Should we worry about data held in private, and if so when? I think we should, sometimes, while recognising that it’s not always clear-cut. We should also recognise that sometimes it is absolutely clear-cut – and we know for read more
If the post-2015 framework to succeed the Millennium Development Goals achieves anything, it must surely mandate effective investment in national-level statistical systems so that – at a bare minimum – no child’s death, wherever it may occur, will go read more
From UNICEF’s child mortality report – file under “not rocket science, just do it” – hashtag #NRSJDI, by the way. (Discussion of the new stats is here – in the glass half full and glass half empty versions.)
UNICEF have just released the new infant and child mortality estimates for 2011. The good news is a steep rise in progress last year, with total deaths of children under five falling from 7.6 million in 2010 to 6.9 million read more
So, the Child Development Index 2012: Progress, Challenges and Inequality is out. Launched in 2008 as a complement to the Human Development Index, the CDI is designed to capture progress in child well-being. The index combines measures of health, read more