Internet Guide - Statistics/Demographics
American Factfinder
http://factfinder.census.gov
"Population, housing, economic and geographic" statistics (and more) from the Census Bureau.
Bureau of Economic Analysis
http://www.bea.gov
Economic statistics from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
Criminal Justice Statistics from the U.S. Department of Justic.
CensusScope
http://www.censusscope.org
CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic trends, brought to you by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) at the University of Michigan.
Documents Center (University of Michigan)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
Vast and comprehensive resource for statistics in every discipline, maintained at U of M.
KidsCount
http://www.aecf.org/MajorInitiatives/KIDSCOUNT.aspx
National and state-by-state data on the status of children in the U.S.
Immigration Statistics from the Dept. of Homeland Security
http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/data
Data from the DHS, including maps of US migration, profiles on naturalized citizens, and the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
http://www.ncjrs.org
Fed-sponsored database of justice and substance abuse information "to support research, policy, and program development"
National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER)
http://nieer.org
Rutgers Institute for Early Childhood Educators; includes a useful state databank and a newsfilter
Nationmaster
http://www.nationmaster.com
Statistics by nation on a number of attributes, with graphs and charts on the fly
NCES: National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov
U.S. Dept. of Education Statistical Info for Educators and policymakers.
SchoolMatters (formerly S&P's SEP)
http://www.schoolmatters.com
Standard and Poor's online school comparison site. Just about the best free site out there for researching your public school district.
Intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/statistics/
Internet directory of statistics, compiled by various UK academic and government entities.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook
Brings together data from more than 100 sources about all aspects of criminal justice in the United States, supported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics
State of the Cities Data Systems (SOCDS)
http://socds.huduser.org
From HUD, the SOCDS provides all kinds of data for individual Metropolitan Areas, Central Cities, and Suburbs, Westland included!
Statistical Abstract of the United States
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
The chief U.S. statistical resource, from the U.S. Census Bureau
TradeStats Express
http://tse.export.gov
Government webtool which displays state and federal trade statistics quickly/graphically, from the Office of Trade and Economic Analysis (OTEA), Dept. of Commerce
U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov
Home of the U.S. Census, taken every 10 years, with lots of data about our nation and its population.
