A fact sheet, factsheet or (in some industries) one-sheet is a presentation of data

Data

The term data refers to qualitative or quantitative attributes of a variable or set of variables. Data are typically the results of measurements and can be the basis of graphs, images, or observations of a set of variables. Data are often viewed as the lowest level of abstraction from which...

 in a format which emphasizes key points concisely. The layout is simple and often standardized, e.g. using a table, bullet points and/or headings, and is usually on a single printed page.

Fact sheets often contain product information, technical data, lists, statistics

Statistics

Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....

, answers to common questions (e.g. FAQ

FAQ

Frequently asked questions are listed questions and answers, all supposed to be commonly asked in some context, and pertaining to a particular topic. "FAQ" is usually pronounced as an initialism rather than an acronym, but an acronym form does exist. Since the acronym FAQ originated in textual...

s), educational material, or how-to, "do-it-yourself" advice. They are sometimes a summary of a longer document

Document

The term document has multiple meanings in ordinary language and in scholarship. WordNet 3.1. lists four meanings :* document, written document, papers...

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Examples

• Many college bookstores sell condensed study guides on various subjects, single pages of often-tabular information.
• NASA planetary fact sheets
• Fact sheets about animals
• The World Factbook, a CIA collection of tabular factsheets on various countries
• Fact Sheets on the European Union They provide readers with an overview of the process of European integration and the European Parliament’s role in this development. The content of these fact sheets covers six main areas: how the EU works, citizens’ Europe, the internal market, common policies, economic and monetary union and the EU’s external relations.

• List of egovernment factsheets
  Egovernment factsheets
  e-Government factsheets are periodical publications of the ePractice initiative which aim to promote good practice sharing among countries of Europe in the field of delivering electronic services to the benefit of Public Administrations, Businesses and Citizens.Published biannually, Egovernment...
  
  of countries in Europe