New Website Available
ArcticStat Circumpolar Database
The website is available at:
http://www.arcticstat.org/
For further information, please contact:
Andree Caron
Universite Laval
Phone: 418-656-2131
E-mail: Andree-C.Caron [at] ciera.ulaval.ca
ArcticStat, a socioeconomic circumpolar database covering thirty arctic
regions in eight countries, is now available online.
ArcticStat is a permanent, public, and independent statistical database
dealing with the countries, regions, and populations of the circumpolar
Arctic. ArcticStat intends to facilitate comparative research on the
socioeconomic conditions of the peoples of the Arctic by bringing
together already existing data, which are otherwise dispersed and often
hard to find. For the most part, the data indexed in ArcticStat come
from national statistical agencies of the countries of the Arctic or
their regional offices. These public data are produced on a recurrent
basis and are methodologically valid.
ArcticStat was created by the Canada Research Chair on Comparative
Aboriginal Condition of Universite Laval. It is officially supported by
the Arctic Council and is an official activity of the International
Polar Year. The core financial contribution was provided by the Canada
Foundation for Innovation, with additional financial contributions from
the Louis-Edmond-Hamelin Chair for Northern Research in Social Sciences
and Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. ArcticStat is located at the
Faculte des Sciences Sociales, Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada.
For further information and to access the website, please go to:
http://www.arcticstat.org/