Statistics

Questions in PART 1

• What is the area of your professional activities?
• Do you use the World Wide Web as a resource for collecting information in your daily work?
• How do you find the information you retrieve from the Internet? 
• What structured hard data and which statistics in the area of International Relations and Security are relevant for your work?
• Would information in the form of country profiles be of interest for you?
• If you indicated above that you are interested, what information should be presented in such a country profile? 

Questions in PART 2

• What Internet information do you use most? 
• What do you use this information for?
• How would you classify the material you collect from the
  Internet for your purposes? 
• Let us assume that in a cooperative effort we are able to collect all the relevant International Security Internet sites under one "roof", in an interconnected and searchable system. If you were offered a comprehensive information system in International Relations and Security for finding all the information you need for your work, how would you evaluate this opportunity? 
• What would you expect to find in such a system? 
• As a user, today you have little possibility to influence the form and presentation of the result of your database searches. Would you work with Internet datasets if they were available?
• Would you like to be able to decide the content and form of the result of your searches?
• Would you like to have a system which allows you to compose your own tables from different datasets and to make specific calculations such as percentage or ratio figures?
• What is your geographical location? 

Questions in PART 3

• How would you classify the material you collect from the
  Internet for your purposes?
• How often do you quote Internet documents in your reports?
• Are you satisfied with the quality and reliability of the material
  you find?