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Contents World Guide 1995

Application overview;

To understand this program one should appreciate the fact that it fundamentally is an interface to a database. And how do you get information out of a database? First of all you select the unit(s) to view - in the World Guide 1995 you choose among 247 countries and regions. The second step is select from the 160 variables. You are then ready to reap what you have sown as you select a viewing method, such as a bar chart, a statistical map etc.

Step 1 - Select Countries;

The World Guide 1995 provides three different ways to select countries. You can select them directly on the map. Select countries from map is the default option, so when you start the program you will be presented with a world map. A second way is to select countries by name. When you use either of these two methods it is mainly a matter of clicking on a country in the map or a country name in the list.

The last selection method works quite differently, allowing you to select countries based on their value for a particular variable in the database. The Select countries by value method can be used in several steps, and be based on different variables, so it's more complex than the first two selection methods.

Using any one of the three different selection methods the result is the same: a selected group of countries. For some types of viewing formats and material, such as country maps, the value/map for a single country will presented. This is the active country, which will be the last country entered into the selected group. You can later change active country within your selected group.

Step 2 - Select Variable;

After putting together a selected group the next step is to select a variable. This is done in two steps; you first select a subject and then a specific variable. The database contains fourteen statistical and two text subjects. There is also a country map subject. If you, for example, click on the Agriculture subject icon the variables related to agriculture will be presented with values for the active country.

Step 3 - Presentation;

At this stage you have already reached some of the data, but you may want to view it in another format. The World Guide 1995 has a number of options in this respect. You can present statistical data in different graphs, in statistical maps and sorted lists. Any of these viewing formats can in turn be customized to suit your needs.

There are several viewing formats for the data:

1. Variable Information.

2. Statistical Map.

3. Bar Graph.

4. Line Graph

5. Population Pyramid.

6. Sorted List.

7. Text Document.

If you click on the Text Search button in the tool bar you can access and search the text database. Note that the text database is not dependent upon country and variable selection.

For a list of commands used in World Guide, see menus.


Select active year

Use this drop down to select the active year.


Show Map unzoomed

This button will get you back to the original view of the map. Use this button when you want to view the whole World.


Plus Button

The plus button will select all 247 countries / regions in World Guide


Line Graph

Select the variable you want to present in a Line Graph and click on the Line Graph icon. A Line Graph will be presented in a new window. There are various options available under the Graph-Layout menu item.

Move the cursor over the bars in the graph to read the exact value for each bar.

Use the Select countries command in the Graph menu to add and remove countries from the diagram. You can only add countries from the selected group that has previously been created while in Select Country. Countries presented in the graph are highlighted in the list.

Use the Window menu item to arrange the graph windows you have created.


Credits

Information Courtesy of:

Instituto del Tercer Mundo

Amnesty International

Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN

Instituto del Tercer Mundo

International Labour Organization

International Monetary Fund

The World Bank,

World Health Organisation

United Nations

United Nations Children's Fund

United Nation Conferance on Trade and Development

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization


Select countries from map

Clicking on a country with the left mouse button will select it. The last selected country will automatically become the active country. You can later change active country within the selected group in the drop down list in the tool bar.

You can use the continuous zoom function to view only part of the world. If you want to select one of the small countries on the map you will probably have to use the zoom function to see these countries on the map.

Note! You can only select currently existing countries on the map (see countries on the map).

When you move the cursor over the map the name of the country the cursor is pointing at is shown below the map. Use the right mouse button to get quick information about the country you are pointing at.

The button in the bottom left corner, with a minus sign on it, will deselect all countries.


Select countries by name

The left column, in the Select countries by name window, shows a list of continents. Selecting a continent will show the countries belonging to that continent in the middle column.

Clicking on a country name in the middle column will select the country. All selected countries will be tagged, and shown in the third column, Selected Countries. Clicking on a already selected country in the middle column will remove the country from the selected group.

A double click with the left mouse button on a country in the column Selected countries will give you Quick Information about that country.

The plus button [image] above the second column named Countries will select all countries shown in that column. The larger plus button [image] in the tool bar will select all countries / regions in World Guide.The minus button [image] in the tool bar , will deselect all countries / regions in the selected group.


Select countries by value

You can select a group of countries based on their value for one or more variables. To select by value follow these steps:

1 - Click on the subject in the first column containing the variable you want to use in the selection. The variables from this subject are shown in the variable list in the second column.

2 - Click on the variable in the middle column that you want to use for the selection.

3 - A sorted list of country values are shown in the lower half of the window.

4 - You can either type the two boundary values in the two boxes below the sorted list, or select two countries whose values will be used as range limits. It doesn’t matter in what order (upper or lower) the boundary values are entered.

5 - Click one of the query buttons to execute the selection. If you click on the Make Selection (OR) button you will extend the selected group of countries, since any country that matches the criteria will become selected. The Make Selection (AND) method, on the other hand, will only query the selected group, so this will reduce the size of the selected group.

Note! Since statistical data is used for selection it is also important that you make sure that the desired year is active.


Text database

The text database tools provides two different ways to find articles:

Word search: The word search method queries all text documents from Amnesty International and World Guide , including country texts and articles on special topics.

Theme Text Tree: The theme text database tree contains only those articles from World Guide-the world as seen by the third world that are not related to a specific country.


Make Selection (AND)

The Make Selection (AND) button removes all countries from the Selected Group that does not fall within the specified range. The AND query method requires that a country both meets any old selection, and this can be both from the map, the list or from a previous query, and the new query. Another way of putting this is to say that the AND query searches the selected group for countries that fall within the stated limits.

AND means;’‘fulfill the previous criteria AND the new criteria, to be selected.’‘

So if you do not have any selected countries this button will be greyed out..


Make Selection (OR)

Clicking the Make Selection (OR) button simply adds the countries within the specified range to the Selected Group.

The OR query method will leave the selected group intact, and add those who meet the new criteria.Or means;’‘fulfill the previous criteria OR the new criteria, to be selected.’‘

So if you are looking to get rid of a few countries this is not the button to push.


Word search

In the word search database you can search for any word or combination of words in all the text documents on the CD-ROM.

The word search database consists of articles from the Amnesty International Report and from the  World Guide, the world as senn by the third world, including both material concerning specific countries and texts on special interest topics. You can use operators and wild cards in your search to make the search as effective as possible.

There are also several options to limit the search to certain countries, geographic areas, etc.


Theme text tree

This part of the text database contains articles of current interest. The articles are selected from a tree structure where you start by selecting a main topic. After you have chosen your main topic, select subtopics until you reach the actual text.

The subtopic's titles are displayed in hollow boxes. As you click on the subtopics, these boxes are connected by a line, creating a path in the tree structure. The actual text document’s titles are displayed in grey boxes. Clicking on a grey box will display the theme text.


World Guide - the book
World Guide the book

The World Guide - the world as seen by the third world is an annual publication about all countries in the world. It contains both country presentations, history etc., and articles on current topics in the world community.

The book also contains statistics and maps, some of which are used in this program as well.

For more information about the book ‘‘The World Guide’‘, please see the theme text tree in the text database.

Editor-in-chief: Roberto Remo Bissio.

Managing editor: Amelia Villaverde.

Translation Editors: Carol Milk, Sarah Mason, Beatriz Sosa Martínez and Kathleen Loughlin.

Research Staff: Brenda Falcón, Gustavo Gómez and Laura Harispe.

Editing staff: Víctor L. Bacchetta, co-editor; Ana Elena Guyer, Felipe Monestier and Alvaro Pan, central staff; Roberto Elissalde, Sandra Lampreia, Matías Prado, Daniel Gatti, Daniel Mazzone, Diana Cariboni, Daniel Erosa, Alejandro Albarracín and Wáshington Fernández, assistant editors; Anatoli Voronov, Heraclio Labandera, Wáshington Estellano, Luis Caldera, Guillermo González, Mario Handler, Hakan Lundgren, Hugo Machín, María Urruzola, Paula Cladera, Luis Cladera, V. Rzhanitsina, S. Agadshanov, N. Bekmajanova, V. Grosul, E. Istomina, N. Narbaev, V. Trepavlov, E. Fedoseeva and L. Sheremet, contributors.

Translators: Irene Moyna and Raquel Núñez.

Library: Raquel Agazzi and Ana Pioli.

Art director: Mario Burgueño.

Graphic designers: Nella Peniza and Ricardo Ramón.

Art department: Pacris Kelbauskas, Ignacio Carriquiry, Teo Visaires and Gustavo Fariello.

Data entry: Teresa Smith.

Computers and communications: Miguel Peirano, Gabriel Seré y Christopher Teakle.

Cover design: Ton Ellemers

Administrator: Rosario Lema

Administration staff: Ana Calviño, Isabel Trivelli, Leonardo Martínez and Walter Sena.

Sales manager: Alberto Brusa y Raúl Gebelin.

Negatives: Typeworks.

Instituto del Tercer Mundo

Juan D. jackson1136, Montevideo 11200, Uruguay

Phone: 598 2 496192 Fax: 598 2 41 9222.

Electronic mailboxes: item@chasque.apc.org.

copyright c 1992 by Instituto del Tercer Mundo

Guia del tercer mundo published in 1979, 1981, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991

Guia del Mundo 93/94  published in 1992

Third world guide published in 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1990 y1992

Guia do terceiro mundo published in 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 y 1989

All rights reserved. This book, its text, maps and graphs can not be reproduced, photocopied, stored or conveyed totally by means of any mechanical or electronic systemwithout prior consent from the Instituto del tercer Mundo, which undertakes to support the utilization of this material for education purposes and by non-profit institutions of the Third World.


Zoom function
Continuous zoom function

Click-drag with the left mouse button somewhere in the map to create a zoom rectangle The trick is that you can both change the size of the selected area, and move the box. You can not move the box so far that the insertion point would no longer be inside the selected area.

If you find the zoom function difficult to use, try placing the cursor half an inch above the area of interest and click-drag straight down. The rectangle that indicates the zoomed area always has the same dimensions as the window it will fill.

When you have zoomed in over an area you can adjust the view by using the scroll bars.

To zoom out  use the Show unzoomed command in the Map menu. You can olso use the [image] button in the tool bar.


Countries on the map

The map only shows countries and regions existing today. To select countries like the Soviet union, West and East Germany, etc., you must use the Select countries by name or Select countries by Value methods.


Small countries

Countries on the map with a size below a certain area are shown as circles - not with teir actual borders - this to make them easier to see and select.


Quick Information

Clicking with the right mouse button in a map will display the Quick Information window for the country the cursor is pointing at. The exclamation mark button next to the country list in the tool bar will also bring up the quick information window.

The Quick Information window contains:

1 Basic indicators for the country.

2 A map of the country and the surrounding region.

3 The country's profile text from the book World Guide.

The country will not be added to your group. To add countries to the selected group in the map you always use the left mouse button in the map window.


Minus Button

The minus button will clear the selected group.


Classes

The program automatically creates a map with the countries divided into five groups with the same value width. After choosing the Classes command in the Map menu you will be presented with a dialog window where you can change the number of classes, the class width and the number of countries in each class. The number of classes can be between one and twenty-five.

Equal number of countries: Use this function to create a map with the same number of countries in each class.

Same range width: Use this function to create classes with the same value width. The range width function is = (max. value - min. value) / number of classes.

By default the program will base it’s class division on all countries on the map. You can change this by specifying another group to base the class division on.

In the class division diagram you can create your own classes. Position the cursor on the dotted vertical line that you want to move. Press down the mouse button and drag the vertical line to it’s new position. The area/height of the bars in the diagram represent the number of countries in each class.

You can also type in the minimum and maximum value for each class in the edit boxes ‘‘Min:’‘ and ‘‘Max:’‘.


Text search operators
Operators

OR

Search: ‘‘gold or silver’‘.

The result will include documents with either gold or silver. It is enough that the document contains one of the words to be in the selection.

The vertical bar ‘‘|’‘ has the same meaning as the operator OR.

AND

Search: ‘‘gold and silver’‘

The result is that documents with both gold and silver are selected.

The ampersand ‘‘&’‘ has the same meaning as the operator AND.

( )

Search: gold and (silver or river)

The document must contain the word gold, plus one of the words silver or river to be in the selection.

The same search with out the parentheses would result in another selection of documents.

Search: gold and silver or river

All documents that contain both gold and silver will be in the selection, as will all documents that contains the word river.

Tip! Use the Find next command in the Edit menu to highlight the search word(s) in the document.


Wild Cards

Wild Card - *

Example: rev*

Will match all words beginning with ‘‘rev’‘, such as revolution, revision, reverence, etc.

Wild Card  - ?

Example: arm?

Will watch any word that begins with ‘‘arm’‘ and is four letters long, such as army, arms, etc.


Selected Group

The group of countries that you have selected is shown with the help of this drop down list. To change active country click on the drop down list and select the country that you are interested in.


Buttons

In the tool bar are a number of buttons that are used to present the statistics.

If you for example select a text subject, for instance the Amnesty International Report 1994, only the button for presenting text documents will be available ( You can't view a text document in a diagram ). For most statistical data the following buttons will be enabled: Information, Bar Graph, Line Graph and Statistical Map. The Population Pyramid button is only available when Age Distribution in the subject Demography is the selected variable.

The buttons are:

1. Information - statistical data.

2. Statistical map - statistical data.

3. Bar Graph - statistical data.

4. Line Graph - statistical data.

5. Population Pyramid - only available for the variable Age distribution in Demography.

6. Sorted List - statistical data.

7. Document - text documents.

The buttons will be dimmed if the view format is not applicable for the selected variable, or if data is missing.


Variable information

Click on the information button to get information about the active variable. The variable information window displays full variable name, the source from which the variable is extracted, and which year the variable's value comes from.

For some of the values in the database the actual year differ from the active year. The reason for this is lacking availability of values for every country and every statistical year included in the World Guide. Values with a different year than the active are always earlier than the active year. For example, a statistical value for 1982 can represent 1983 in the database, whereas a value from 1984 can not.

In the Comment box further information is provided for some variables. This content can be an explanation of how the variable is calculated, if it is an estimated value, or some other information that may be useful when analyzing the data.


Statistical map

The default statistical map created by the program divides the countries into five classes with the same value width. The name and value of the country that the cursor is pointing at in the map is shown at the bottom left corner of the screen.

Move the cursor over the map to see the value for any country you are interested in. The color of a country in the statistical map depends on the country's value for the selected variable.


Bar Graph

Select the variable you want to present in a Bar Graph and click on the bar graph icon. A Bar Graph will be presented in a new window. There are various options available under the Graph-Layout menu item.

Move the cursor over the bars in the graph to read the exact value for each bar.

Use the Select countries command in the Graph menu to add and remove countries from the diagram. You can only add countries from the selected group that has previously been created while in Select Country. Countries presented in the graph are highlighted in the list.

Use the Window menu item to arrange the graph windows you have created.


Population pyramid

The population pyramid is available for the variable Age Distribution in the subject Demography. The population pyramid button is enabled only when the variable Age Distribution is selected in the Demography group. Clicking on the button creates a population pyramid for the active country. To compare two pyramids/countries in the same diagram use Graph-Choose countries to add and remove countries in the graph.


Sorted list

Choose the variable that you are interested in and click on the Sorted list button. A sorted list is displayed in a new window with the active country highlighted. Use the scroll bars to move up or down in the list. The country with the highest value is ranked as number one.

Countries that don't have a value are not given any rank number, and are shown at the bottom of the list.


Document

Select the text subject you are interested in and click on the document button. The number of texts varies between different countries. Greyed out text subjects are not available for the active country.

Use the drop down list in the tool bar to select another country from within the selected group.


Select variable

After you click on the subject icon a list of all variables available for the subject is shown in the window. The values shown on the screen are for the active country. The name of the active country is shown in the upper right corner of the screen.

(Use the drop down boxes in the tool bar change active country and active year.)

The first column shows the name of the variable, and the second column shows the corresponding values for the active country. The third column shows the active country's  rank compared to the other countries in the world. The country with the highest value for the variable will be ranked as number one. Only countries with a value are given a rank number.

Use the buttons in the tool bar to view the statistical data in a graph, a sorted list, a statistical map or a population pyramid.


Select subject

The database is divided into seventeen subjects. Fourteen of the subjects contain statistical information, two contains text documents, and one contains country maps. From every subject you can select a variable.

Click on any subject to see the variables of that subject:


Basic indicators

Population mill.

Area square km.

Population density per square km.

Annual increase in population %

Estimated population year 2000 mill.

Estimated population year 2025 mill.

Life expectancy at birth years

Gross National Product/capita US$

Real growth rate of GNP %

Literacy % of aged 15 and older

UN Human Development Index


Demography

Population mill.

Annual increase in population %

Infant mortality rate per 1000 births

Life expectancy at birth years

Life expectancy at birth, male years

Life expectancy at birth, female years

Live births per 1000 population

Deaths per 1000 population

Urban population % of total population

Annual growth of urban population %

Age distribution see the Sex and age subject.


Sex and age

Age group 0-4 years % of population

Age group 5-9 years % of population

Age group 10-14 years % of population

Age group 15-19 years % of population

.   .   .

Age group 75-79 years % of population

Age group 80+ years % of population

Age group 0-4 years, male % of population

.   .   .

Age group 80+ years, male % of population

Age group 0-4 years, female % of population

.   .   .

Age group 80+ years, female % of population


International economy

Exchange rate national currency per US$

Gross international reserves mill. US$

Gross international reserves/capita US$

Total external debt mill. US$

Total external debt per capita US$

All food items % of exports

Agricultural raw materials % of exports

Fuels % of exports

Ores and metals % of exports

Manufactured goods % of exports

Unallocated exports % of exports

All food items % of imports

Agricultural raw materials % of imports

Fuels % of imports

Ores and metals % of imports

Manufactured goods % of imports

Unallocated imports % of imports

The six export and the six import categories should add up to 100%.


National economy

Gross Domestic Product mill. US$

Gross National Product/capita US$

Average ann. rate of inflation %

Consumer price index 1987=100

Gross domestic investment % of GDP

Agricultural production % of GDP

Industrial production % of GDP

Production of services etc. % of GDP

Agricultural production, average annual growth rate %

Industrial production, average annual growth rate %

Production of services etc., average annual growth rate %


Agriculture

Per capita food production 1979-81=100

Wheat, yield kg/ha. cultivated land

Cereals, yield kg/ha. cultivated land

Cereals, total production 1000 tons

Cereals, production/capita kg.

Arable land and land under permanent crops % of total land area

Forests and woodland % of total land area


Labour force

Economically active men % of male population

Economically active women % of female population

Labour force in industry % of labour force

Labour force in agriculture % of labour force

Labour force in services, etc. % of labour force

Real earnings per employee 1987=100

Real output per employee 1987=100

Earnings as percent of value added %


Standard of living

People with drinkable water %

Child mortality children < 5 y., per 1000

Gross National Product/capita US$

Motor vehicles in use per 1000 inhabitants

Telephones in use per 1000 inhabitants

TV receivers in use per 1000 inhabitants

Radio receivers in use per 1000 inhabitants


Public finance

Government expenditure % of GDP

Defense percent of central gov. exp. %

Education percent of central gov. exp. %

Health percent of central gov. exp. %

Domestic taxes on goods and services, % of total government current revenue

Off. development ass., receipts US$/capita

Off development ass. % of donor GNP


Private consumption

Private consumption % of GDP

Private consumption/capita 1987 US$

Daily calorie supply/capita calories

Private consumption, average annual growth rate %


Health

Inhabitants per physician

Infant mortality rate < 1 year per 1000 births

Births attended by health staff %

Married women of childbearing age using contraception %

Number of AIDS-cases

Number of AIDS-cases per 100,000 inhabitants


Education

Literacy +15 years %

Literacy, male +15 years %

Literacy, female +15 years %

Number of pupils per teacher

Children in school %

Enrollment ratio, men, 1st and 2nd levels %

Enrollment ratio, women, 1st and 2nd levels %

Higher education, 3rd level % of aged 20-24


Culture

Number of produced films

Number of imported films

Number of published books, first editions

Number of published books per 100,000 inhabitants

Number of newspapers per 1000 inhabitants


Environment

Annual deforestation % of total forest

Greenhouse effect rate coal equivalent per capita

Fertilizer consumption kg. of plant nutrient per ha.. of arable land

Agriculture, arable and permanently cropped land 1000 ha..

Commercial energy prod. 1000 MT oil eq.

Commercial energy prod. kg./capita

Consumption of commercial energy per capita kg. of coal equivalents


Amnesty text

Click on the Amnesty International button to read the Amnesty International Report for the active country. In addition to the Amnesty report you can get the address of the local Amnesty International section. The address to Amnesty's International Secretariat is provided given for countries with no local section.

Text: Amnesty International Report 1992.

Text: Amnesty International Report 1993.

Text: Amnesty International Report 1994.

Address: Address to local Amnesty office.


Country text

Text from the book The World Guide is available for every country in the database.

The texts are divided into a number of different subjects - articles. The subjects are:

Indicators: Brief statistic information about the country.

History: The country's historical background.

Profile: Profile of the country and it’s people.

Special: General article about some aspect of the country.

Select the subject you are interested in and click on the [image] Document button. The number of articles varies between different countries. Dimmed subjects indicate that this subject is not available for the active country.


Country map

The map subject has only one ‘‘variable’‘, and that is a country map in .shown in BMP format. If you click on the Country map subject the map will be displayed in a new window.

Use the copy command in the edit menu to export it to another document.You will then have the map in BMP-format. If you choose to print the map direct from World Guide will it be printed in Post Script format


Theme texts

Theme texts are not connected to a specific country, and are available only if you click on the Text search button in the tool bar. You can then access the theme texts using either the word search method or the theme text tree.


Tool Bar

Along the top of the main window there is a tool bar a number of buttons that will change depending on where in the program you are. The tool bar is used to move back and forth between the screens in the World Guide. You will also use the tool bar when you change active country and active year

To change countries in the selected group you click on the Select Countries button in the tool bar.

Click on Select Subject to set the active subject. When you click on a subject icon you will automatically move on to the variable window.

Click on the Text search button to search the text database.

Drop Down lists

The first drop down list shows the selected group of countries, with the active country highlighted.

The second list shows the active year. This list will only be displayed in contexts where you can change active year.


Menus

The following menus are available in the World Guide:

File

Edit

Map

Graph

List

Window

Help

The Map, Graph and List menus contains commands for the corresponding window/object.


File menu

Save

Add variable

Export

Print

Printer set-up

Exit


Save - file menu
Save command (File menu)

The save command is only implemented for text files, i.e., you can save articles and the sorted list as text documents. If you want to export graphical material like maps and diagrams you must use the copy command


Add variable - file menu
Add variable  (File menu)

This command is used to add variables for export. Before you can use this command you must be in the variable window, and have a statistical variable selected.

There are two rules to follow:

1. Only values for countries belonging to the selected group will be exported.

2. If you want to export time series you must select every year specifically.

See the export command for more information.


Export - file menu
Export  (File menu)

Using this command will present a dialog window where you can customize and execute the export of statistical data to a text file. You should, of course, previously have selected one or more variables with the Add variable command.

The buttons have the following functions:

Move up - Move Down - changes the order of the variables in the list, and, more importantly, how they are ordered in the text file. This means that you can select variables and years in any order, and decide about the structure of the text file later.

Delete all - Delete - Removes variables from the selection.

Text... - allows you to change the column delimiter. The default is ‘‘tab’‘, which is usually accepted by spreadsheet programs.

Export... - a save dialog window is opened, where you supply a path/location and file name.

Cancel - closes the window. This does not affect the current selection of variables.

Note that values are only exported for selected countries!

International users may need to change the set-up for number formatting in the Windows control panel to get a correct result when importing the text file to a spreadsheet. See the manual for Windows or for the spreadsheet program for more information.


Print - file menu
Print command (File menu)

This command is not used in this version of the program.


Printer setup - file menu
Printer set-up command (File menu)

This command is not used in this version of the program.


Exit - file menu
Exit command (File menu)

Use this command to end your World Guide session.


Edit menu
Edit

Cut

Copy

Paste

Delete

Find next

Language


Cut - edit menu
Cut command (Edit menu)

This command is not used in this version of the program.


Copy - edit menu
Copy command (Edit menu)

Use this command to copy selected text or graphics to the clipboard.

Copying text or graphics to the Clipboard replaces the contents previously stored there.


Paste - edit menu
Paste command (Edit menu)

This command is not used in this version of the program.


Delete - edit menu
Delete command (Edit menu)

This command is only used in the word search part of the text database.


Find next - edit menu
Find next (Edit menu)

If you query the text database using search words you can highlight the search word in the documents with this command.


Language - edit menu
Language (Edit menu)

You can choose between English, Spanish and Swedish. If you select Swedish the English database will be used, but the variable text and menus will be in Swedish.


Map menu

Show unzoomed

Show Countries

Show country borders

Create map

Classes

Year

Color

Projection


Show unzoomed - map menu
Show Unzoomed (Map menu)

Use this command to return to a view with the whole world in the map after zooming in.


Show countries - map menu
Show Countries (Map menu)

Use this option to view part of the map in the window. Available choices are:

All countries

Selected countries

Africa

Asia

Central America

Europe

North America

Oceania

South America


Show country borders - map menu
Show Country Borders (Map menu)

This command toggles whether the country borders are shown in the map or not.


Create map - map menu
Create map (Map menu)

This command creates a statistical map in a new window. It performs the same action as when you click on the statistical map button.


Classes - map menu
Classes (Map menu)

Use this option to change the number of classes, the class width or the number of countries in each class. The number of classes must be between one and 25.

You can also choose to base the class division on a subset of countries. Available choices are:

All countries

Selected countries

Africa

Asia

Central America

Europe

North America

Oceania

South America

(for more information, see Classes)


Year  - map menu
Year (Map menu)

Change year to show in the statistical map.


Color - map menu
Color (Map menu)

Change colors in the map.

You can change the colors of

Borders

Countries

Selected countries

Water

Note that this command does not affect the colors of countries in the statistical map. To change colors in the statistical map you should click on the colored box next to the value key in the top left corner of the window.

Tip! If you plan to print the map in black and white you should set the color of water to white.


Projection - map menu
Projection (Map menu)

Use this option to change the map projection. You can choose between Mercator and the van der Grinten projections.


Graph menu

Create graph

Choose countries

Choose years

Layout


Create graph - graph menu
Create graph (Graph menu)

Creates a graph, of chosen kind, in a new window. This command can also be used to change a bar graph to a line graph and the other way around, or a 2-dimensional pyramid to a 3-dimensional.

Bar graph select a bar graph.

Line graph select a line graph.

2D pyramid select a 2-dimensional population pyramid.

3D pyramid select a 3-dimensional population pyramid.

Tip! You can create graphs by clicking on the Graph button in the variable window as well.


Choose countries - graph menu
Select  countries (Graph menu)

Select countries to be included in graph.


Choose years - graph menu
Choose years (Graph menu)

Select years to be included in a graph.


Layout - graph menu
Layout (Graph menu)

In the layout menu you have several options available to customize graphs. Note that some of the commands only have effect on certain types of graphs.

Title change the title font in a diagram.

Vertical rule toggle the vertical background grid in the diagram on or off.

Horizontal rule toggle the horizontal background grid in the diagram on or off.

Scale from zero toggles the scale used in a diagram between auto and zero. In some cases auto mode will scale from zero as well.

Thick lines toggles between thick and thin lines in line diagrams.

Point markers turns on/off the dot value indicator in line diagrams.

Swap pyramids it is possible to view two countries in a population pyramid window, and this command moves the front pyramid to the back.


List menu

Create list

Choose countries

Year


Create list - list menu
Create list (List menu)

Creates a sorted list in a new window.

Tip! You can create a sorted list by clicking on the Sorted List button in the variable window as well.


Choose countries - list menu
Choose countries (List menu)

Select countries to show in the sorted list. Available options are:

All countries

Selected countries

Africa

Asia

Central America

Europe

North America

Oceania

South America


Year - list menu
Year (List menu)

Change the year to show in the sorted list.


Window menu

Tile

Cascade

Arrange all

Move window

Close all


Tile - window menu
Tile (Window menu)

Use this command to arrange all document windows in a tiled display. This command does not affect the size or position of the main window.


Cascade - window menu
Cascade (Window menu)

Use this command to arrange all document windows in a cascaded display. This command will affect all windows, including the main window..


Arrange all - window menu
Arrange all (Window menu)

Use this command to arrange all document windows. The effect of this command depends on how many document windows you have open.


Move window - window menu
Move window (Window menu)

Use this command to move the active windows to a predefined positions on the screen.


Close all - window menu
Close all (Window menu)

Closes all document windows, that is, all windows except the for the main window.


Help menu

Index

About


Index - help menu
Index (Help menu)

Starts the help program.


About - help menu
About (Help menu)

Displays the program’s About box.