Statistical handbook on the world's children
By: Chandrika Kaul.
Publisher: Oryx Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
Subjects: Children -- Statistics.
Genres: Statistics.
Other titles: World's children
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction ix C. Health and Nutrition 223; title: List of Tables and Figures xii 1. Central Government Expenditures for; title: List of Tables and Figures xiith,Cae 22; title: Health Care 226; title: A. Demographics and Vital Statistics 1 2. Access to Safe Water 228; title: 1. Child Population 3 3. Access to Sanitation 231; title: 2. Sex Ratio at Birth 28 4. Hospital Beds 234; title: 3. Population Growth Rates 32 5. Health Care Professionals 235; title: 4. Child Population Projections 36 6. Births Attended by Skilled Personnel 243; title: 5. Youth Dependency Ratio 41 7. Vaccination and Immunization 246; title: 6. Infant Mortality Rate 43 8. Vitamin and Mineral Supplements 274; title: 7. Under-5 Mortality Rate 65 9. Oral Rehydration Treatment (ORT) 277; title: 8. Gender Difference in Mortality 77 10. Food Aid 281; title: 9. Births to Adolescents 82 11. Breast-fed Babies 282; title: 10. Maternal Mortality 89; title: 10. Materal Mortality 89 .D. Disease, Hunger and Malnutrition 284; title: 11. The Mothers' Index 93 1. Causes of Death 287; title: 1. Causes of Death 287; title: 12. Life Expectancy 95; title: 12. Lfe Expectancy 95 2. Preventable Diseases 296; title: 13. Healthy Life Expectancy 115 Malaria 314; title: 3. Malaria 314; title: B. Education 119 4. Childhood Cancer 315; title: 1. Number of Schools 123 5. Deaths from Preventable Injuries 315; title: 2. Compulsory Education 126 6. Deaths from Traffic Accidents 316; title: 3. Entrance Age and Duration of Schooling 7. Vitamin and Mineral Deficiencies 317; title: by Level 129 8. Oral Disease Prevalence 322; title: 4. Net Apparent Intake Rate 141 9. Low Birth Weight or Underweight 325; title: 5. Enrollment Ratios 143 10. Childhood Obesity 328; title: 6. Age-Specific Enrollment Ratio 154 11. Hunger 329; title: 7. Gender and Wealth 157 12. Malnutrition 343; title: 8. Types of Education 167; title: 8. Types of Education 167 E. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; title: 9. Class Size and Pupil-Teacher Ratio 177ed Immunoy; title: 10. Coefficient of Efficiency 184 1. B g of t E; title: 1. Beginning of the Epidemic 353; title: 11. Students Repeating Grades 185.; title: 11. Students Repeating Grades 185 2. Children Living with HIV/AIDS 354; title: 12. Survival Ratios 187 3 AIDS Deaths 364; title: 13. Transition Rate 189; title: 13. Transition Rate Exc189 4. Teens and the AIDS Info Gap 371; title: 14. School Life Expectancy 190 5. AIDS Orphans 374; title: 15. Facilities 191 5. AIDS Orphans 374; title: 15. Facilities 191; title: 6. AIDS and Education 379; title: 16. Public Spending on Education 194; title: 17. Time Spent in Overall Instruction 206 F. Economics 380; title: 18. Homework 207 1. Gross Domestic and National Product per; title: 19. Student Performance and Achievement 208 Capita 383; title: 20. Literacy Rates 217 2. Indebtedness 390; title: 21. Illiteracy 220 3. Official Development Assistance (ODA) 395; title: 4. Spending for Basic Social Services 398 6. Commercial Sexual Exploitation 4b8; title: 5. Human Poverty Index (HPI) 400 7. Violence Against Girls 471; title: 6. International Poverty Line (IPL) 402 8. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) 472; title: 7. Child Poverty in the Industrial World 404 9. Refugee Children 473; title: 8. Poverty and Household Composition 405 10. Children in the Military 482; title: 9. Minimum Work Age 406 11. Landmines 493; title: 10. Children's Work Places 407; title: Appendixes 496; title: 11. Size of Child Labor Force 408; title: i. World Health Organization Regional and; title: 12. Distribution of Child Labor 414; title: Economic Groupings 496; title: 13. Youth Unemployment 415; title: 13. Youth Unemployment 415 2. Declaration of the Rights of the Child 498; title: ;. Family, Social Environment and Behavior 416 3. Convention on the Rights of the Child; title: 1. Human Development Index (HDI) 419 (CRC) 499; title: 2. The Child Risk Measure (CRM) 422 4. Signatories to the Convention on the Rights; title: 3. Households 425 of the Child (CRC) 509; title: 4. Average Family Size 429 5. UNICEF's Response to HIV/AIDS; title: 5. Children Living Away from Parents 430 Epidemic 512; title: 6. Foster Care and Foster Children 431 6. International Labour Organization C138; title: 7. Institutional and State Care 432 Minimum Age Convention, 1973 513; title: 8. Adoption 433 7. C182 Worst Forms of Child Labour; title: 9. Children of Divorce 435 Convention, 1999 517; title: 10. Working Mothers 436 8. Declaration on Social and Legal Principles; title: 11. Sexual Activity 437 Relating to the Protection and Welfare of; title: 12. Contraception 438 Children, with Special Reference to Foster; title: 13. Teenage Abortions 439 Placement and Adoption Nationally and; title: 14. Married Adolescents 439 Internationally 520; title: 15. Tobacco and Alcohol 445 9. Draft Optional Protocol to the Convention; title: 16. Food Habits 448 on the Rights of the Child on Involvement; title: 17. Dental Care 451 of Children in Armed Conflict 522; title: 18. Leisure Activities 451 10. Optional Protocols to the Convention on the; title: 19. Exercise 453 Rights of the Child on the Involvement of; title: Children in Armed Conflict and on the Sale; title: 1. Irlme, Violene and War 454 4of Children, Child Prostitution and Child; title: 1. Illegal Drug Use 457; title: 2. Age of Criminal Responsibility 461 Pornography 525; title: 3. Juvenile Crimes 462 Acronyms 533; title: 4. Juvenile Prisoners 465 G; title: Glossary 534; title: 5. Homicide, Suicide and Firearm-Related; title: Deaths 468 Index 538.