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Statistics

American FactFinder
"American FactFinder is designed to help you find the information you need with special features like: Fact Sheet and People, Housing, and Business and Government pages, where you can find narratives, facts, trends, tables, predefined Thematic Maps Data, and Sets, where you can access all available tables for the Decennial Censuses for 1990 and 2000, the Decennial Supplementary Survey, the American Community Survey, conducted annually since 1996, the Economic Census for 1997, and 2002 Population Estimates. Reference Maps that display the boundaries of Census geographic areas."

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Provides statistics about employment, productivity, price indexes, and compensation.

Dataplace: Explore Data About Places
"DataPlace lets you view tables, charts, and maps of data about states, counties, cities, zip codes and census tracts in the United States, from sources such as Census, HUD, Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, and Section 8 Expiring Use."

Datafinder
"This database contains data on 95 demographic variables for more than 220 countries, 28 world regions and sub-regions, the world as a whole, the United States as a whole, and the U.S. states, by Population Reference Bureau."

Disability Statistics: an Online Resource for U.S. Disability Statistics
Produced by Cornell University, this site "condenses several data sources into a single, user-friendly, accessible, Internet resource. It also provides essential background information on key issues related to disability statistics."

EconData
"EconData.Net is designed to help practitioners, researchers, students, and other data users quickly gain access to relevant state and substate socioeconomic data. The site aims to be a convenient, comprehensive first stop for anyone searching among the vast, disparate array of public and private data sources on the Web. EconData.Net is sponsored by the Economic Development Administration as a service to regional data users, and is jointly operated by Impresa, Inc. and Andrew Reamer & Associates, independent economic development consulting firms."

FedStats
"FedStats provides information for Federal agencies reporting expenditures of at least $500,000 per year in one or more statistical activities."

Glossary of Statistical Terms
"This glossary is part of the educational software program, Statistics Explained, written by: Dr. Howard S. Hoffman, Professor Emeritus, Bryn Mawr University."

Health Statistics from the Americas This online publication presents health data submitted by individual countries of the Americas for dissemination to the international health community.

NCES: National Center for Education Statistics
Provides clear, complete information about NCES' mission and activities, and to serves the research, education and other interested communities.

National Center for Charitable Statistics
"The National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) is the national repository of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States. Its mission is to develop and disseminate high quality data on nonprofit organizations and their activities for use in research on the relationships between the nonprofit sector, government, the commercial sector, and the broader civil society. The Center was established in 1982 and has been a project of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy (CNP) at the Urban Institute since July 1996, when it was transferred from the research division of Independent Sector."

OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web
Current global data searchable geographically or by broad topic category. Compiled by the University of Auckland Library.

Pennsylvania State Data Center
"The Pennsylvania State Data Center (PaSDC) was established in 1981 by Executive Order of the Governor to serve as the Commonwealth's official source of population and socio-economic statistics. The PaSDC also serves as the state's liaison to the Census Bureau and as the representative to the Federal-State Cooperative Programs for Population Estimates and Projections."

Statistical Abstracts 1878-2007
Statistical Abstract data present here ranges from our most recent edition to the historical abstracts compiled throughout the decades. Some of the data were scanned as an effort to make historical abstract information available to the public. The display of data will continue as historical records become available. For access to volumes not available through this project, please call your local Federal Depository Library.

Statistical Resources on the Web
The University of Michigan Documents Center has compiled and categorized links for agriculture, business and industry, comprehensive subjects, consumers, cost-of-living, demographics, economics, education, energy, environment, finance, foreign, government, data sources, foreign/international economics, foreign trade, government finances, health, housing, labor, military, politics, science, sociology, tourism, transportation, and weather.