International Organization Information / Research: 2006

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Prepared for Union of International Associations (Executive Council, 19-20 October 2006)
See also searchable PDF version (original titles, sub-headings, order and typography); also reports 1959-2006

Organization profiles / networks

• Yearbook of International Organizations (43rd edition): Successful continuation of the annual 5-volume cycle; information also made available on CD and as a web-based service

Quality and coverage: Considerable concern regarding the response rate by organizations to questionnaires, especially in electronic form; reversion to postal questionnaires despite the increased cost (posting largely abandoned since 2004 to cut costs). General concern about the decreasing editorial capacity to obtain and process information on increasingly larger numbers of organizations (who make some of it available on increasingly complex websites).