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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

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  • USA.gov Data and Statistics
    Use this page to find links to statistics from U.S. government agencies by topic.

  • Data.gov
    "The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government."

  • FedStats
    Use this web page to get to historical statistics. An archive more than a resource for current statistics.

 

 

Business & Economics

  • Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) : United States Department of Commerce
    "BEA produces economic accounts statistics that enable government and business decision-makers, researchers, and the American public to follow and understand the performance of the Nation's economy. To do this, BEA collects source data, conducts research and analysis, develops and implements estimation methodologies, and disseminates statistics to the public".

  • Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) : United States Department of Labor
    "BLS is an independent national statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other Federal agencies, State and local governments, business, and labor."

  • RITA (Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation)
    "The Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) coordinates the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) research programs and is charged with advancing the deployment of cross-cutting technologies to improve our Nation's transportation system. As directed by Congress in its founding legislation, RITA leads DOT in:

    • Coordinating, facilitating and reviewing the Department's research and development programs and activities
    • Advancing innovative technologies, including intelligent transportation systems
    • Performing comprehensive transportation statistics research, analysis and reporting
    • Providing education and training in transportation and transportation-related fields

  • Economic Census (United States Census Bureau)
    The "official 5-year measure of American business".

  • Census of Governments: Federal, State, and Local (U.S. Census Bureau)
    Public employment & payroll, finance, public employee retirement systems, tax collections, federal expenditures, and more...

  • Foreign Trade Statistics (U.S. Census Bureau)
    U.S. trade, state exports, company profiles and trade deficit levels.

  • House Ways and Means Committee Prints via the Government Printing Office
    "The House Committee on Ways and Means is the oldest standing committee in Congress. It was created in 1789 and has jurisdiction over legislation, methods, and means of raising revenue for the use of the government. In addition to legislating, the Committee exercises broad oversight authority over economic policy, international trade, welfare, Social Security, Medicare and health care policy."

  • Industry and Occupation (United States Census Bureau)
    Data and information on labor force trends in the economy.

  • Industry, Trade and the Economy : Data and Analysis (International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce)
    National trade data, state export data, TradeStats Express, trade analysis and industry information.

  • Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
    Interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States.

  • HUD USER Data Sets
    United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) data sets including the American Housing Survey, HUD median family income limits, microdata from research initiatives such as housing discrimination, the HUD-insured multifamily housing stock, and the public housing population.

  • Poverty : United States Census Bureau
    Poverty thresholds, definitions, microdata access, poverty tables, poverty measurement studies.

  • Social Security Administration Office of Policy
    "The Office of Policy serves as the Social Security Administration's focal point for policy analysis and research, evaluation, and statistics."

  • The Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
    Aggregate time series data documenting historical labor market trends and historical employment and earnings data at the state level.

Census, Population, & Demographics

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Environment

  • Envirofacts Data Warehouse (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
    "your one-stop source for environmental information"

  • The National Agricultural Statistics Service
    Reports covering virtually every aspect of United States agriculture: production and supplies of food and fiber, prices paid and received by farmers, farm labor and wages, farm finances, chemical use, and changes in the demographics of United States producers

  • Climate Change (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
    "EPA's Climate Change Site offers comprehensive information on the issue of climate change in a way that is accessible and meaningful to all parts of society — communities, individuals, business, states and localities, and governments."

  • National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
    "The National Oceanographic Data Center is a national repository and dissemination facility for global oceanographic data which acquires and preserves a historical record of the Earth's changing environment to be used for operational applications and ocean climate research."

  • Monitoring and Assessing Water Quality
    The National Water Quality Inventory Report to Congress (305(b) report) is the primary vehicle for informing Congress and the public about general water quality conditions in the United States. This document characterizes our water quality, identifies widespread water quality problems of national significance, and describes various programs implemented to restore and protect our waters.

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