Research Guides: Public Policy & Administration: Statistics

Harris Polling
Economy, education, environment, health, politics, science, technology, lifestyles.

Census Data
Explore Census data of the U.S. - Population, housing, income, ancestry, language spoken, etc
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Bureau of Labor Statistics

Community Analyst Online - ESRI
Web-based, user-friendly GIS mapping application. CAO combines detailed demographic and housing data to enable users to explore a community or neighborhood and run reports for a specific address or location. Please contact your faculty member or UMKC Libraries for an account. Activate just once to access Business Analyst and Community Analyst. Reactivation is required every few months. Keep track of your login/password. Your work will be saved in your personal profile.

International Monetary Fund
Global data, housing, balance of payments, direction of trade,
National Center for Education Statistics
K-12 and postsecondary data and reserach
OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Pew Research Center
PEW Internet and American Life Project
SocArXiv
Temporary new site created when SSRN was purchased by Elsevier.
State of the Cities Data Systems
The SOCDS, maintained by HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research, pulls together a large amount of information on housing and economic development and allows users to directly access data for individual Metropolitan Areas, Central Cities, and Suburbs.
SSRN
Social Science Research Network. A world wide collaborative devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research. Working papers, downloadable documents. Recently purchased by Elsevier.

Social Explorer Professional
Interactive and customizable maps to display historic and current U.S. Census data. Select Use as a Guest when asked to login. Guides and videos available by clicking on Help within the tool.

OAIster
Contains digital resources from open archive collections and open digital repositories; born-digital texts, audio files, images, movies, datasets, theses, technical reports, research papers, image collections.

World Bank Data
International statistics - Agriculture, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Debt, Financial Sector, Gender , Health, Labor, Poverty, Private Sector, Public Sector, Science, Social Development, Trade, Urban Development.
Also see the World Development Indicators page.

Center for Disease Control & Prevention
Data and statistics by health topic
CDC FastStats A to Z
National Institutes of Health
Links to statistics provided by different national health institutes

Finding Statistics and Data

Strategy for Finding Statistics and Data
CC By-SA: Created by Grace Liu, Business Librarian, West Chester University; Advised by Bobray Bordelon, Economics & Finance Librarian/Data Services Librarian, Princeton University; Reviewed by Rashelle Nagar, Business Research & Collections Librarian, Stanford University