CountrySTAT is a Web-based information technology system for

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and

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled peop ...

statistics at the national and subnational levels. It provides decision-makers access to statistics across thematic areas such as production, prices, trade and consumption. This supports analysis, informed policy-making and monitoring with the goal of eradicating

extreme poverty Extreme poverty, deep poverty, abject poverty, absolute poverty, destitution, or penury, is the most severe type of poverty, defined by the United Nations (UN) as "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, includi ...

and hunger. Since 2005, the Statistics Division of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has introduced CountrySTAT in over 20 countries in Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

Overview

The CountrySTAT web system is a browser oriented statistical framework to organise, harmonise and synchronise data collections. CountrySTAT aims are to facilitate data use by policy makers and researchers. It provides statistical standards, data exchange tools and related methods without using external data sources such as databases. The data source is a text file in a specific format, called px-file. The application supports many languages. The layout can be easily changed to match the needs of users.

Features

The CountrySTAT web system is easy to install and to operate on a standard Windows XP professional machine. It is programmed in

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with

visual basic Visual Basic is a name for a family of programming languages from Microsoft. It may refer to: * Visual Basic .NET (now simply referred to as "Visual Basic"), the current version of Visual Basic launched in 2002 which runs on .NET * Visual Basic (c ...

using internet information service and suitable windows software for graphical and statistical output for the intranet and internet environment.

Criticisms

The programming with VB scripts, customised DLLs and additional windows software
PC-Axis family
makes it to a platform dependently software only run with the internet information server on a Windows server machine. To use it with the internet requires an own dedicated windows server.

External links

FAO Programme Committee (87th Session): Modernization of FAOSTAT – An update. Rome, 6-10 May 2002.Website of FAO

CountrySTAT Web site

FAOSTAT Web site

FAO Statistics Division Web site

Overview

Features

Criticisms

See also

External links

National CountrySTAT Web sites