American FactFinder allows you to view, print, and download statistics about population, housing,industry, and business. Using FactFinder, you can create reference and thematic maps; and search for specific data. American FactFinder includes Decennial censuses, Economic Census and the American Community Survey.
FedStats has not been updated since 2007. However, it is still useful as a reference and access point to statistical departments and agencies of the U.S. federal government.
It provides access to the full range of official statistical information produced by the Federal Government without having to know in advance which Federal agency produces which particular statistic. It links to more than 100 agencies that provide data and trend information on such topics as economic and population trends, crime, education, health care, aviation safety, energy use, farm production and more. - Website
ProQuest Statistical Insight provides abstracting, indexing, and full text for publications from hundreds of public domain and licensed sources.
* U.S. Federal statistical publications. 5,000 titles/year. Coverage from 1973; full text from 200.
* U.S. State government and business statistical reports. 2,200 titles/year. Coverage from 1980; full text from 2007.
* International statistical publications from the UN, OECD, EU, etc. 2,500 titles/year. Coverage from 1980. Full text from 2007
StateMaster allows the user to research and compare data on US states. Information is compiled from various sources such as the US Census Bureau, the FBI, and the National Center for Educational Statistics. Data may be displayed in pie charts, maps, graphs and scatterplots. Includes thousands of map and flag images, state profiles, and correlations.
• Census Data: a Research Guide
A guide created by Lucinda Hall for U.S. and some foreign census information. For the U.S. there are convenient tabs for the decennial census, historical census data, and the American Community Survey (ACS).
ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States
2013 -
Ref HA201 .A35 (Latest Ed. in Reference, previous eds. in Berry stacks)
• Statistical Abstract of the United States (U.S. Bureau of the Census)
1878-2012
An important summary of statistical tables about all aspects of the U.S.
The web page shows the current edition. A tab for "Earlier Editions" leads to PDFs for most of the previous editions.
Statistical tables also cite their "Source" so users can often work back to more extensive statistical information.
The Census discontinued publication of the Statistical Abstract with the 2012 vol.
• Historical Statistics of the United States
From ealiest times to 2003.
"Historical Statistics of the United States has long been the standard source for quantitative indicators of American history....[This] revised, updated, and expanded Millennial Edition contains considerably more information than its immediate predecessor: five volumes rather than two, more than twice as many pages of data and documentation, and a tripling of the number of data series – 37,339 in the new edition. - Preface
Print Edition:
• Historical Statistics of the United States : earliest times to the present / Susan B. Carter ... [et al.].
Millennial Ed.
New York : Cambridge University Press, c2006.
5v.
Baker Berry Ref. HA202 .H57 2006
States Perform
The Council of State Governments
This website provides users "access to interactive, customizable and up to date comparative performance measurements for the 50 states."
The data cover fiscal and economic matters, public safety and justice, energy and environment, transportation, health and human services, and education, and may be searched in four ways.- CHOICE review