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Census, Population, & Demographics

  • American FactFinder (United States Census Bureau)
    Source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data in United States

  • Metropolitan Area Rankings List (United States Census Bureau)
    Listing of population, persons, race, birth, death, per capita income, housing rates

  • Pennsylvania Spatial Data Access (PASDA)
    Interactive health statistics at this web site that can produce numbers, rates, graphs, charts, maps, and county profiles using various demographic variables

  • State & County QuickFacts (United States Census Bureau)
    Profiles of people, business and geography are available for the nation, states, counties, and large cities

  • State and Metropolitan Area Data Book (United States Census Bureau
    Collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States at the state and metropolitan area levels

  • State Data Center (SDC) Program (United States Census Bureau)
    Official sources of demographic, economic, and social statistics produced by the Census Bureau

  • State Rankings List (United States Census Bureau)

Education

Environment

Family & Children

Health

Law and Criminal Justice

Uniform Crime Reports. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

  • View the annual "Crime in PA" report in Adobe PDF format

  • Run standard formatted reports for a selected month or year-to-date

  • Build your own query of the Uniform Crime Reporting data

  • View Pennsylvania UCR Geographic Information

  • Build your own NIBRS (National Incident-Based Reporting System) Reports

Politics & Elections

  • Pennsylvania Election Statistics : 1682-2006
    "The Wilkes University Election Statistics Project"

    • Presidential county-level election returns for all parties, 1789-2004

    • Senatorial county-level election returns for all parties, 1912-2004

    • Gubernatorial county-level election returns for all parties, 1790-2002

    • Directory of Pennsylvania Colonial Legislators, 1682-1775

    • Directory of Pennsylvania State Legislators, 1776-2006

  • The American National Election Studies (ANES)
    "produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists who want to better understand the theoretical and empirical foundations of national election outcomes."

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Stephen Woods
814-865-0665

Social Sciences Library
814-865-4861
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