Sociology 215: Population Analysis / Locating Statistics

Selected Databases

LexisNexis Statistical
Statistics available as indexed tables from federal, state, and international intergovernmental(IGO) publications; searches American Statistics Index, Statistical Reference Index, and Index to International Statistics; provides links to web sites, governmental and nongovernmental; allows keyword searching.

Statistical Abstracts 
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/

Websites for Organizations and Government Agencies

  • Population and Demographics: United States

American Community Survey
http://www.census.gov/acs/www

American FactFinder
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

AmeriSTAT
http://www.ameristat.org/

BestPlaces.net—city info, data, stats
http://www.bestplaces.net

Census Bureau home page
http://www.census.gov

Census 2000 Demographic Profiles
http://censtats.census.gov/pub/Profiles.shtml

Census Scope Census 2000 Data: Charts, Maps, Rankings
http://www.censusscope.org

Chicago Pop CenterResearch – Social Demography
http://www.spc.uchicago.edu/orgs/prc

Historical United States Census Data Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus

Population and Household Economic statistical reports listed by topic
http://www.census.gov/population/www/

Vermont Center for Rural Studies, U.S. Census Bureau's VT State Data Center
http://crs.uvm.edu/census/

  • Population and Demographics: World

CIA – The World Factbook
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook

Historical Estimates of World Population
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldhis.html 

IDB Population Pyramids
http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=sosig1045238662-6255

International Database from the U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/

NPG—Negative Population Growth
http://www.npg.org

Pop Media Center, Ryerson
http://www.populationmedia.org

POPIN Data (United Nations Population Information Network)
http://www.un.org/popin/index.html

Population Index on the Web
http://popindex.princeton.edu/

Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
http://www.prb.org
Population news, analysis and publications published by a nonprofit, nonadvocacy population and environmental organization.

United Nations High Commission on Refugees
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home

United Nations  (home page)
http://www.un.org/en 

United Nations Population Fund—UNFPA
http://www.unfpa.org

World Bank Group—Data and Research
http://www.worldbank.org/

  • Criminal Justice

U.S. Department of Justice
http://www.usdoj.gov/

  • Education

U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/topics/topicsTier2.jsp?&top=Research+%26+Stats&subtop=Statistics 

  • Economic / Social

Carsey Institute Indicator
http://www.carseyinstitute.unh.edu/indicators2.htm

BestPlaces.net—city info, data, stats
http://www.bestplaces.net

Chicago Pop CenterResearch – Social Demography
http://www.spc.uchicago.edu/orgs/prc 

The Cost of Raising Children
http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/ExpendituresonChildrenbyFamilies.htm

Economic and Social Development Research and analysis
http://www.un.org/esa/research.htm

Population and Household Economic statistical reports listed by topic
http://www.census.gov/population/www/

United Nations Development Program
http://www.undp.org
Provides information about health, poverty, the environment and other world development issues.

  • Employment / Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov

Vermont May 2004 OES State Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates
http://www.bls.gov/oes/2008/may/oes_VT.htm

  • Health

Alan Guttmacher Institute home page(sexual and reproductive health)
http://www.guttmacher.org  

American Association of Suicidology—Dedicated to the understanding and prevention of suicide
http://www.suicidology.org/web/guest/stats-and-tools

WHO Suicide Rates
http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide/suiciderates/en

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Health –United States )http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm

CDC Run your own data (tutorial)
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/tutorials/Nhanes/tutorial_intro.htm

CDC: WISQARS
http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars

CDC: Health United States 2008
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus08.pdf

Dept. of Health
http://healthvermont.gov

Global Health: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/global-health/Pages/overview.aspx

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
http://www.unaids.org

Injury Mortality Reports
http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/mortrate10_sy.html

National Centerfor Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/Nchs

United Nations Development Program
http://www.undp.org
Provides information about health, poverty, the environment and other world development issues.

WHO World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/en

  • Immigration / Refugees

U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
http://www.usdoj.gov/ins/ 

United Nations High Commission on Refugees
http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/homeVermon.gov—health and public safety
http://healthvermont.gov

  • Religion

Religion Statistics and Geography—Church Statistics
http://www.adherents.com

Print Titles in the SMC Library Reference Collection

American Demographics     (1980-2004, bound periodicals)

County and City Databook                                    Reference HA202.A36

County and City Extra:                                          Reference HA203.C68

Demographic Resource Guide                                Reference HA203.D46

Demographic Yearbook (U.N.)                                Reference HA17.D45

Demographics of the U.S.                                       Reference HB849.49.R875

Encyclopedia of Population                                    Reference HB871.E538

Historical Statistics of the States of the U.S.          Reference HA214.D63

Historical Statistics of the United States                Reference HA202.B87

Lifestyle Market Analyst                                         Reference HA203.L54

Sourcebook of County Demographics                    
Reference HA203.S65

State of the World                                                 Reference HC59.S73


Statistical Abstract of the United States (annual)  Reference HA202

Statistical Handbook on Poverty in the Developing World     Reference HC59.72.P6 S73

Statistical Portrait of the United States Social Conditions and Trends    Reference HA214.S84

Statistical Yearbook (United Nations)                      Reference HA12
.5.U63

Vital Signs: the trends that are shaing our future   Reference HC10.V53

World Development Report (annual)                       Reference HC59.7W659

World Economic and Sociall Survey (annual)           Reference HC59.A169

  • Organizations supporting social science research

Institute for Social Research
http://www.isr.umich.edu 

Social Issues Research Centre
http://www.sirc.org/about/about.html