The Cultures and Globalization Series analyzes the relationships between cultural change and globalization. The various indicator suites in Part II offer mainly quantitative information about the specific themes covered in each volume. Data collected for these indicator suites come from sources available on the Internet or elsewhere and are based on a broad range of secondary data. Such a strategy undoubtedly has the advantage of cost-eficiency relative to the wide scale and scope of information the suites cover and present using information graphics. It also has drawbacks: while relevant information for the purposes of the Series is increasingly available online, some is not, and much suffers from a time-lag ...