This indicator is based on location of residence. Mortality rate has been age-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population. ICD 10 codes used to identify homicides are X85-Y09, Y87.1, and U01-U02. Single-year data are only available for Los Angeles County overall, Service Planning Areas, Supervisorial Districts, City of Los Angeles overall, and City of Los Angeles Council Districts.Violence is a public health crisis in the US, with gun violence being a major driver. Almost three quarters of homicides involve firearms. In the US, the age-adjusted homicide rate from firearms is more than 20 times higher than in the European Union or in Australia. Significant disparities by age, sex, and race and ethnicity exist, with young adults ages 15-34 years, males, and Black individuals most disproportionately impacted. Comprehensive prevention strategies should work to address the underlying physical, social, economic, and structural conditions known to increase risk.For more information about the Community Health Profiles Data Initiative, please see the initiative homepage.

The European System of Social Indicators provides a systematically selected collection of time-series data to measure and monitor individual and societal well-being and selected dimensions of general social change across European societies. Beyond the member states of the European Union, the indicator system also covers two additional European nations and – depending on data availability – the United States and Japan as two important non-European reference societies. Guided by a conceptual framework, the European System of Social Indicators has been developed around three basic concepts – quality of life, social cohesion, and sustainability. While the concept of quality of life is supposed to cover dimensions of individual well-being, the notions of social cohesion as well as sustainability are used to conceptualize major characteristics and dimensions of societal or collective well-being. The indicator system is structured into 13 life domains altogether. Time-series data are available for nine life domains, which have been fully implemented. Time series start at the beginning of the 1980s at the earliest and mostly end by 2013. As far as data availability allows, empirical observations are presented yearly. Most of the indicator time-series are broken down by selected sociodemographic variables, such as gender, age groups, employment status, or territorial characteristics. Regional disaggregations are being provided at the NUTS-1 or similar levels as far as meaningful and data availability allows. The European System of Social Indicators is preferably based on harmonized data sources, ensuring the best possible level of comparability across countries and time. The data sources used include international aggregate official statistics, for example, provided by EUROSTAT and the OECD, as well as microdata from various official as well as science-based cross-national surveys, such as the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), Eurobarometer Surveys, the World Value Surveys, or the European Social Survey. The European System of Social Indicators results from research activities within the former Social Indicators Research Centre at GESIS. In its initial stage, this research was part of the EuReporting-Project (Towards a European System of Social Reporting and Welfare Measurement), funded by the European Commission within its 4th European Research Framework Programme from 1998 to 2001. For more detailed information on the European System of Social Indicators, see the methodological report under „other documents“. The data on the area of life ´Crime and public safety´ is made up as follows: Demographic and socio-economic structures, inequalities, inequality and social exclusion, human capital, objective living conditions, values and attitudes. Das Europäische System sozialer Indikatoren umfasst eine systematische Auswahl von Zeitreihendaten, die darauf ausgerichtet ist, die individuelle und gesellschaftliche Wohlfahrt sowie Dimensionen des sozialstrukturellen Wandels im europäischen Rahmen vergleichend zu messen und zu beobachten. Neben den Mitgliedsländern der Europäischen Union umfasst das Indikatorensystem zwei weitere europäische Länder sowie – soweit es die Datenlage erlaubt – mit Japan und den USA zwei nicht-europäische Referenzgesellschaften. Durch einen konzeptuellen Rahmen angeleitet, orientierte sich die Entwicklung des Europäischen Systems sozialer Indikatoren an drei Konzepten: Lebensqualität, soziale Kohäsion und Nachhaltigkeit. Während sich das Konzept der Lebensqualität auf Dimensionen der individuellen Wohlfahrt bezieht, umfassen die Konzepte der sozialen Kohäsion und Nachhaltigkeit Merkmale und Dimensionen der gesellschaftlichen oder kollektiven Wohlfahrt. Das Indikatorensystem ist zudem in insgesamt 13 Lebensbereiche untergliedert. Zeitreihendaten liegen für 9 Lebensbereiche vor, die voll implementiert wurden. Die Zeitreihen beginnen frühestens 1980 und enden in der Regel spätestens 2013. Soweit es die Datenquellen erlauben, umfassen die Zeitreihen jährliche Beobachtungswerte. Die Indikator-Zeitreihen sind überwiegend nach ausgewählten soziodemographischen Merkmalen untergliedert, wie Geschlecht, Altersgruppen, Erwerbsstatus oder Gebietsmerkmalen. Regionale Untergliederungen liegen – soweit sinnvoll und soweit es die Datenquellen erlauben – auf dem NUTS-1 oder ähnlichem Niveau vor. Das Europäische System sozialer Indikatoren stützt sich bevorzugt auf harmonisierte Datenquellen, die eine bestmögliche internationale und intertemporale Vergleichbarkeit gewährleisten. Die verwendeten Datenquellen umfassen sowohl Aggregatdaten der offiziellen Statistik, wie sie z.B. von EUROSTAT oder der OECD bereitgestellt werden, als auch Mikrodaten aus offiziellen und wissenschaftsbasierten internationalen Surveys, wie z.B. der Europäischen Erhebung über Einkommen und Lebensbedingungen (EU-SILC), den Eurobarometer und World Value Surveys oder dem European Social Survey. Das Europäische System sozialer Indikatoren ist das Ergebnis von Forschungsaktivitäten im Rahmen des früheren Zentrums für Sozialindikatorenforschung von GESIS, die zunächst als Teilprojekt des EuReporting-Projekts (Towards a European System of Social Reporting and Welfare Measurement) durchgeführt und von 1998 bis 2001 von der Europäischen Kommission über das 4. Europäische Forschungsrahmenprogramm gefördert wurden. Für ausführlichere Informationen zum Europäischen System sozialer Indikatoren vergleiche den Methodenbericht unter „andere Dokumente“. Die Daten zu dem Lebensbereich ‚Kriminalität und öffentliche Sicherheit‘ setzen sich wie folgt zusammen: Demographische und sozio-ökonomische Strukturen, Ungleichheiten, Ungleichheit und soziale Ausgrenzung, Humankapital, Objektive Lebensbedingungen, Werte und Haltungen.

Diseases of the Respiratory System: Effects are generally irritation and reduced lung function with increased incidence of respiratory disease, especially in more susceptible members of the population such as young children, the elderly and asthmatics. Diseases of the Respiratory System includes: ICD-9 BTL codes B31-B32, ICD-9 code CH08 for some ex-USSR countries, ICD-9 code C052 for China, ICD-10 codes J00-J99, European mortality indicator database (HFA-MDB), available at www.euro.who.int, for missing figures for some european countries: indicator "3250 Deaths, Diseases of the Respiratory System" The original dataset uses a value of -9999 to indicate no data available, i have substituted a value of 0. Online resource: http://geodata.grid.unep.ch URL original source: http://www3.who.int/whosis/mort/text/download.cfm?path=whosis,evidence,whsa,mort_download&language=english

In November 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush, visiting Europe for a NATO summit, declared that "should Iraqi President Saddam Hussein choose not to disarm, the United States will lead a coalition of the willing to disarm him." This dataset is a list of countries included in the "Coalition of the Willing." http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030327-10.html The original list prepared in March 2003 included 49 members. Of those 49, only four besides the U.S. contributed troops to the invasion force (the United Kingdom, Australia, Poland, and Denmark). 33 provided some number of troops to support the occupation after the invasion was complete. At least six members have no military. The war was deeply unpopular amongst the citizens of all the coalition countries except the United States and at least one, Costa Rica (which has no armed forces), requested in September 2004 to no longer be considered a member. Today the official White House list of the coalition shows 48 member states, however, the relevance of placing several of these members on the list has been questioned. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_willing#.22Coalition_of_the_willing.22 Accessed on 9 October 2007

Top 20 Barley Producers in 2006 of the world, as reported by the United States Department of Agriculture - Foreign Agricultural Service. Data source: USDA-FAS, Production, Supply and Distribution (PS&D) database. http://www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/psdHome.aspx Accessed on 12 Sept. 2007. * Note: European Union value was given to each of the 27 countries currently in the EU.