The Impact of Microcomputer Technologies on Dissemination of Integrated Social, Demographic and Related Statistics

The United Nations has been concerned with general issues in measuring development and levels of hving and related social, economic and environment conditions since the beginning of the organization, pursuant to the promotion of "higher standards of living, full employment, and conditions of economic and social progress and development" as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations (Anicle 55). Over the past five years this work has received new stimulus in the United Nations Statistical Office fi-om the great interest at national and international levels in statistics and indicators on women and special population groups such as youth, elderly and disabled persons, and from new interest at national and international levels in the compilation and use of social statistics and indicators to design and implement social policies, to monitOT the achievement of social objectives and to monitor the social impact of economic adjustment