Census of Governments [Details]

  County and City Data Book [Details]

Presents statistics on such topics as population, health, crime, education, income, trade for each county and incorporated city with 25,000 inhabitants or more. CD-ROM; Ask at the Research & Consultation Desk.

  Data.gov [Details]

Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.

  FedStats [Details]

"The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. federal agencies."

  Financial Report of the U.S. Government [Details]

  Governing State & Local Sourcebook [Details]

Data about the states and the largest U.S. municipalities, as well as contact information on state and local decision makers. This site contains essential information in 10 categories, including data on revenue, spending, employment, technology trends, health insurance coverage and other important topics. The data is customizable and searchable, and will be frequently updated. You can compare governments in key areas, monitor trends over time, create data tables

  Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970 [Details]

A compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources last updated in the distant 1975 and has been expanded to include over 37,000 data series. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. The fully searchable and downloadable edition will permit users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.

  ICPSR [Details]

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research holdings include several time series and other types of aggregate data, its holdings consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. The data holdings contain some 6,000 studies and 450,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse. Click for searching tips.

  ICPSR tutorial [Details]

  Polling the Nation [Details]

The database includes 12,000 surveys and 250,000 questions on more than 3,500 topics. Scope is international, from the United States, to more than 60 other countries.

  Social Trends and Indicators USA [Details]

"Provides detailed statistics on social issues paired with expert analyses of the statistics."

  STAT-USA [Details]

Economic, business and international trade information produced by the U.S. Government.

  Statistical (Lexis Nexis) [Details]

Provides the index and abstracts to American Statistics Index (U.S. government statistical sources). Contains over 100,000 statistical publications and is searchable by subject, category, title and author.

  Statistical Abstract of the United States [Details]

Includes everything from government spending to the environment to communications. It is a most comprehensive one-volume reference source on the Nation's economic and social condition.

  United States Historical Census Data Browser [Details]

Historical statistical data derived from the U.S. Census of Population and Housing.

  USA Counties [Details]

Contains demographic, economic and government data for varying time periods including all the data from the last 3 editions of the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book and the County and City Data Book. The 1992 CD-ROM is available at the Research and Consultation Desk.