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Statistics Subject Guide: By Subject

Strategies General Resources By Geographic Coverage By Subject

 

Historical Statistics
Health Statistics
Business/Economic Statistics
Crime Statistics
Social Sciences data


Historical Statistics

To find books using the Library Catalog search the keywords

historical and statistics and [topic] and [location]

U.S. Historical Census Browser

U.S. Historical Income Data

U.S. Census of Population and Housing back to 1790

U.S. Historical Statistics on Banking 1934 to present

Asian Historical Statistics Project (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)

 

Health Statistics

Pennsylvania Bureau of Health Statistics & Research

(U.S.) National Center for Health Statistics

Centers for Disease Control WONDER

World Health Organization Statistical Information System

PubMed
Add the word "statistics" to your topic search (e.g., asthma AND statistics ) to find journal articles which include statistics.

 

Business/Economic Statistics

Business and Industry: ( U.S. ) Census Bureau Economic Programs

Statistical Resources on the Web: Comprehensive Economics (University of Michigan)

STAT-USA (U.S. Department of Commerce)

Marketline (international business and industry information)

 

Crime Statistics

( U.S. ) Bureau of Justice Statistics

Crime Statistics by Country

International Justice Statistics

 

Social Sciences Data

American Community Survey
Provides annual data covering a wide range of social, economic and housing characteristics for the population by a multitude of demographic variables. The data are available for more than 7,000 areas, including all congressional districts as well as counties, cities, metro areas and American Indian and Alaska Native areas of 65,000 population or more.

ICPSR (Intercollegiate Center for Political and Social Research)
Archive of social science data files for use with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata.

Data Repositories and Sources
Links to online data for social science research from the UCLA Department of Sociology.

 

 

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