-------- Original Message -------- Subject: FW: Email reference question: India Slum Population Statistics Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:23:06 +0000 From: Kollen, Chris <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Hi: I don't know if anyone has any experience accessing Indian Population data, but we've received the following question from a student. Below is his request: I am requesting help in researching statistical data for a Geographic Information Systems project. The project is on urban slum development in India, and I am looking for statistical data, preferably in a tabular format, to use in creating the features of an illustrative map. The ideal data set would be total population and population living in slums for as many large Indian cities as possible for as many time intervals as possible. I have found a website which claims to host such data prepared by the National Slum Development Programme of the Indian Federal Government, but the website wants a membership fee of $1000.00 to access the data. The website is indiastat.com and the page with the link to the data is: http://www.indiastat.com/urbanareas/31/slums/257/stats.aspx and the dataset I am interested in is "City wise Total Population and Slum Population in Million Plus Cities in India" towards the bottom of the page. I checked and the institutional membership for IndiaStat.com is $3,000. I've tried to contact them using their webform, but keep on getting error messages. Does anyone have access to this set of Indian statistics? Will this provide him what he's looking for? Does anyone have any ideas on other sources he could use? Thanks Chris Kollen Chris Kollen Research Support Services Librarian University of Arizona Library P.O. Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 [log in to unmask] 520-621-4869