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Homepage of the United States Census Bureau. The Census Bureau website provides data about the American public, such as population size, race, gender, ethnicity, ancestry, housing, commute time, family size, and educational attainment.

An interactive platform to access data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Identify the NAICS code for the industry you are researching, and build it into your searches in Business databases to make your searching more precise.

As part of the Department of Labor, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is responsible for tracking the U.S. labor market, as well as working conditions and price changes.

The starting point for anyone seeking information on starting a small business -- or for students researching small businesses in the U.S.

Longitudinal source data that allows tracking a business or industry over time.

The U.S. Census Bureau's Economic Census provides data for U.S. national and local economies every five years.

Search by geographic locale for subnational economic data by industry.

The USDOJ website contains publications and reports on a variety of topics related to United States crime and justice.

Established in 1972, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.

Homepage of the United States Census Bureau. The Census Bureau website provides data about the American public, such as population size, race, gender, ethnicity, ancestry, housing, commute time, family size, and educational attainment.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is the nation's primary source of information on criminal victimization. Each year, data are obtained from a nationally representative sample of about 90,000 households, comprising nearly 160,000 persons, on the frequency, characteristics, and consequences of criminal victimization in the United States. The NCVS collects information on nonfatal personal crimes (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated and simple assault, and personal larceny) and household property crimes (burglary, motor vehicle theft, and other theft) both reported and not reported to police. Survey respondents provide information about themselves (e.g., age, sex, race and Hispanic origin, marital status, education level, and income) and whether they experienced a victimization. For each victimization incident, the NCVS collects information about the offender (e.g., age, race and Hispanic origin, sex, and victim-offender relationship), characteristics of the crime (including time and place of occurrence, use of weapons, nature of injury, and economic consequences), whether the crime was reported to police, reasons the crime was or was not reported, and victim experiences with the criminal justice system.

Provides statistics on inmates, prison populations, and prison staff.

This unique compilation of data provides a visual representation of key statistics for each state as well as a comparison of each state in relation to other states.

The OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book (SBB) enables users to access online information via OJJDP's Web site to learn more about juvenile crime and victimization and about youth involved in the juvenile justice system. Developed for OJJDP by the National Center for Juvenile Justice, SBB provides timely and reliable statistical answers to the most frequently asked questions from policymakers, the media, and the general public. In addition, the data analysis and dissemination tools available through SBB give users quick and easy access to detailed statistics on a variety of juvenile justice topics.

Law enforcement agencies collect detailed incident level data regarding individual offenses and arrests and submit them using prescribed data elements and data values. NIBRS presents quantitative and qualitative data that describes each incident and arrest. The NIBRS Map provides the status of NIBRS reporting by state.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) collects criminal history data from the FBI and state record repositories to study recidivism patterns of various offenders, including persons on probation or discharged from prison. Data collections and surveys include the Federal Justice Statistics Program, Recidivism Survey of Felons on Probation, and Recidivism of State Prisoners.

The Census of Jails is a series of data collections that study the nation's local jails. To reduce respondent burden for the 2013 collection, the Census of Jails was combined with the Deaths in Custody Reporting Program (DCRP). The census provides the sampling frame for the nationwide Survey of Inmates in Local Jails (SILJ) and the Annual Survey of Jails (ASJ).

Produces annual national- and state-level data on the number of prisoners in state and federal prison facilities. Aggregate data are collected on race and sex of prison inmates, inmates held in private facilities and local jails, system capacity, noncitizens, and persons under age 18.

Collects data from a nationally representative sample of local jails on jail inmate populations, jail capacity, and related information. The collection began in 1982 and has been conducted annually, except for years 1983, 1988, 1993, 1999, and 2005, during which a complete census of U.S. local jails was conducted.

The World Prison Brief (WPB) is a unique database that provides free access to information about prison systems throughout the world. Country information is updated on a monthly basis, using data largely derived from governmental or other official sources. Provides data on prison populations, historic trends, country rankings, government agencies responsible for prisons, among other data.

UNODC regularly provides global statistical series on crime, criminal justice, drug trafficking and prices, drug production, and drug use. Data produced by UNODC have multiple sources. Member States regularly submit to UNODC statistics on drugs and crime and criminal justice. Other data are collected through national surveys implemented by UNODC in cooperation with national governments or are compiled from scientific literature. UNODC also applies scientific methods to maximize the comparability of the data and estimate regional and global statistics.

Provides information about college affordability, diversity, and success using data from the Dept. of Education and Peterson's Common Data Set.

Covers a variety of statistics for K-12 schools, libraries, and higher education.

Find statistics for institutions of higher education.

Yearly compilation of education statistics from pre-kindergarten through graduate school. Much of the data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics.

Home page for the U. S. Department of Education.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress provides information about students' knowledge and abilities in specific subject areas.

Congressionally mandated yearly report on the state of education.

This survey covers learning from childhood through adulthood.

Follows three cohorts of children through their education. The study provides data from birth through eighth grade.

Collection of financial and non-financial data from public schools in the United States.

Contains financial data for public elementary and secondary schools.

The Statistical Abstract is a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations.

This report looks at the four groups of health determinants that can be affected: behavior, community and environment, public and health policies, and clinical care.

BRFSS is the world’s largest, on-going telephone health survey system, tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States yearly since 1984.

WONDER online databases utilize a rich ad-hoc query system for the analysis of public health data. Reports and other query systems are also available.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention clearinghouse for data and statistics by topic.

Healthy People provides science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans.

WHO’s Communicable Disease Global Atlas is bringing together for analysis and comparison standardized data and statistics for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels.

The Global Health Observatory (GHO) is WHO's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation.

Resources compiled by Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce is a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health sciences libraries.

HCUP (pronounced "H-CUP") family of health care databases and related software tools and products is made possible by a Federal-State-Industry partnership sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

This site, sponsored by the US Department of Health and Human Services, seeks to make health data more accessible.

National Healthcare Quality Report and National Healthcare Disparities Report

The NCHS is the principal resource for health statistics.

This is a table that lists NIH-supported data repositories that accept submissions of appropriate data from NIH-funded investigators (and others). Also included are resources that aggregate information about biomedical data and information sharing systems.

A data warehouse that collects, stores and displays information on chronic diseases and their risk factors for all WHO member states.

WHO is an agency of the United Nations and coordinates international health initiatives and research.

Information about aging issues around the world by the American Association of Retired Persons. AgeStats Worldwide provides comparative statistical data and includes projections to 2050. AgeSource offers international resources that include clearinghouses, libraries, databases, major reports, web metasites, and more.

Produced by the Federal Inter-agency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics. Gateway to statistics on aging, Medicare, housing, Social Security, veterans’ affairs, census, etc.

Helpful information about who produces what data including demographics, economics, health care, physical environment, education, behavior and health of children in the US.

Focused on California communities, from the Lucile Packard Foundation -- great compilation of health and other well-being indicators. Unique data on homelessness.

Collaboration of California Department of Social Services and UC Berkeley. Presents detailed, dynamically-generated statistics on child welfare cases, outcomes, services, and more.

Produced by Annie E. Casey Foundation. Data Center allows dynamically-generated statistics by state and some smaller geographies such as city and congressional district. Includes publications and other resources.

From the US Dept. of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. Statistics cover adoption and foster care; child abuse; child welfare; community services block grants; Head Start; TANF and welfare reform; refugee resettlement, and more. Also includes resources on policy, legislation, research, and publications addressing child and family welfare issues.

Mental health data from the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health. Covers types of disorders, populations, use of mental health services and treatment, cost, and more.

Program statistics and data files on programs covered by the Social Security Administation (Disability, SSI, OASI, Medicare, etc.). Includes statistics on socioeconomic characteristics, demographics, geographic information, and more for workers covered under Social Security and Medicare.Public Health

Annual report from the Centers for Disease Control on national health trends. Includes data on demographic populations, disability, child and adolescent health, education, health expenditures, older populations, poverty, preventive care, and more.

Produced by a division of the Centers for Disease Control. Statistics on diseases and conditions, health care and insurance, injuries, vital statistics, drug use, smoking, etc. Includes links to research publications and data archives.

Data and statistics page of the Office of Minority Health, US Dept. of Health and Human Services. Includes statistical profiles of African-Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, American Indians, Latinos, and others. Also has links to other resources on issues related to minority health.

Find information about election administration issues, completed research and reports commissioned by EAC, information about EAC research in progress, and additional elections research issued by other organizations. Datasets are also available to download.

Homepage of the United States Census Bureau. The Census Bureau website provides data about the American public, such as population size, race, gender, ethnicity, ancestry, housing, commute time, family size, and educational attainment.

As part of the Department of Labor, the Bureau of Labor Statistics is responsible for tracking the U.S. labor market, as well as working conditions and price changes.

This UN resource provides data on international trade, national accounts, energy, industry, environment and demographic and social statistics gathered from national and international sources.

"The GSS gathers data on contemporary American society in order to monitor and explain trends and constants in attitudes, behaviors, and attributes. Hundreds of trends have been tracked since 1972. In addition, since the GSS adopted questions from earlier surveys, trends can be followed for up to 70 years. The GSS contains a standard core of demographic, behavioral, and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Among the topics covered are civil liberties, crime and violence, intergroup tolerance, morality, national spending priorities, psychological well-being, social mobility, and stress and traumatic events. Altogether the GSS is the single best source for sociological and attitudinal trend data covering the United States."

"To serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists, the ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation. Central to this mission is the active involvement of the ANES research community in all phases of the project."

StateMaster is a unique, statistical database which allows you to research and compare a multitude of different data on US states. They have compiled information from various primary sources such as the US Census Bureau, the FBI, and the National Center for Educational Statistics. StateMaster goes beyond the numbers to provide you with visualization technology like pie charts, maps, graphs and scatterplots. We also have thousands of map and flag images, state profiles, and correlations.

The European Union's statistics database contains data on general and regional EU statistics; economy and finance; population and social conditions; industry, trade and services; agriculture and fisheries; external trade; transport; environment and energy; and science and technology.

"The GHO data repository contains an extensive list of indicators, which can be selected by theme or through a multi-dimension query functionality. It is the World Health Organization's main health statistics repository."

"We are part of the pan-European CESSDA Catalogue. From there you can locate data and variables from selected data collections stored at a number of European social science data archives. We also hold several key international survey series which can be found in our Data Catalogue."

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration provides statistical information on mental health services in the U.S., including patient demographic data, types of mental health services provided and expenditures.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is the lead federal agency for research on mental disorders. NIMH is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the nation’s medical research agency.

FastStats provides quick access to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Topics include diseases and conditions, injuries, life stages and populations, health care and insurance, births, and deaths. Content is updated automatically when the device is connected to the internet, giving the user the most up-to-date health statistics available.

The WHO Global InfoBase is a data warehouse that collects, stores and displays information on chronic diseases and their risk factors for all WHO member states.

Health and Human Services has 11 operating divisions, including eight agencies in the U.S. Public Health Service and three human services agencies. These divisions administer a wide variety of health and human services and conduct life-saving research for the nation.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) compiles and shares statistics on the ASEAN region and its member states.

The European Union's statistics database contains data on general and regional EU statistics; economy and finance; population and social conditions; industry, trade and services; agriculture and fisheries; external trade; transport; environment and energy; and science and technology.

WHO’s Communicable Disease Global Atlas is bringing together for analysis and comparison standardized data and statistics for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels.

The Global Health Observatory (GHO) is WHO's portal providing access to data and analyses for monitoring the global health situation.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) publishes data on their lending, exchange rates, and other international economic and financial indicators.

Test of educational abilities of 15-year-olds from over 70 countries.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) collects data and compiles statistics for countries around the world. The scope of their interest ranges include agriculture, the environment, health, and trade.

Collects a variety of educational statistics for the federal government of Canada.

Assessment of 4th and 8th grade students from more than 60 countries.

Find statistics related to the UN's educational programs and development goals.

This UN resource provides data on international trade, national accounts, energy, industry, environment and demographic and social statistics gathered from national and international sources.

A data warehouse that collects, stores and displays information on chronic diseases and their risk factors for all WHO member states.

The World Bank collects and shares data on international development.

Provides data for individual countries, as well as data from international assessments such as PISA or TIMSS.

"The Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities."

WHO is an agency of the United Nations and coordinates international health initiatives and research.