Reference Guide to Data Sources
The Reference Guide to Data Sources by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 0838912273Publication 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."
Library Databases with statistical information
- Policy Map This link opens in a new windowAn 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
- Google Dataset SearchA search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.
Start Here--Data Sources
- Explore Census DataDemographic 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"
- FedStatsHandy finding aid for over 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government linked by topic.
- National Longitudinal SurveysThe NLS covers a wide variety of topics and has interviewed cohorts of people dating back as far as the 1960s.
- NTISThe 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.
- UNdataComprehensive database which includes most major statistical resources of international statistics from the United Nations.
