Census, Population, & Demographics
American FactFinder (United States Census Bureau)
Source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data in United StatesMetropolitan Area Rankings List (United States Census Bureau)
Listing of population, persons, race, birth, death, per capita income, housing ratesPennsylvania 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 variablesState & County QuickFacts (United States Census Bureau)
Profiles of people, business and geography are available for the nation, states, counties, and large citiesState 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 levelsState Data Center (SDC) Program (United States Census Bureau)
Official sources of demographic, economic, and social statistics produced by the Census BureauState Rankings List (United States Census Bureau)
Education
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Pre K - 12th grade, higher education, and teaching in PennsylvaniaThe Pennsylvania State Data Center
The Commonwealth's official source of demographic and economic data
Environment
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
State agency monitoring environmental conditions of air, water, and land qualityUSDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service : Pennsylvania
Surveys and reports covering virtually every aspect of United States agriculture production and supplies
Family & Children
Annie E. Casey Foundation : Kids Count
A national and state-by-state effort to benchmark and track the status of children in the United States.Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare
Human services for families, children, disabled persons, low income, and health care in Pennsylvania
Health
EpiQMS (Pennsylvania Department of Health
"interactive health statistics web tool where you can create customized data tables, charts, maps and county assessments/profiles of birth, death, infant death, cancer, behavioral risk, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted disease, other communicable disease, and population statistics."Pennsylvania Department of Health. Bureau of Statistics and Research
"collects and maintains data to assist in planning, administering and evaluating the health status of Pennsylvania residents and the quality and quantity of health services within Pennsylvania."Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4)
Independent state agency responsible for addressing escalating health costs, quality of health care, and access for all citizensstatehealthfacts.org (The Kaiser Family Foundation
Health data on all 50 states; includes data collections and demographic & health coverage topics
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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