Overview The Office of the Geographer and Global Issues at the U.S. Department of State produces the Large Scale International Boundaries (LSIB) dataset. The current edition is...

The Foreign Service Act of 1980 mandated a comprehensive revision to the operation of the Department of State and the personnel assigned to the US Foreign Service. As the...

The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is the largest commitment by any nation to address a single disease in history. Panorama Spotlight is the primary...

The OECD Family database is an on-line database on family outcomes and family policies with indicators for all OECD countries. Coverage also includes EU Member States that are...

The State Departments issues a Travel Advisory for each country of the world. Travel Advisories follow a consistent format and use plain language to help U.S. citizens find and...

Travel Alerts are issued to disseminate information about short-term conditions, generally within a particular country, that pose imminent risks to the security of U.S....

At a time when OECD and partner countries are trying to figure out how to reduce burgeoning debt and make the most of shrinking public budgets, spending on education is an...

The OECD regional database is delivered through the viewer OECD eXplorer, an interactive mapping tool designed to let users explore, download and visualize data with maps,...

Foreign Per Diem rates are established monthly by the Office of Allowances as maximum U.S. dollar rates for reimbursement of U.S. Government civilians traveling on official...

This dataset shows the number of nonimmigrant visa issuances organized by visa category (including dependent categories) and nationality for Fiscal Years 1997-2014.

While enrolment in tertiary education has increased dramatically over the past decades, many university-aged students do not enrol, nor do they expect to earn a university...

The OECD Gender Data Portal, www.oecd.org/gender/data, includes 40+ selected indicators shedding light on gender inequalities in education, employment and entrepreneurship. Data...

The Foreign Service Act of 1980 mandated a comprehensive revision to the operation of the Department of State and the personnel assigned to the US Foreign Service. As the...

The Office of the Historian is responsible, under law, for the preparation and publication of the official historical documentary record of U.S. foreign policy in the Foreign...

Geo-Political TAGS consist of two-letter codes for countries and world regions. The country codes are taken from the Federal Information Processing Standards Publication No. 10...

Are there computers in the classroom? Does it matter? Students, Computers and Learning: Making the Connection examines how students’ access to and use of information and...

Travel Advisories are issued to describe long-term, protracted conditions that make a country dangerous or unstable. A Travel Advisory is also issued when the U.S. Government's...

The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) surveys collected data on students’ performances in reading, mathematics and science, as well as contextual...

Valid passports by calendar year, starting in 1989

What does PISA actually assess? This book presents all the publicly available questions from the PISA surveys. Some of these questions were used in the PISA 2000, 2003 and 2006...