Research Guides: Statistics & Polls: Statistics Websites

Use these search terms on the web

Finding statistics and polls to back up your ideas can be challenging. As you search the web and our databases use the following search terms:

Example: search - statistics graphs healthcare

Here are a few suggested United States websites.

American FactFinder / U.S. Census Bureau
Census data that is searchable by keyword or geography, which can be retrieved as data sets, maps, tables, and reports.
Bureau of Justice Statistics / Office of Justice Programs
"BJS gathers and disseminates information on crime and justice administration at all levels of government. Statistics concerning many aspects of law enforcement, courts, employment, offenders, and corrections can be found on its Web site." http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Employment, labor and industry statistics.
CDC - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/DataStatistics/
Links to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and CDC Wonder.
Data.gov
"Home of the U.S. Government's open data."
Federal Reserve Economic Data / Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"...a database of 25,388 U.S. economic time series. With FRED you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series." http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
National Center for Education Statistics / U.S. Dept. of Education
"...the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations." http://nces.ed.gov/

Data and Statistical Reports / Washington State Department of Health
http://www.doh.wa.gov/DataandStatisticalReports
Easy Stats from the Census Bureau
Choose from topics like Education, Financial, Jobs, Housing, or People and then see results by state and county. Download results into an Excel spreadsheet
National Center for Health Statistics / U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

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"...data concerning the health, mortality, disability, nutrition, disease, and health expenditures of the United States. "
SAMHSA Health Information Network (SHIN) / U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
http://www.store.samhsa.gov/home

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SAMHSA's mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America's communities. This site has thousands of down-loadable books and manuals.

Worldwide coverage for statistics.

globalEDGE
International in scope
OECD Stat Extracts (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development)
Statistics for 39 countries including economics/finance, demography, environmental, agriculture/fisheries, health, industry, IT, productivity, public sector, & social welfare. The interface allows you to customize data & download it to Excel or CSV files.
WHO (World Health Organization)
A clearinghouse for world health issues.
World Trade Organization
International trade and tariff data