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Reference Guide to Data Sources

The Reference Guide to Data Sources by Julia Bauder
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 0838912273
Publication Date: 2014-06-01
"This concise sourcebook takes the guesswork out of locating the best sources of data, a process more important than ever as the data landscape grows increasingly cluttered."

Policy Map This link opens in a new window
An online, U.S. national data and mapping tool and analytics platform that leverages thousands of U.S. data indicators in to perform demographic and socioeconomic analysis, from a neighborhood census block group in many cases, up to a national level, as well as create custom regions, for their research and studies.
How to use Policy Map
Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (Online Edition) This link opens in a new window
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Data tables from the U.S. Census, updated monthly, including statistics at the city, state, country, and even international levels.

Google Dataset Search
A search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.

Explore Census Data
Demographic data about the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Island areas.
*This replaces the previous "Fact Finder" website information.
Data.gov
"The home of the U.S. Government’s open data"
FedStats
Handy finding aid for over 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government linked by topic.
National Longitudinal Surveys
The NLS covers a wide variety of topics and has interviewed cohorts of people dating back as far as the 1960s.
NTIS
The National Technical Information Service serves as the largest central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. For more than 60 years NTIS has assured businesses, universities, and the public timely access to approximately 3 million publications covering over 350 subject areas.
UNdata
Comprehensive database which includes most major statistical resources of international statistics from the United Nations.