Research Guides: Mathematics and Statistics: Subject-Specific Statistics

Subject Specific Resources

This page contains a non-exhaustive lists of statistics resources for subjects that have a higher demand for statistics. For a more in-depth list of resources, check out the guide for your subject of research!

Business

SimplyAnalytics This link opens in a new window
A mapping, analytics, and data visualization application with 200,000+ data variables, including demographic census data, 23 million+ businesses, and survey marketing & health data. To access, first create a personal workspace or log-in as a guest.
Limited to 10 simultaneous users.
Social Explorer This link opens in a new window
Digitized maps and census data related to demographic information in the U.S. Coverage: 1790 - 2000. Limited to three simultaneous users.
Key Business Ratios This link opens in a new window
Competitive industry and company benchmarking data. Includes solvency ratios, efficiency ratios, and profitability ratios. Coverage: past five years.

Bureau of Economic Analysis
Includes gross domestic products (GDP) and other economic data from the Bureau of Economics.
Consumer Expenditure Survey
This survey focuses upon the buying habits of U.S. consumers, including information on various income, expenditures, and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics.
Economic Census
The Economic Census is the U.S. Government's official five-year measure of American business and the economy. It is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, and response is required by law.
Local Area Personal Income
Includes tables that provide over thirty years of historical data.
Metropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates
Metropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates
Current 2006 edition. Searchable by State and selected cities.
Occupational Employment Statistics
The OES produces employment and wage estimates for over 800 occupations. These are estimates of the number of people employed in certain occupations, and estimates of the wages paid to them.
OSHA Statistics and Data
Official website for the Department of Occupational Safety and Health. Allows search of SIC codes by keyword.
Tables for Race and Ethnic Distributions
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has created tables based on 2000 Census for U.S. states, metropolitan areas and counties.

More Resources:

Business Administration Research Guide
This guide created by the Library's Business Subject Specialist includes in-depth look at the most important library resources for business statistics.

Economics

Consumer Price Index
Monthly reports on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services.
Current Industrial Reports
Provides data are used to satisfy economic policy needs and for market analysis, forecasting, and decision-making in the private sector.
Data on the Net
Search or browse listings of 363 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.
Economic Indicators
Published monthly by the Council of Economic Advisors for the Joint Economic Committee, provides economic information on GDP, income, employment, production, business activity, prices, money, credit, security markets, Federal finance, and international statistics.
Federal Reserve Board: Statistics Releases
Provides releases and historical data.
FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data )
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) provides over 19,599 U.S. economic time series. With FRED® you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series.
IMF International Financial Statistics Online
Contains time series data from 1948. Includes Country, World, and Commodity Prices Tables. Economic Concept View provides a cross-country view of the concepts in the IFS by individual or groups of countries.
Panel Studies of Income Dynamics
Nationally representative study of nearly 8,000 U.S. families. Following the same familes since 1968, the PSID collects information on economic, health and social behavior.
Population Reference Bureau
Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment,
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
United States Economy at a Glance
Features statistics on unemployment, productivity, and consumer price index from the Bureau of Labor.

Social Sciences Stats

African Development Bank Group (AfDB)
Over the last several years, AfDB has intensified its statistical capacity building activities in African countries motivated by the need for reliable and up-to-date data for better measuring, monitoring and managing development.
Bureau of Justice Statistics - International Justice Statistics
A unit of the U.S. Department of Justice whose principal function is the compilation and analysis of data and the dissemination of information for statistical purposes.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
Encyclopedia of Social Measurement
This resource captures the data, techniques, theories, designs, applications, histories, and implications of assigning numerical values to social phenomena.
Eurostat: statistics on Europe.
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.
The General Social Survey (GSS)
The General Social Survey (GSS) conducts basic scientific research on the structure and development of American society with a data-collection program designed to both monitor societal change within the United States and to compare the United States to other nations.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Designed to give users a variety of means to search and navigate the vast amount of data. Users can create custom tables; merge columns from multiple tables to create custom tables, which can also be downloaded, printed, or graphed.
Passport GMID
Euromonitor International's Global Market Information Database provides global business intelligence on industries, countries, and consumers. It offers inegrated access to statistics, reports, insightful comment and business information sources.
Pew Charitable Trusts
One of the world's most widely respected independent nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations. Reports and collected data are created for studies of the environment, human health, policy, media, journalism, education, and elections.
United Nations Statistical Databases
The United Nations provides free access to over 15 UN statistical databases.
The World Bank's Open Data initiative
The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available.

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