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Pennsylvania Statistics & Data

 

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Stephen Woods
Title: Social Sciences Librarian Specializing in Data and Government Information


Subject Specialist:
Statistics and Data
U.S. Government Documents
814-865-0665
e-mail: sjw31@psu.edu

Social Sciences Library

 

Census, Population, and Demographics

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

  • 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 and 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 and Children

Health

More Resources

 

Law and Criminal Justice

Uniform Crime Reporting System (UCR). Pennsylvania

  • View the annual Crime in Pennsylvania report in PDF format
  • Run standard formatted reports for a selected month or year-to-date
  • Build your own query of the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data
  • View Pennsylvania UCR Geographic Information
  • Build your own NIBRS (National Incident-Based Reporting System) Reports

 

 

Politics and 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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