PSC/SOC 340/JS 504: Social Science Research Methods

Central source for demographic and economic for the U.S.

site makes use of Trendanalyzer software to offer visualizations of statistics on a wide topic range e.g.best teeth, farm subsidies, carbon emissions, public services, and globalization. Also, you can create your own graphs by inputting your own data.

-maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

A comprehensive look at the well-being of children & non-elderly adults, revealing sometimes striking differences among the 13 states studied. The survey provides quantitative measures of low income children, adults and families.

Search hundreds of indicators, thousands of locations, and easily create custom reports to print, download, and share.

Explore 220 years of demographic data with over 20,000 socio-economic indicators between 1790 and the present. Includes all decennial censuses, American Community Surveys, and two religion surveys.

-a statistics web portal that gathers data from over 18,000 sources. It's main business is as a pay site, but much of what they offer is free. Be sure to check out the sources for the information you retrieve -- you may be able to go to those sources and access those statistics directly.

Comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Tables cover health, elections, employment, population, earnings, transportation, banking, crime, etx.

- a listing of available World Bank datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resources.

-the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.

Scrutinizes family incomes, jobs, wages, unemployment, wealth, poverty, and health care coverage, describing the economy's effect on our nation's standard of living

-the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy.

Statistics about crime and victims, drugs and crime, criminal offenders, the justice system in the United States, law enforcement, prosecution, courts and sentencing, corrections, justice expenditure and employment

Links to statistics on cancer, infant deaths, STDs, morbidity & mortality, etc.

Provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages.

Presents national trends in health statistics on such topics as birth and death rates, infant mortality, life expectancy, morbidity and health status, risk factors, use of ambulatory and inpatient care, health personnel and facilities, financing of health care, health insurance and managed care, and other health topics.

-source of information about America's health. The Nation's principal health statistics agency compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of the nation's people.

A triennial survey of the balance sheet, pension, income, and other demographic characteristics of U.S. families. The survey also gathers information on the use of financial institutions.

Personal wealth data for the living population are derived from estate tax data. The estimates are limited to that segment of the population for whom personal wealth is at least equal to the estate tax filing threshold in effect for the estimation period.