas | here
  • Cyveillance | here
  • DomainStats | here
  • Netcraft | here
  • Netgraphs | here
  • NUA Surveys | here
  • Statmarket | here
  • BrightPlanet | here
  • Nielsen/NetRatings | here
  • InternetWorldStats | here

Industry sources to particular nations or regions are -

  • India - JuxtConsult | here
  • India - Internet & Mobile Association of India | here
  • Central and Eastern Europe - Gemius/Rankingcee | here

subsection heading icon     academic sources 

Academic and civil society sources include -

  • Hal Varian's site at University of California, Berkeley
  • Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA
  • Vanderbilt University eLab (Hoffman & Novak)
  • International Journal of Scientometrics, Infometrics & Bibliometrics (CMetrics)
  • University of Omaha Mosaic Group 
  • Internet Geography Project (IGP
  • Shane Greenstein's site at NorthWestern University
  • Digital Divide Network (DDN) at the Benton Foundation
  • International Geographical Commission on the Geography of Information Society (IGU)
  • World Internet Project (WIP)
  • Pew Internet & American Life Project (Pew)
  • Oxford Internet Institute (OII)



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