Fogler Library: GeoStats Spatial, Socioeconomic and Natural Resource Data Service

GeoStats: Spatial, Socioeconomic and Natural Resource Data Service

Useful links for numeric data

Agricultural Research Service site includes research reports, publications, databases, the National Agricultural Library, an image gallery, press releases, directory information and job listings
American Factfinder, from the U.S. Bureau of the Census, is the principal internet medium for access to data from the 1997 Economic Censuses, and the 1990 and 2000 Censuses of Population and Housing. (If you looked at it in the fall, you will find that a much improved version was recently put in place, after major work by IBM, Oracle, the Bureau, and testers from the State Census Data Centers.) The site includes:

Search functions for the site

Geographic Comparison Tables for Population and Housing data

Quick Reports for Economic data

Geographic Comparison Tables that help compare data for different geographic areas.

American Community Survey for each year it has been conducted.

Reference Maps that display the boundaries of Census geographic areas

Predefined thematic maps that display data items graphically.

Tools for creating some customized reports.

Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) (U.S. Department of Commerce) seeks to strengthen the understanding of the U.S. economy and its competitive position by providing the most accurate and relevant Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and economic accounts data.
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - Research Division promotes quality economic research in the areas of money and banking, macroeconomics, and international and regional economics. To this end, they have developed FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research) consisting of over 40 thousand pages of historical economic data; which when used in connection with the 3000+ U.S. economic time series contained in FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), allows you to create uninterrupted data series.
FedStats The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site. Provides easy access to statistics and information of interest to the public, produced by more than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government.
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research claims the world's largest archive of machine-readable social science data. It is headquartered within the University of Michigan and has hundreds of members worldwide.
Lipjhart Elections Archive, at the University of California-San Diego is a research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries.
MapStats State and county data available through a graphical interface: agriculture, business, crime, demographics, energy, environment, housing, immigration, and population. Companion site to FedStats.
Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota has the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS-98), which they created, consisting of statistical samples of the American population drawn from thirteen federal censuses.
The National Center for Education Statistics produces numerous reports based on education statistics. Some compendia of general educational statistics, and results of the several surveys the Department conducts, are available online.
Public Agenda Online, founded in 1975, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization. Through in-depth analyses and opinion studies, it aims
to give public officials and leaders of industry and organizations "information to weigh various choices and make educated decisions."
Statistics Canada is the main governmental source of Census and other socioeconomic numbers for Canada. Many tables are available online.
Unicon Research Corporation, offers research expertise in economics and statistics and specializes in studies of housing finance, labor markets, and human resource issues. On their "CPS on the Web" page they offer free access to the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of many official Government statistics, administered by the Bureau of the Census under the auspices of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The CPS has been conducted for over 50 years. Currently, about 50,000 households are interviewed monthly. Unicon also offers free downloadable software.

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Page Created by Frank Wihbey; revised by Karen Stewart: 12/28/11