Global Education overview: India occupies 2.4% of the world’s land area, but contains 17% of the world’s population. Most Indians (69%) live in rural areas. Large cities include the capital New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai and Bangalore. During the past few decades migration to urban centres has increased giving birth to a large number of slums.
India's two letter country code is: .in
Country Information - Statistics
Census is conducted every 10 years in India
- last Census was in 2011
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District and City Census Documents 2001 – India
2001 > select your state to refine and look for city
District and City Census Documents 2011 – India
2011 > select your state to refine and look for city
Most of the information you require will be found on the Internet. Use the following skills to narrow your searches to discover relevant, trustworthy sites.
This assessment requires you to research a specific challenge or problem for a place that your teacher approves through collecting, representing, analysing and responding to a range of data that is both teacher-provided and student researched.
A great place to start is the country profiles in the New Internationalist. It will give you lots of useful data. Search under 'Article' and type in the name of the country you're studying. Look for the 'Country Profile' page. (You can only access this magazine at school).
Global Education overview: Indonesia is a chain of 17,000 islands stretching almost 4,000 kilometres from east to west. Indonesia’s territory includes the western-most province of Papua on the island of New Guinea.
Indonesia's two letter country code is: .id
Note: Indonesia uses .go NOT .gov to indicate a Government domain.
Country Information - Statistics
Census is conducted every 10 years in Indonesia
- last Census was conducted in 2010
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Purpose: Reason the information exists
Global Education overview: Most of Vietnam’s population of 88 million lives in the densely settled Red River and Mekong River deltas. Half of Vietnam’s population lives in urban areas. The major cities are Ho Chi Minh City (formerly named Saigon), Hanoi, the capital city and Haiphong.
Vietnam's two letter country code is: .vn
Country Information - Statistics
Note: Vietnam can also appear as Viet Nam
Census is conducted every 10 years in Vietnam
- last Census was conducted in April 2019 - data not available until 2020
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To make proposal/s for sustainable management in response to the identified challenge, use your 'Advanced Search' techniques in Google to search for successful proposals or projects that are being incorporated into the country of your choice or other countries who face these same challenges.
Examples from other Countries
Improving Sanitation in Developing Countries
Vietnam
National Targeted Programs for New Rural Development and Sustainable Poverty Reduction Support Program (NTPSP)
Download the PDF
India
Vikaspedia is a knowledge portal targeting specific country needs in the domain of social development.
Sustainable Development Goals and Gram Panchayats (Panchayats are Village Councils) - plans to improve poverty, education equity, water access and sanitation and health
Zotero can be set to the same Harvard AGPS (Australia) style that CiteAce uses, called 'Melbourne Polytechnic - Harvard'. Please read the instructions carefully.
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