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The purpose of this website is to assist the research community with data identification, access and analysis at the University of Kansas.
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The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations).
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Describes the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the principal fact-finding agency for the federal government in the field of labor economics and statistics. The bureau collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates sensitive economic and statistical data to the American public, Congress, other federal agencies, state and local governments, business, and labor. Includes links to information about major BLS programs, BLS data, BLS regional …
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Contains links to calculators for a variety of subjects.
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Contains public health news, health topics A-Z, traveler's health update, publications, software and products, data and statistics, information on diseases, prevention guidelines, and links to related internet resources.
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The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) is part of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and is dedicated to furthering the interdisciplinary study of global environmental change. CIESIN specializes in the access and integration of physical, natural, and socioeconomic information across scientific disciplines. This site contains online tools and applications as well as downloadable GIS data, spatial data …
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Provides search capability of Internet resources which contain numeric social science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, and addresses.
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Statistical data on the U.S. economy from the national to the local level, organized primarily by business or industrial unit.
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The Economic Report of the President is an annual report written by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. It overviews the nation's economic progress using text and extensive data appendices.
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Economic Research and Education resources created by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Economic time-series statistics, full-text economic publications, GIS applications, educational materials. Individually branded resources include: ALFRED (ArchivaL Federal Reserve Economic Data) CASSIDI (Competitive Analysis and Structure Source Instrument for Depository Institutions) ECON DISC (Data and Information Service Center) FRASER (Federal …
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Education Statistics brings together data from several National Center for Education Statistics sources including: The Condition of Education, The Digest of Education Statistics, and Projections of Education Statistics.
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ESRI Data and Maps' refers to the variety of vector and raster data that come with ArcGIS software. Students, staff and faculty can download datasets via the KU Libraries network. These data are available through the campus GIS site license, managed by the Kansas Biological Survey. Geographic coverages include the world, United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe. Small-scale, or less detailed data, are available for the world. More detailed …
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Eurostat is the Statistical Office of the European Communities.Find tables, data, and publications related to a variety of topics at the European level, such as: economy, trade, finance, agriculture, and the environment.
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Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST) is a free-of-charge service for politicians, journalists, researchers and the interested public. FIRST is a joint project of the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The integrated database system contains clearly documented information from research institutes around the world. It covers areas in the …
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Links to almanacs, factbooks, statistical reports and related reference tools.
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The Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center (FJSRC) maintains the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) database, which contains information about suspects and defendants processed in the Federal criminal justice system. Using data obtained from Federal agencies, the FJSP compiles comprehensive information describing defendants from each stage of Federal criminal case processing.
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FedStats provides access to official statistics collected and published by more than 100 Federal agencies without having to know in advance which agency produces them. It uses the Internet's powerful linking and searching capabilities to track economic and population trends, education, health care costs, aviation safety, foreign trade, energy use, farm production, and more. All of the statistical information available through FedStats is …
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An almost annual, "omnibus," personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC). Since 1972 more than 35,000 respondents have answered over 2500 different questions.
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Provides geopolitical data, statistics on the human population, Earth and more. Includes data on the population of regions, countries, provinces and cities; statistics on such economic factors as wealth and infrastructure; and statistics on natural phenoma.
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Website for the GIS and Numeric Data Lab at the University of Kansas. This Lab provides workspace for KU students, staff and faculty, as well as one-on-one assistance with spatial and statistical data. Users also have access to tutorials, specialized software, large-format scanning and printing, and other resources that support GIS-related teaching and research at KU. Usage does not include for-profit work.
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Homepage for the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association (GODORT). GODORT provides a forum for discussion of problems and concerns, and for the exchange of ideas by librarians working with government documents. It also provides a force for initiating and supporting programs to increase availability, use and bibliographic control of documents.
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Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
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Contains links to the most recent statistical abstracts for the individual states of the United States. All sources contain statistical tables on a variety of subjects for the states as a whole, its component parts, or both.
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Health Poll Search is a searchable archive of public opinion questions on health issues. It allows users to know what Americans think about health issues, as well as what Americans have thought about health issues over time. Health Poll Search is the result of a partnership between the Kaiser Family Foundation and The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut.
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The data presented describes the population and economy of states and counties from 1790 to 1960, including state and county topics for individual census years. From this site it is possible to produce tables of data by state or county; sort data by selected categories; create ratios between any two data categories; and generate maps of selected data.
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Official and up-to-date information and statistics regarding the countries of the world.
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Contains over 720 annotated links to data-related resources on the Internet, compiled by the Data and Program Library Service of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Contains the latest available state, county, and city-level data for Kansas on population, vital statistics and health, housing, elections, education, business and manufacturing, exports, employment, income, finance, state and local government, crime, recreation, communications, transportation, agriculture, climate, energy, and mining and mineral products.
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A collection of interactive sites on the Web that estimate, calculate, evaluate, translate, etc. Sites are organized by broad categories including scinece/math, health, finance, "All 'Round the House," and "A Measure of Everything Else."
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Provides timely, accurate, and useful statistics covering virtually every facet of U.S. agriculture, including production and supplies of food and fiber, prices paid and received by farmers, farm labor and wages, and farm aspects of the industry.
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NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data as it relates to education in the United States and other nations.
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Provides quick and easy access to the wide range of information and data available from the National Center for Health Statistics. Includes links to additional sources of health information and an electronic answering service for specific questions.
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Provides information on skills, abilities, and work activities associated with various occupations.
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Archive of machine-readable data, including data from the Louis Harris public opinion polls, National Center for Health Statistics, National Network of State Polls, and an extensive collection of U.S. Census data. Also available are data from studies conducted by University of North Carolina social science faculty.
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Database of statistical sources on the web. Links can be browsed or searched by region, country, or subject.
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Features the Penn World Tables, written by Alan Heston and Robert Summers and published online by Computing in the Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) at the University of Toronto in Canada. The tables contain international comparisons of over 150 countries in 29 subjects.
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Provides information about the population dimensions of important social, economic, and political issues. Disseminates timely and objective information on U.S. and international population trends and their implications.
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RePEc is a clearinghouse site that provides a centralized access point to research in Economics and related fields. Through RePEc, access can be made to working papers, citations to published literature in journals and monographs, software components for statistical analysis, and contact information for individual researchers and research institutions (colleges and university economics departments, research institutes, governmental …
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Annotated list of websites that provide social science data, as selected by Stanford University's Social Sciences Data Service, with capabilities for extraction and/or downloading.
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The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States.
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Contains quick, easy access to facts about people, business, and geography. Includes data for cities and towns with more than 25,000 people.
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Directory of census State Data Centers (SDCs). Includes links to SDC annual reports, calendars of events, meeting notes, redistricting information, and demographic profile information.
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The SOCDS provides data for individual metropolitan areas, central cities, and suburbs. This data includes demographic and economic characteristics of the population from the U.S. census, 1970-2000, current employment statistics for city residents, data on violent and property crime rates collected by the FBI, and information on local building permits.
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Data presented on statehealthfacts.org are a selection of key health and health policy issues collected from a variety of public and private sources, including: original Kaiser Family Foundation reports, data from public websites, and information purchased from private organizations.
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The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. (From Statistical Abstract homepage: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/ April 09, 2008)
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Consists of links to the offical government statistic agency websites of many of the world's nations.
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This University of Michigan Documents Center site is a comprehensive portal to statistics, including information on agriculture, business and industry, consumers, cost of living, demographics, economics, education, energy, environment, finance and currency, foreign economics, foreign governments, foreign trade, government finances, health, housing, labor, military, politics, science, sociology, transportation, and weather.
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Information center for Swedish, foreign and international statistics.
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Contains information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. Includes full text of selected BJS documents. Also offers links to sites with related information.
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Home page of the U.S. Census Bureau. This site provides state population profiles based on the latest census figures, census maps, and information about the Census Bureau.
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IPC works with other governments with the collection, analysis, and dissemination of national statistics. Find international census data, international statistical agencies, and information about open-access software entering and tabulating census data.
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Portal that retrieves data series from the United Nations System and other international organizations. Sources include FAO, ILO, WHO, and the Human Development Report. Country profiles and glossaries are also provided.
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Contains global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, technology, culture and communication.
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Provides criminal justice statistics for law enforcement administration, operation, and management, and to indicate fluctuations in the level of crime in America. Includes special studies, reports, and monographs prepared using data mined from the Uiform Crime Reports (UCR) large database. In addition to these reports, information about the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and UCR Frequently Asked Questions are also available …
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Contains official United Kingdom statistics on Britain's economy, population and society at the national and local levels.
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The United Nations Statistical Division collects, compiles, and makes available a variety of statistics. They also assist with developing standards and norms for national statistical systems. Find statistics related to development, economics, the environment, and many more.
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Contains detailed information from recent surveys and historical trends in selected areas. Estimates and projections of voting-age population derived from administrative records and Census 2000 are also provided.
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Published by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), this website includes country-based information on flags, maps, geography, people, government, the economy, transportation, communication, and defense. Areas covered include Europe, Asia, Australia, North and South America, Antarctica, and Africa. Also includes a world summary.
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