Online Facts: Statistical Resources
- Sourcebook
of Criminal Justice Statistics is a collaborative
effort between the New York State University at Albany and the
Bureau of Justice Statistics. This searchable online version
offers over 10,000 tables of continuously updated statistics
on all aspects criminal justice from over 2500 sources.
- Uniform
Crime Reports The FBI's statistics
on crime by county, compiled into a form-based database by the
University of Virginia's Geospatial & Statistical
Data Center. Divided into four major categories; All Arrests,
Adult Arrests, Juvenile Arrests, and Crimes Reported. A further
subdivision is made into two time periods; 1990 through 1993,
and 1994-2002. The user is then allowed to choose from amongst
forty categories of crime and then select the county or counties
of interest within a particular state.
- Census
of Agriculture, A Census
Bureau database, providing detailed statistics on agricultural
production. Searchable by state, county, Zipcode, or the United
States as a whole. 39 tables are given at each geographic
level,
detailing crop production, land use, land tenure and agricultural
labor force characteristics.
- Domestic
Data Investigator. The University of Virginia Library's
Social Science Data Center site provides detailed regional economic
information at the state and county level, based upon information
collected by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of economic
Analysis (BEA). Two major interfaces are provided:
- County
Business Patterns covers business statistics by region
from the mid 1970's to the late 1990's (coverage varies
depending upon the state).
-
Regional Economic Accounts provides
more detailed economic portraits and projections by region,
with detailed breakdowns under such categories as; personal
income, earnings by industry, employment, transfer payments
as well as farm income and expenses. Coverage ranges from
the late 1960's to the late 1990's.
- Economagic,
an excellent compilation of economic statistics from governmental
sources arranged in a simplified readable form. Economagic has
compiled much of this data in--hard to find--historical series.
Economagic's Most
Requested Series includes Index of Leading
Economic Indicators; Real Gross Domestic Product in Chained
1992 Dollars; S&P 500 Total Return; Gross National Product
in Current Dollars; GDP Implicit Price Deflator; Real Personal
Consumption Expenditures in Chained 1992 Dollars; Personal Income
in Current Dollars; Consumer Price Index; Unemployment Rate;
Total Industrial Production Index; M1 Money Stock, SA; M2 Money
Stock, SA; M3 Money Stock SA; Exchange Rates; Federal Funds
Rate, Discount Rate; 30-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate;
Bank Prime Loan Rate; 30 Year Conventional Mortgages, Federal
Home Loan Mortgage Corporation; 3-Month Treasury Bill Rate,
Secondary Market; 6-Month Treasury Bill Rate, Secondary Market.
- Economic
Census from the Census Bureau, offers extensive
data--as well as narrative summaries--for most sectors of the
United States economy in 2002.
- Foreign
Trade Data: Census Bureau
trade data, includes historical series back to 1960.
- Penn
World Tables is an international economic statistics
series providing historical data back to 1950. The database
can produce customized results based upon country, date and
approximately 30 statistical subjects.
- Encyclopedia
of Education Statistics This National Center for
Education Statistics (NCES) interface searches the Digest of
Education Statistics (1997-1999), The condition of Education
(1997-1999), Projections of Education Statistics (to 2007 and
to 2008), Youth Indicators (1996). Databases can be searched
individually or collectively. The Digest is the best single
source for education statistics available.
- Campus
Security Statistics are available from the Office
of Post Secondary Education (OPE) at the US Department of Education.
This site reports a wide variety of annual crime statistics
for over 6000 institutions of higher learning in the United
States. Detailed breakdowns are given under the broad categories
of Arrests, Criminal Offense, and Hate Offenses both on campus
and also for the adjacent geographic area.
See Also:
- Crime
on College Campus is a site created by the
Chronicle of Higher Education providing fewer statistical
details than the OPE site, but including useful summary
articles pointing to trends in campus crime.
- International Energy Annual.
An online version of the statistical annual produced by the
Energy Information Agency (EIA) of the US Department of energy
(DOE). Detailed statistics are available here on the consumption
and production of petroleum, electricity, natural gas, coal;
on CO2 emissions; energy reserves, prices etc.
- CDC Wonder,
produced by The Center For Disease Control, is a comprehensive
database of mortality statistics, searchable by State, and International
Disease Classification (ICD) number. The Java version of this
site allows the user to select these codes from an internal
database, and import them into the search screen. Additional
limits are provided, to allow the user to search by gender,
race and age group.
- National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
A division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
NCHS is the federal government's principal agency for vital
statistics and health statistics. NCHS publishes a pre-formatted
data set giving statistical estimates over varying year ranges.
Some of this data extends back to discrete collection periods
for 1960-62, 1971-74, 1976-80, and 1988-91. Other data is restricted
to more recent years. Data includes topics such as serum cholesterol
levels; tobacco use; selected chronic conditions; hypertension;
pelvic inflammatory disease; breast feeding; infant mortality;
low birth weight; pre-natal care; infertility; sex education;
sexual activity; use of contraceptives; births; deaths; life
expectancy; etc.
- American
Factfinder is the Census Bureau's gateway to its very extensive
collection of statistical reports derived from the 2000 decennial
census.
- Census
Summary Files (2000). This
comprehensive site allows the user to easily build
a customized table out of over 200 statistical
categories. Geographic sub-categories are available at
the national, state, metropolitan, county and
census tract level.(Mugar Memorial Library maintains large
scale Census Tract Maps for Massachusetts). Go to American
Fact Finder page and click on "Data Sets."
- Census
Bureau Reference Maps 1990-2000. This online source
can be used to establish the exact configuration of the geographical
subdivisions used in the Census Lookup, including; county, place,
and census tract boundaries for both the 1990 and 2000 decennial
census's.
- Census
Bureau Thematic Maps. Based on 1990 decennial census
information, this site allows you to make customized maps at
the national, state, county and metropolitan area levels for
approximately fifty categories of information.
- Census
Subjects A to Z. An excellent
subject index to US Census Bureau statistical reports on selected
topics.
- County
and City Data Books. The University
of Virginia Library's Social Science Data Center provides access
to the 1988 and 1994 County and City Data Books which
contain detailed census data for US counties and cities.
- GenderStats.
A compilation of basic statistics on gender difference.
The database is organized by country for the following general
categories: Basic Demographic Data; Education; Health; Labor
Force Structure; Population Dynamics; Summary Gender Profile.
- United
States Historical Census Browser.
Historical data from the US Census on the population and economy
by state and county from 1790 to 1960. Based on data compiled
by the Inter-University Consortium for political and Social
Research. Data before 1830 focuses on population only, while
later entries include economic census data.
- Adherents.com
" is a growing collection of over 56,000 adherent statistics
and religious geography citations -- references to published
membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for
over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies,
faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns,
etc."
- FAOSTAT
Database Collections offer detailed statistics
on world food and agricultural production. A customized tabular
format allows the user to organize data by variables such as
commodity, country, imports, exports, land use, irrigation,
pesticide use, etc.. The database is so well set up, it allows
for example: the user to track a particular commodity (such
as a species of fish) and determine the export of that commodity
from one country to another.
- UNICEF
Statistical Data. UNICEF compiles
comparative international statistics on birth and death rates,
fertility and infant mortality, health and sanitation, and education
and literacy.
- FedStats.
Maintained by the Federal Interagency Council on Statistical
Policy, FedStats provides access to statistical information
produced by more than seventy federal agencies.
- Statistical
Resources on the Web is the University of Michigan
Documents Center's comprehensive gateway to US government and
international statistics. Topics include; Business and Industry,
Demographics, Economics, Education, Finance, Foreign Trade,
Housing, Labor, Military, Politics, Science, Transportation,
and many more.
- Statistical
Universe is an online version of three indexes:
American Statistics Index, covering 1973 to the present; Index
to International Statistics, covering 1983 to the present; and
Statistical Reference Index, covering 1980 to the present. The
database indexes and abstracts social, demographic, and economic
statistics published by the U.S. government, the U.N. and other
international governmental organizations, U.S. state governments,
and U.S. private non-profit and commercial associations and
organizations. Most of these publications are available on microfiche
in Mugar Library. The PowerTables section of Statistical Universe,
containing complete statistical tables, may be searched separately.
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