Quick Guides

How do I find statistical information?

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1. Top 10 Statistical Sources
2. Statistics by Subject Area:
   1. Health & Medical
   2. Technology
   3. Education
   4. Finance & Economy
   5. History
   6. Public Opinion & Trends
   7. Politics & Government
   8. Sports, Entertainment & Arts
   9. Legal & Crime
   10. International Statistics

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Top 10 Statistical Sources

These are the top 10 sources for finding online statistics. 

Call numbers in brackets refer to print versions available in the Library.

1. Statistical Abstract of the United States  
   [Ref HA202.A1, Latest copy at the Reference Desk]
2. FactSearch available on FirstSearch (Password required)
   Search here for facts and statistics from newspapers, periodicals, the Congressional Record and congressional hearings
3. The World Almanac and Book of Facts [In JBU Library: Ref AY67.N5 W7]
4. United States Census of the Bureau
5. The World Factbook
6. FEDSTATS 
7. Top 3 Business magazines - Fortune, Forbes, Business Week, available on ProQuest Direct
8. National & regional newspapers available on Business Dateline and DataTimes on  FirstSearch (Password required)
9. American Demographics available on ProQuest Direct
10. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Health & Medical Statistics

1. Health and healthcare in the United States: County and Metro Area Data [Ref HA214.H43 1999]
2. America's Children / Federal Interagency Forum on Child & Family Statistics
   Annual report on indicators of economic security, health and education.
3. American Cancer Society
4. Ministries of Health and National Surveillance Institutes around the world
5. Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS
6. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report / Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
7. National Center for Health Statistics
8. National Computerized Archive of Aging
9. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
10. Basic Country Health Profiles for the Americas / Pan American Health Organization
11. Health Statistics / White House
12. Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results / National Cancer Institute

Technology Statistics

1. American Petroleum Institute
2. Energy Information Administration
3. Federal Communications Commission
4. Office of Telecommunications Technologies
5. Nua Internet Surveys - internet demographics and use by industry sector and regional area etc.
6. CyberAtlas Stats Toolbox

Education Statistics

1. Education Statistics of the United States [In JBU Library: Ref LB2846.E38 1999]
2. The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators: American Society at the End of the 20th Century [In JBU Library: Ref HN60 .B46 1999]
3. ALA (American Library Association) Library Fact Sheets
4. The Researching Librarian: Statistics and Statistical Methods
5. National Center for Education Statistics
6. Education Week on the Web
7. National Science Foundation

Finance & Economy 

Trade & Country Statistics

1. Foreign Trade of the United States: including State and Metro Area Export Data [In JBU Library: Ref HF3000 .F67 2001]
2. Market Research / U.S. Department of Commerce
3. International Trade Administration

Labor Statistics

1. Occupational Outlook Handbook / U.S. Department of Labor
2. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Investing & Securities

1. American Stock Exchange
2. Moody's Investors Service
3. Standard & Poor's Ratings Actions
4. Dow Jones Averages - 1895 to date - downloadable in excel format

Economic Indicators

1. American Cost of Living Survey [Ref HB235.U6 A53 2002]
2. The Beige Book / Federal Reserve Board
3. Survey of Current Business / Bureau of Economic Analysis

Company Financials

1. Hoover's Online
2. Internet Nonprofit Center
3. EDGAR Database of Corporate Information
4. Worldscope and Disclosure on FirstSearch (Password required)

Statistics on Industries

1. BusIndustry on FirstSearch (Password required)
2. Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys

Historical Statistics

1. Historical Statistics of the United States, colonial times to 1970 [Ref HA202 .H57 1989]
2. Historical Labor Statistics Project / Institute of Business and Research, University of California, Berkeley
3. History Net
4. Integrated Public Use Microdata Series - USA - National census database spanning 1850 to  1990 / University of Minnesota
5. Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
6. Penn World Tables
7. United States Historical Census Browser - "The data presented here describe the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from 1790 to 1960."

Statistics on Public Opinion & Trends

1. American Attitudes: Who Thinks What about the Issues that Shape Our Lives / Susan Mitchell [Ref HN90.P8 M58 1998, Copy at the Reference Desk]
2. Statistical Handbook of the American Family [In JBU Library: Ref HQ536.S727 1999]
3. Gallup Organization
4. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
5. Institute for Research in Social Science / University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
6. National Election Studies / University of Michigan
7. General Social Survey Codebook / Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
8. Survey Research Center - directory of polling and survey organizations
9. Public Opinion Analysis / European Commission

Politics & Government Statistics

1. Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections [In JBU Library: Ref JK1967 .C662 2001]
2. Congressional Observer Publications
3. Center for Defense Information
4. Federal Election Commission
5. Office of the Assistance Secretary for Planning and Evaluation / Department of Health and Human Services
6. United States Navy

Statistics on Sports, Entertainment & Arts

1. American Booksellers Association
2. Charts All Over the World - Music, radio, billboard charts
3. ESPN
4. Newspaper Association of America
5. Internet Movie Database
6. Sports Network

Legal & Crime Statistics

1. Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 
2. Fact Books - on the relationship between women, the elderly,  children and the law / American Bar Association
3. Federal Bureau of Investigation
4. Federal Judiciary Library
5. Organized Crime / Regina Schekall
6. State and Local Government on the Net

International Statistics

1. Asian Development Bank
2. Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web / Bureau of Labor Statistics
3. Central Intelligence Agency Publications & Reports
4. Europa
5. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carribean
6. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
7. Governments on the World Wide Web
8. Inter-American Development Bank
9. International Monetary Fund
10. International Labour Organization
11. International Telecommunication Union
12. International Data Base - a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world / U.S. Census Bureau
13. Country Studies: Area Handbook Series / Library of Congress
14. Statistics of the Commonwealth of Independent States
15. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
16. ReliefWeb / United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
17. United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics
18. United Nations Statistics Division
19. World Bank Organization
20. World Food Programme
21. World Trade Organization
22. World Health Organization Statistical Information System