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Statistical Sources
Indexes
Reference Works
General Statistical
Sites
Government
Department Statistics
International
Statistics
Indexes
WDI Online: World Development Indicators
WDI Online is a data source on the global economy,
containing statistical data for over 550 development indicators,
and time series data from 1960-2002 for over 200 countries and
18 country groups. Included are social, economic, financial,
natural resource, and environmental indicators. Results can
be scaled, indexed against a particular year, viewed by percentage
change, and charted. Data can be exported in standard formats
like Excel.*For Southwestern community only.
Reference
Works
You will find statistics collected
and reported in almanacs, directories,
handbooks, general encyclopedias
and statistical compilations.
Below are a few representative
print sources to get you started,
complete with call numbers:
America’s Top Rated
Cities: A Statistical Handbook
REFERENCE, 1st floor, 317.3 Am35
Business Statistics of the
United States
REFERENCE, 1st floor, 338 B964
Education Statistics of the
United States
REFERENCE, 1st floor, 370.21 Ed83
Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics
REFERENCE, 1st floor, 331.1 H191
Health, United States
REFERENCE, 1st floor, 362.1 H349
Gallup Poll
REFERENCE, 1st floor, 303.38 G138
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice
Statistics
REFERENCE, 1st floor, 364.021 So84
Statistical Abstract of the
United States
REFERENCE, 1st floor, 317.3 Un3s
A Statistical Profile of
the United States: Social Conditions
and Trends
REFERENCE, 1st floor, 306.0973 St296
Statistical Handbook on Women
In America
REFERENCE, 1st floor, 305.4 St29
Locate additional books containing
statistics by searching the online
catalog, combining the word statistics with
another subject term.
Examples:
crime and statistics
health and statistics
women and statistics
General
Statistical Sites
American
Demographics Magazine
American
Demographics magazine
tracks consumer trends.
The magazine may be accessed
through the multidisciplinary
database Academic
Search Elite. Current
issues are available in
Periodical Services.
American
FactFinder
A great source for population,
housing, economic and geographic
data. Also includes popular tables
and maps for the U.S., states,
counties, cities, towns, and
American Indian reservations.
Fast
Facts
By Gary Price, this site
provides statistics on any subject
or country. At the bottom of
the page is Gary
Price’s Excellent List of
Lists, a database of
ranked listings of companies,
people and resources freely available
on the Internet. Sample lists
include Top Ten Cities for Hispanics,
100 Best Companies for Working
Women, Top 100-Employee Owned
Companies and Best Business Schools.
FedStats
A good beginning point
to any statistical research project,
FedStats helps you locate which
agency in the government might
have collected information on
your topic. The site points to
data from over one hundred federal
statistical sites.
Fedstats-Mapstats
An offshoot of Fedstats,
Mapstats is organized by state
and county. Gives basic information
on agriculture, population, business,
crime, education, energy, etc.
Information
Please Almanac
This site includes world
and U.S. information, history
and government, biography, sports,
arts and entertainment, business
and finance, society and culture,
health and science, and weather.
Population Reference
Bureau
Gives
information on topics such as
children, education, estimates/projections,
fertility, foreign-born citizens,
income/poverty, labor/employment,
marriage/family, migration, mortality,
older population and race/ethnicity.
State
Health Facts Online
Developed and maintained
by the Kaiser Family Foundation,
this site offers current state-level
data on demographics, health,
health policy, financing health
coverage, access and state legislation.
Statistical
Abstract of the United States (Adobe
Acrobat required)
A great starting place for
locating important national statistics.
The annual Statistical Abstract includes
data from private as well as
government sources. It covers
a wide range of topics. The current
print edition of Statistical
Abstracts, which includes
a subject index, is available
at Reference 317.3 Un3s.
Statistical
Resources on the Web
Maintained by the government
documents center at the University
of Michigan Library, this metasite
links to pages containing statistics
for just about any topic.
Government
Department Statistics
Bureau
of Justice Statistics
A United States Department
of Justice site for statistics
on crimes, victims, drugs, criminal
offenders, law enforcement prosecution,
etc. Publications available on
the web site and in print in
Reference include: Sourcebook
of Criminal Justice Statistics,
Crime in the United States: Uniform
Crime Reports for the United
States and Correctional
Populations in the United States.
Bureau
of Labor Statistics
The Bureau collects and
publishes labor-related statistics
and reports. The BLS also publishes Monthly
Labor Review, a journal that
gives a wide variety of labor
statistics. Current issues may
be found in the Business and
Economic section of Periodical
Services.
Bureau
of the Census
The Census Bureau covers,
among other topics: population,
housing, retail and wholesale
sales, income, state and local
area profiles, and service industries
and manufacturing.
National
Center for Education Statistics
NCES collects national
and international statistics.
The Condition of Education, Digest of
Education Statistics, and Projections
of Educational Statistics, all
major NCES statistical annuals,
can be accessed electronically
from the NCES web site.
National
Center for Health Statistics
The NCHS web site provides
a wealth of information about
America’s health. Health, United
States is an annual publication
that provides a profile of figures
of the nation’s health.
The print publication is available
at Reference 362.1 H349.
International
Statistics
OFFSTATS:
Official Statistics on the
Web
Developed by the University
of Auckland, this site provides
statistical data by country and
topic, linking the user to recognized
international organizations,
governments, and educational
institutions that provide freely
accessible data.
State
of the World Population
This site releases annually
the State of the World Population
Report, highlighting global
hunger and poverty, HIV/AIDS,
gender discrimination, child
mortality, development goals
and guide to action.
United
Nations InfoNation (then
click on the "InfoNation" link)
This site enables users to
compare statistical data pertaining
to UN member states.
World Development Indicators
(CD-ROM)
This is an annual compilation
of data about development from
World Bank’s print publication,World
Development Indicators. The
WDI 2003 CD-ROM, located in Reference
Services, contains time-series
indicators for 208 countries
and 18 country groups, covering
1960 to 2001.World Development
Indicators 2003 can be found
at Reference 330.9 W893.
You can learn more about statistical
sources by consulting with a
reference librarian
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