LibGuides: Subject Guides for Websites: Facts & Statistics

FACTS & STATISTICS Subject Guide

AcademicInfo
• http://www.academicinfo.net/
• Michael Madin, founder, 1998
• .net

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An online education resource center with extensive subject guides and distance learning information:
• Statistics and Probability
• Statistics General Links
• Statistics Education
• Government Statistics Resources
American Community Survey – Education Tabulation (ACS-ED)
• https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Demographic/ACS
• Education Demographic and Geographic Estimates
• ,gov

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The American Community Survey – Education Tabulation (ACS-ED) is an annual, nationwide survey designed to provide communities with reliable and timely demographic, social, economic, and housing data. The U.S. Census Bureau implemented the ACS in 2005 as a replacement for the decennial census long form, and NCES collaborates with the U.S. Census Bureau to create a variety of custom ACS data files that describe the condition of school-age children in the U.S., states, and school districts. The custom NCES files are updated annually and based on ACS five-year period estimates.
American Statistical Association
• http://www.amstat.org/
• .org

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A membership organization, the ASA sponsors meetings, educational programs, & workshops; publishes scholarly journals, statistical research guides, general interest magazines, and books of interest to statisticians; promotes career development; and promotes the inclusion of statistics in policy-making.
Background Notes
• http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
• U.S. Department of State
• .gov

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Provides facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of They are updated/revised as they are received from the Department's regional bureaus.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
• http://www.bls.gov/
• .gov
• Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor

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Provides employment statistics and consumer and producer price indexes. Includes at-a-glance tables and tools to map, calculate, and display your data.
ChildStats.gov: Forum on Child and Family Statistics
• https://www.childstats.gov/
• Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
• .gov

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The Forum's annual report, America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, provides a summary of national indicators of child well-being in the areas of family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education and health. It also monitors changes in these indicators over time.
City-data.com
• http://www.city-data.com/
• Advameg, Inc., Lech Mazur, President
• .com

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Provides a comprehensive data for cities large and small. Includes demographic and census data, maps, photos, stats about residents (race, income, ancestries, education, employment, etc.), geographical data, state profiles, crime data, communication resources, more.
City Population
• http://www.citypopulation.de/
• Thomas Brinkhoff, copyright holder
• .de (Germany)

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Provides statistics for the major cities and agglomerations as well as for administrative divisions of each country. The statistics are illustrated by interactive maps and diagrams.
DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals
Provides a comprehensive, subject-organized list of open access journals that are peer reviewed. Defines “open access journal” as any which does not charge readers or institutions for access.
Economic Indicators
• http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/browse/collection.action?collectionCode=ECONI
• U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)
• .gov

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Available from April 1995 to the present, this monthly publication provides economic information on gross domestic product, income, employment, production, business activity, prices, money, credit, security markets, Federal finance, and international statistics.
Health, United States
• http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm
• National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• .gov

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An annual report that presents national health trends on birth and death rates, infant mortality, life expectancy, morbidity and health status, risk factors, use of ambulatory and inpatient care, health personnel and facilities, financing of health care, health insurance and managed care, etc.
National Center for Education Statistics: Publications & Products
• https://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/
• IES -- Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics
• .gov

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Online versions of the Digest of Education Statistics (1991 – 2012) and the Condition of Education (1980 – 2013) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Also includes a report on Historically Black Colleges and Universities and other topics, such as as Indicators of School Crime and Safety, Trends in Educational Equity of Girls & Women, and so forth.
National Center for Health Statistics - NCHS
• http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• .gov

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Provides access to data and statistical information via an alphabetical index, by topic through “FastStats—Statistics by Topic,” and other features, such as QuickStat of the Week and Data Access. Source citations are included.
National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)
• https://nsduhweb.rti.org/respweb/homepage.cfm
• Website jointly sponsored by the private research firm conducting the survey (RTI International) and the government agency sponsor, The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) which is an agency in the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
• .org

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The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) provides up-to-date information on tobacco, alcohol, and drug use, mental health and other health-related issues in the United States.
Nation’s Report Card
• https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/
• U.S. Department of Education
• .gov

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Provides free access to the findings of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) for elementary and secondary students in reading, mathematics, science, writing, U.S. history, civics, geography, and other subjects from 1969 to the present.
School Locations & Geoassignments
• https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/Geographic/SchoolLocations
• National Center for Education Statistics, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education
• .gov

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NCES relies on information about school location to help construct school-based surveys, support program administration, identify associations with other types of geographic entities, and to help investigate the social and spatial context of education. EDGE creates and assigns address geocodes (estimated latitude/latitude values) and other geographic indicators to public schools, public local education agencies, private schools, and postsecondary schools. The geographic data are provided as shapefiles, and basic attribute data are available as Excel and SAS tables.
Statistical Assessment Service - STATS
• https://senseaboutscienceusa.org/stats/
• STATS, a non-profit organization
• .org

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STATS is our collaborative project with the American Statistical Association to improve statistical literacy among journalists, academic journal editors, and researchers.
Statistics Canada
• http://www.statcan.gc.ca/start-debut-eng.html
• Statistics Canada, Canada’s central statistical office
• .ca (Canada)

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Provides statistics about all aspects of Canadian life, including population, agriculture, construction, education, health, justice, labor, trade, transportation and more. Information is obtained from a census conducted every 5 years, and about 350 active surveys.
Statistics of U.S. Businesses - SUSB
• https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/susb.html
• US Census Bureau, US Dept of Commerce
• .gov

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SUSB is an annual series that provides national and subnational data on the distribution of economic data by enterprise size and industry.
U.S. International Trade Statistics
• https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/index.html
• U.S. Census Bureau
• .gov

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Provides U.S. trade statistics by country and by product (SITC codes). Data is available by month and cumulatively by year since 1996. Definitions of terms are available at linked websites.
U.S. Vital Records Offices Online
• https://naphsis-web.sharepoint.com/Pages/USVitalRecordsOfficesOnline.aspx
• National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS)
• .org

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Provides links alphabetically by state to the Websites of all U.S. vital records jurisdictions which have an online presence.
UNdata: A World of Information
• http://data.un.org/
• United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD)
• .org

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Provides statistics and country profiles through access to 33 databases and 60 million records. Topics covered include: agriculture, crime, education, employment, energy, environment, health, HIV/AIDS, human development, industry, information and communication technology, national accounts, population, refugees, tourism, and trade.
Uniform Crime Reports
• https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr
• FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation
• .gov

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Provides access to online versions of annual and special reports, monographs, etc. on crime statistics from mid-nineties to present.
United States Census Bureau Data
* https://data.census.gov/cedsci/
* U.S. Census Bureau
* .gov

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Provides online access to a wide variety of population, economic, geographic, and housing statistical information about the United States.
World Bank Data
• http://data.worldbank.org/
• The World Bank
• .org

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Provides free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe. Search by country, topic, or indicators. Also provides tools to create your own queries, generate tables, charts and maps and easily save, embed and share them.
The World Factbook
• https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
• Central Intelligence Agency
• .gov

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Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Includes: maps of the major world regions, flags of the world, a physical world map, a political map of the world, and time zones.
World Health Statistics
• http://www.who.int/gho/publications/world_health_statistics/en/index.html
• World Health Organization - WHO
• int

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Provides an annual World Health Statistics report that presents the most recent health statistics for WHO's 194 Member States.

Last update: 8/11/2021

Google Scholar

Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a variation of Google. It is designed specifically for scholarly literature searches.

Advantages

It’s free to use.
It has a simple, familiar interface that works much like regular Google.
It finds scholarly books, articles, and conference papers from a wide range of disciplines.

Disadvantages

Coverage is not comprehensive. It is a good first place to start researching a paper, but not comprehensive enough to be the only place you look.
Criteria used for selecting “scholarly” materials is not given. Search results can be a mixture of articles and books as well as unpublished manuscripts, course syllabi, and high school term papers, so you must critically evaluate what you find.
Results are not always full-text or free like regular Google. Often the link for an article will take you to the publishers website where the full article is available only if you buy it.