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AmeriStat
"AmeriStat is developed by PRB [Population Reference Bureau] in partnership with demographer Bill Frey and his colleagues at the University of Michigan's Social Science Data Analysis Network. AmeriStat gives you instant summaries - in graphics and text - of the demographic characteristics of the U.S. population: 2000 Census, Children, Education, Labor/Employment, Fertility, Foreign-Born, Income/Poverty, Marriage/Family, Migration, Mortality, Older Population, Political Arithmetic, Estimates/Projections, Race/Ethnicity."
American Religion Data Archive
"The American Religion Data Archive (ARDA) is a project funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc. and acts to preserve quantitative data on American religion, to improve access to this data, to increase the use of the data, and to allow comparisons across data files. The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations)."
Assessing the New Federalism State Database
"Assessing the New Federalism is a multi-year Urban Institute research project to analyze the devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government to the states, focusing primarily on health care, income security, job training, and social services. Researchers monitor program changes and fiscal developments. In collaboration with Child Trends, the project is studying the well-being of children and families. Findings should assist state and local policy makers in designing new policies and programs by providing information about significant developments."
Bureau of Justice Statistics
"The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), a component of the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice, is the United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics. BJS collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to Federal, State, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded."
See also: Uniform Crime Reports for the United States. [Ref. HV6787 .A3]
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Government agency which produces such works as Economic Indicators, Consumer Price Index, and the Monthly Labor Review.
Compare Minnesota
Full-text of the current edition of Compare Minnesota: An Economic & Statistical Factbook. Provided by the Minnesota Department of Trade and Economic Development.
Consumer Expenditure Survey
This program consists of two surveys-the quarterly Interview survey and the Diary survey-that provide information on the buying habits of American consumers, including data on their expenditures, income, and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics.
Consumer Price Index
The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides this page, featuring the current CPI and explanatory information about the interpretation of it.
Economic Statistics Briefing Room
"The purpose of this service is to provide easy access to current Federal economic indicators. It provides links to information produced by a number of Federal agencies. All of the information included in the Economic Statistics Briefing Room is maintained and updated by the statistical units of those agencies. All the estimates for the indicators presented in the Federal Statistics Briefing Rooms are the most currently available values."
Education Statistics at a Glance
Education Statistics at a Glance brings together data from several NCES sources including: The Condition of Education, The Digest of Education Statistics, and Projections of Education Statistics.
FedStats
"Access official statistics collected and published by more than 100 Federal agencies without having to know in advance which agency produces them."
InfoNation
Statistics on 185 United Nations members, taken from the UN's World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook.
National Agricultural Statistics Service
"Each year, the employees of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) conduct hundreds of surveys and prepare reports covering virtually every facet of U.S. agriculture -- production and supplies of food and fiber, prices paid and received by farmers, farm labor and wages, farm aspects of the industry."
Population Profile of the United States
" The Population Profile of the United States: 2000 is an attempt to provide the public with updated information in the years in which a print version is not issued. While not all chapters a few have not been updated, the report provides the most recent information on each topic as of October 2001."
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Statistics on crime and attitudes about crime/criminals proved by The School of Criminal Justice at the University of Albany and U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
State and County Quick Facts
"QuickFacts tables are summary profiles showing frequently requested data items from various Census Bureau programs. Profiles are available at the national, state, and county level."
State Health Facts Online
"This ... resource contains the latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation." Sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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