Statistical Information Guide

United States

US: Major Sources

• Census (Most comprehensive source for U.S. demographic, economic, and governmental data) - Main Site. Other useful links: Statistical Abstracts; American Factfinder; Identify Census Tracts for Addresses with the FFIEC Geocoding System; Statistics in Brief; Historical Census Browser (University of Virginia Library)
• Fedstats (Gateway to statistics from federal agencies, including the areas of agriculture, crime, demographics, economics, education, energy, environment, health, natural resources, safety, and transportation) - FedStats.gov
• Historical Statistics of the United States (Social and economic statistics of the United States from colonial times to 2000) - Log in (AU Community Only)
• Lexis Nexis Statistical (Includes selection of digitized full-text documents) - Log in (AU Community Only)

US: Criminial Justice

• Major Sources: Bureau of Justice Statistics; FBI Uniform Crime Reports; White House: Social Statistics Briefing Room: Crime

• Capital punishment - U.S. Department of Justice: Capital Punishment Statistics
• Corrections - U.S. Department of Justice: Corrections Statistics
• Courts and sentencing - U.S. Department of Justice: Courts and Sentencing Statistics
• Criminal offenders - U.S. Department of Justice: Criminal Offenders Statistics, Criminal Sentencing, and Probation and Parole
• Drug use, Illegal - U.S. Department of Drug Enforcement: Statistics
• Firearm use - U.S. Department of Justice: Firearms and Crime
• Hate crimes - Federal Bureau of Investigation: Hate Crime Statistics
• Law Enforcement Officers - Federal Bureau of Investigation: Law Enforcement Officers Killed or Assaulted
• Prisoners - U.S. Department of Justice: Prisons, Jails, Prisoners; Federal Bureau of Prisons: Weekly Population Report
• Prosecution - U.S. Department of Justice: Prosecution Statistics
• Victims, crime - U.S. Department of Justice: Crime and Victims Statistics

US: Demographics, Population and Housing

• Demographics - U.S. Census Bureau: American FactFinder, State and County QuickFacts, Statistical Abstracts, County and City Data Book, State and Metropolitan Area Data Book ; White House: Social Statistics Briefing Room: Demography; University of Virginia Library: Historical Census Browser, Historical County and City Data Books; Current Population Survey
• Housing - U.S. Census Bureau: American Housing Survey; National Low Income Housing Coalition: Go to 'Out of Reach' publication for desired year
• Neighborhood Profiles - Yahoo! Real Estate: Neighborhood Profiles
• Population clock, current - U.S. Census Bureau: POPClock Projection
• Religion - American Religion Data Archive; Adherents.com; Demographia: Christian and Jewish religious membership in the U.S.: 1960 and 1995, Christian Church Membership in the U.S.: 1960-2002
• State rankings - U.S. Census Bureau: State Rankings

US: Economics

• Major Sources: U.S. Census Bureau: Economic Census (includes Statistics of U.S. Businesses, County Business Patterns, Full range of Census Bureau Economic Programs), Statistical Abstracts, State Rankings; Bureau of Labor Statistics; White House: Economic Statistics Briefing Room

• Company directories and records - Yahoo! Company Directories; EDGAR (records of publically-traded companies that have been electronically filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission since 1994); Big Book
• Company-specific financials - MERGENT Online (AU Community Only)
• Consumer Price Index - Bureau of Labor Statistics: Cosumer Price Indexes
• Consumer spending - Bureau of Labor Statistics: Consumer Expenditure Survey Program
• Cost-of-Living - American Institute for Economic Research: Calculator (data from 1913 forward); DataMasters
• Data Sets - National Bureau of Economic Research: Data (Data sets)
• Economic Indicators - U.S. Census Bureau: Economic Indicators; GPO Access: Council of Economic Advisors: Economic Indicators
• Economic Report of the President - GPO Access
• Employment and Unemployment - Bureau of Labor Statistics; U.S. Census Bureau: Labor Force Statistics; White House: Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Employment
• Exchange rates - RatesFX; UBC Sauder School of Business: PACIFIC Exchange Rate Service (includes historical foreign exchange rates)
• Federal Budget - GPO Access
• Income, Individual - FedStats: Income Topic Listing; White House: Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Income
• Inflation - NASA: Inflation calculators
• Interest rates - Federal Reserve Statistical Release
• Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics; Fedstats: Labor Topic Listing
• Miscellaneous - OSU Fisher College of Business: Financial Data Finder
• Money Supply - Federal Reserve (monthly statistics from 1959 forward); White House: Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Money
• Occupational Demographics - Bureau of Labor Statistics: Current Population Survey; American Medical Association: Physician Statistics; American Bar Association: Statistical Resources
• Online business periodicals - Forbes; Fortune; Business Week
• National Economic Accounts - Bureau of Economic Analysis: National Economic Accounts
• Non-profits and Charity - National Center for Charitable Statistics
• Poverty - U.S. Census Bureau: Poverty Data
• Prices - White House: Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Prices
• Retail trade - U.S. Census Bureau: Monthly Retail Trade Survey, Annual Retail Trade Survey, Quarterly Retail E-Commerce Sales
• Salaries - Bureau of Labor Statistics: Wages by area and occupation
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings of public companies - EDGAR
• Social Security - Social Security Online: Statistical Compilations
• Stock market quotes - StockMaster.com; Yahoo! Finance: Major U.S. Indices, Stock Research Center
• Trade - Office of Trade and Industry Information: Trade Stats Express, International Trade Administration: Exporter Database, U.S. Census Bureau: Foreign Trade Statistics

US: Education

• Major Sources - National Center for Education Statistics; U.S. Census Bureau: American FactFinder (go to Data Sets, use Summary File 3); Education Trust: Ed Watch Interactive State & National Data Site; White House: Social Statistics Briefing Room: Education; SchoolMatters

• Academic Research and Development - National Science Foundation: Research and Development: Academic
• Child care - U.S. Census Bureau: Child Care
• Dropouts - National Center for Education Statistics: Public High School Dropouts and Completers
• Learning Disabilities/ADHD - The National Health Interview Survey (go to the summary about U.S. Children) ties demographics to learning disabilities and ADHD
• Library statistics - Association of Research Libraries: ARL Statistics
• Literacy - Portland State University: Adult Literacy Estimates
• Physics education - American Institute of Physics: Education and Employment Data
• Projections - National Center for Education Statistics: Projections of Education Statistics
• School enrollment and attendance - U.S. Census Bureau: School Enrollment; the National Health Interview Survey (go to the summary about U.S. Children) ties demographics to school-loss days
• Schools and Libraries - National Center for Education Statistics: Searches for Colleges, Public Schools and Districts, Private Schools, and Public Libraries
• Science and Engineering Education - National Science Foundation: Education Statistics

US: Environment and Energy

• Air Quality - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Air Quality Planning & Standards
• Climate - National Climatic Data Center: Climate Data Search, Get/View Online Climate Data; National Water and Climate Center: Climate Data, Snow data
• Earthquakes - U.S. Geological Survey: National Earthquake Information Center
• Emissions - Energy Information Administration: Energy-Related Emissions Data & Environmental Analyses
• Energy - Energy Information Administration: Official Energy Statistics from the U.S. Government
• Environment - Environmental Protection Agency: Envirofacts Data Warehouse; National Geophysical Data Center
• Forest Management - U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service: Forest Management Reports
• Hazardous Substances - Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry: HazDat Database
• Minerals - U.S. Geological Survey: State Minerals Statistics and Information
• Natural resources - FedStats: Natural Resources Listing
• Oceans - National Oceanographic Data Center: Ocean Data
• Soil - National Water and Climate Center: Soil Data
• Water Quality - U.S. Geological Survey: Water-Quality Information - Data

US: Gender

• Health - National Center for Health Statistics: Men's Health, Women's Health
• Labor Force - Bureau of Labor Statistics: Women in the Labor Force: A Databook
• Legal Profession - American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession: Statistics and Reports; American Bar Association: Women in Law
• Medical Profession - Women Physicians Congress: Statistics and History
• Telecommunications - International Telecommunication Union: Female Internet Users, Female Telecom Staff

US: Geospatial data

• Geospatial data - National Spatial Data Infrastructure: Geospatial One-Stop Portal; University of Virginia Library: Geospatial & Statistical Data Center

US: Government and Political Science

• Campaign Finance - Federal Election Commission: Campaign Finance Reports and Data
• Elections/Parties/Policy - CQ Press Political Reference Suite: Vital Statistics on American Politics (AU Community Only); CQ Voting and Elections Collection (AU Community Only)
• Federal Budget, Congressional Documents, Presidential Documents, etc. - GPO Access
• Government Employees, Retirement Systems - U.S. Census Bureau: State and Local Government Employee-Retirement Systems
• Immigration - U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Office of Immigration Statistics Materials; U.S. Census Bureau: Immigration
• Military - Pentagon Library: Military Installations; Department of Defense: Facts and Statistics
• Political action committees - Federal Election Commission: From FEC home page, go to News Releases or search for "Federal PAC Count"
• Opinion polls - The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
• Veterans - Department of Veterans Affairs: Program Statistics

US: Health and Vital Statistics

• Major Sources - National Center for Health Statistics; White House: Social Statistics Briefing Room: Health

• Alcohol use - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Alcohol Statistics; National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: Quick Facts; Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration: Alcohol Use, Binge Drinking, and Dependence
• American Indians - Indian Health Service
• Dental Health - National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research: Statistics and Data
• Disabilities - U.S. Census Bureau: Disability Data
• Drug Use - Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration: Drug Data Links
• Exposure to Radiation - Department of Energy: Radiation Exposure
• Infant mortality - National Center for Health Statistics: Fetal Deaths
• Marriage and Divorce - National Center for Health Statistics: Marriage and Divorce Statistics
• Men's Health - National Center for Health Statistics: Men's Health
• Mental Health - Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Statistics
• Morbidity and Mortality - National Center for Health Statistics: Mortality Data; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, National Safety Council: Odds of Death Due to Injury
• Obesity - Weight-control Information Network: Statistics Related to Overweight and Obesity
• Perinatal statistics - March of Dimes: PeriStats
• Safety - FedStats: Safety Topic Listing
• Smoking - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Tobacco Information and Prevention Source; Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration: Cigarettes, Cigars, and Other Tobacco; National Center for Health Statistics: Smoking
• Teen Pregnancy - National Center for Health Statistics: Teen Births
• Vital statistics - National Center for Health Statistics: National Vital Statistics System; U.S. Census Bureau: Statistical Abstracts (Vital Statistics is a chapter from 1921 forward; for years before 1921, vital statistics - if included - can be found using the index of the volume)
• Youth Smoking and Drug Use - Monitoring the Future
• Women's Health - National Center for Health Statistics: Women's Health

US: Industry and Agriculture

• Agriculture - U.S. Department of Agriculture: Census of Agriculture
• Industrial Classification - U.S. Department of Labor: Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Codes; U.S. Census Bureau: North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Codes, Correspondence between 1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC, Correspondence between 2002 NAICS and 1997 NAICS
• Production - Bureau of Labor Statistics: Producer Price Indexes; White House: Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Production

US: Local: Washington, DC/Maryland/Virginia

• DC - DC.gov: Crime and Activity Statistics, Emergency and Fire Statistics, Market Facts and Statistics, Student Performance Statistics; U.S. Census Bureau: District of Columbia QuickFacts
• MD - Maryland State Data Center; U.S. Census Bureau: Maryland QuickFacts; Office of Labor Market Analysis and Information: Maryland Career and Workforce Information; Maryland State Department of Education: Maryland Report Card; Maryland Higher Education Commission: Office of Policy Analysis and Research (scroll down for Data Book and Trend Book); Maryland State Board of Elections; Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene: Reports and Vital Statistics
• VA - Cooper Center: VASTAT; Virginia Center for Health Statistics; Virginia State Police: Crime Statistics; Virginia Department for the Aging: Statistics; Virginia Geographic Information Network; Virginia Department of Accounts: Commonwealth of Virginia Comprehensive Annual Financial Report; University of Virginia Library: Online Statistical Abstract of Virginia (from 1990 Census data); U.S. Census Bureau: Virginia QuickFacts; Virginia State Board of Elections: Statistics and Polling Places

US: Polling and Public Opinion

• Major Sources / Nationally-represented polls for politics, economics, social affairs - Harris Interactive: The Harris Poll; Pew Research Center; Polling the Nations (AU Community Only); Public Agenda; University of Michigan: Survey Research Center; Vital Statistics on American Politics (AU Community Only)
• Health and health-care polls- Kaiser Family Foundation - Kaiser Polls
• Media polls - ABC News Polling Unit; Associated Press/IPSOS Poll; CBS News Polls; Fox News Polls; L.A. Times Polls; New York Times Polls; NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School Polls; Time Magazine/SRBI Polls; Washington Post Polls
• Religion polls - American Religion Data Archive: Resources for Researchers

US: Telecommunications

• Internet, Broadband, Cellular Phone, Telephone - International Telecommunication Union: Statistics

US: Transportation

• Major Sources - Bureau of Transportation Statistics; Federal Transit Administration: National Transit Database; White House: Economic Statistics Briefing Room: Transportation

• Aviation Safety - National Transportation Safety Board: Aviation Accident Statistics; Boeing: Summary of worldwide commercial accidents
• Highway Safety - Federal Highway Administration: Highway Statistics
• Railroad Safety - Federal Railroad Administration: Railroad Accident Statistics
• Transportation Industry - U.S. Census Bureau: Transportation and Warehousing
• Waterborne Transportation - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Navigation Data Center; U.S. Department of Transportation: Martitime Administration: Data and Statistics

International

International: Major Sources

• CIA World Factbook - World Factbook
• Economic Intelligence Unit - EIU Country Reports (AU Community Only)
• European statistics - Europa: Eurostats
• U.S. Census Bureau - National Statistics Offices, International Data Base
• Nanyang Technological University Library - Statistical Data Locators
• NationMaster - Nationmaster.com
• Population Reference Bureau - DataFinder, Country Profiles
• OECD - SourceOECD (AU Community Only)
• Social Sciences Data Sets - University of California, San Diego: Social Science Data on the Internet (Data Sets); Council of European Social Sciences Data Archives; Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (You must be in the Library or the CTE Social Sciences Research Laboratory to download data for this resource.)
• United Nations - Common Database, Statistics Division, Country at a Glance, UNESCO Institute for Statistics: Public Reports
• World Bank - World Development Indicators (AU Community Only)

International: Criminal Justice

• Crime - U.S. Department of Justice: World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems; United Nations: Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems

International: Demographics, Population and Housing

• Population and Demographics - U.S. Census: World POPClock Projection, International Data Base; CIA: World Factbook; United Nations Statistics Division: Demographic and Social Statistics; Population Reference Bureau: DataFinder, Country Profiles; Geohive.com
• Religion - CIA World Factbook: Religions by Country; Census of India: Data on Religion

International: Economics

• Major Sources - CIA: World Factbook; Economic Intelligence Unit: EIU Country Reports (AU Community Only); World Bank: Global Development Finance Online (AU Community Only); International Monetary Fund: International Financial Statistics (AU Community Only)

• Asia - Asian Development Bank: Database and Development Indicators
• Company Information - EDGAR (records of publically-traded companies that have been electronically filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission since 1994 - includes files on international companies that trade on U.S. exchanges); MERGENT Online (AU Community Only)
• Country Profiles - MERGENT Online (AU Community Only)
• Currency Exchange Rates - Yahoo: Currency Converter
• Data Sets - National Bureau of Economic Research: Data (Data sets)
• Debt, External - Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-WB: Statistics on External Debt
• Economic Accounts - Bureau of Economic Analysis: International Economic Accounts
• Employment, Unemployment, Compensation, Unions - U.S. Department of Labor: Foreign Labor Statistics; International Labour Office: LABORSTA
• Finance - Yahoo: Yahoo! Finance - Worldwide
• Market Research, Industry - U.S. Commercial Service: Market Research Library
• National Income Accounts (Converted to International Prices for 188 Countries) - University of Pennsylvania: Penn World Table
• Stock Markets - Yahoo: Major World Indices
• Trade Data - World Trade Organization: Trade Statistics; United Nations: Commodity Trade Statistics Database (Comtrade) ; U.S. Census Bureau: Foreign trade statistics; U.S. Agency for International Development: Trade Capacity Building Database; Industry Canada: Trade Data Online

International: Education

• Comparisons - National Center for Education Statistics: International Comparisons in Education; Childstats.gov: International Comparisons: Education; OECD: Education and Training, UNESCO Institute for Statistics: Public Reports
• Illiteracy/Literacy - United Nations: Indicators on illiteracy, UNESCO Institute for Statistics: Public Reports
• Physics education - American Institute of Physics: Education and Employment Data

International: Environment and Energy

• Earthquakes - U.S. Geological Survey: World Earthquake Information by Country/Region
• Emissions - Energy Information Administration: Energy-Related Emissions Data & Environmental Analyses (Scroll down for international emissions data.)
• Energy - United Nations Statistics Division: Energy Statistics; Energy Information Administration: International
• Environment - World Resources Institute: EarthTrends
• Minerals - U.S. Geological Survey: International Minerals Statistics and Information

International: Gender

• Gender Statistics - World Bank: Genderstats
• Women - United Nations: The World's Women 2005: Progress in Statistics

International: Geospatial Data

• GIS Data - Columbia University: Center for International Earth Science Information Network

International: Government and Political Science

• Parliaments - Inter-Parliamentary Union: Parline database
• Migration Rate - CIA: World Factbook; Mexican Migration Project
• Military Expenditures, Security Trends, Arms Transfers - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: Databases
• Immigration, Canada - Immigration Overview
• Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions - Center for International Development and Conflict Management: Polity IV
• Refugees, Asylum-Seekers - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees: Statistics

International: Health and Vital Statistics

• Health - World Health Organization: Statistical Information System; CIA: World Factbook
• HIV/AIDS - U.S. Census Bureau: HIV/AIDS Country Profiles

International: Industry and Agriculture

• Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry, Nutrition, Land Resources - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Statistics
• Automotive Industry - Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles (OICA)
• Market Research, Industry - U.S. Commercial Service: Market Research Library

International: Polling and Public Opinion

• International - Pew Research Center: Pew Global Attitudes Project; Polling the Nations (AU Community Only); World Values Survey
• Africa - Afrobarometer
• Asia - Asiabarometer; Mansfield Asian Opinion Poll Database
• Canada - Canadian Opinion Research Archive
• Europe - Eurobarometer/European Public Opinion Analysis
• Latin America - Latinobarometro; Vanderbilt University: Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP)
• Russia - FOM: Public Opinion Foundation
• United Kingdom - Economic & Social Research Council: Question Bank; UK Data Archive: Major Studies

International: Telecommunications/Communications

• Culture and Communications - UNESCO Institute for Statistics: Public Reports
• Internet, Broadband, Cellular Phone, Telephone - International Telecommunication Union: Statistics

International: Transportation