United States Statistics by Topic

• Agriculture
• The Arts
• Banking and Finance
• Business and Industry
• Crime and Criminal Justice
• Economy
• Education
• Energy
• Environment
• Health and Vital Statistics
• Immigration and Aliens
• Income and Spending
• The Internet
• Labor
• Population
• Religion
• Social Security
• Taxes
• Transportation
• Weather and Climate

Agriculture

Agricultural Statistics

This compendium, published annually by the USDA since 1936, is the most comprehensive collection of statistics related to U.S. agriculture. It includes data on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns. Prior to 1936, the information contained in Agricultural Statistics was published in the statistical section of the Yearbook of Agriculture.

Economic Research Service

The Economic Research Service (ERS) provides key indicators, outlook analysis, and a wealth of data on the U.S. food and agricultural system. Along with information on farming practices, structure, and performance, ERS produces data on such diverse topics as farm and rural households, commodity markets, food marketing, agricultural trade, diet and health, food safety, food and nutrition assistance programs, natural resources and the environment, and the rural economy.

National Agricultural Statistics Service

National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) collects, summarizes, analyzes, and publishes agricultural production and marketing data on a wide range of items, including number of farms and land in farms, acreage, yield, production, stocks of grains, and numerous commodities. The Census of Agriculture is conducted every five years to collect information on the number of farms, land use, production expenses, value of land, buildings, and farm products, farm size, characteristics of farm operators, market value of agricultural production sold, acreage of major crops, inventory of livestock and poultry, and farm irrigation practices.

USDA Economics, Statistics and Market Information System

The USDA Economics, Statistics and Market Information System at Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University, contains nearly 2500 reports and datasets from the economics agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics.

The Arts

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on how many people are employed in arts-related industries, how many hours they work, and how much they make.

Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive

CPANDA, the Cultural Policy and the Arts National Data Archive, is the world's first interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States. It's mission is to acquire, archive, document, and preserve high quality data sets on key topics in arts and cultural policy, and make them available in a user-friendly format to scholars, journalists, policy makers, artists, cultural organizations, and the public.

Banking and Finance

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

The FDIC promotes and preserves public confidence in U.S. financial institutions by insuring bank and thrift deposits up to the legal limit of $100,000; by periodically examining state-chartered banks that are not members of the Federal Reserve System for safety and soundness as well as compliance with consumer-protection laws; and by liquidating assets of failed institutions to reimburse the insurance funds for the cost of failures.

FDIC: Industry Analysis

Financial information on specific FDIC-insured commercial banks and savings institutions, as well as analyses of financial, economic, and industry trends as they relate to banking.

FRASER: Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research

The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER) is a data preservation and accessibility project of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRASER’s mission is to safeguard and provide easy access to the nation’s economic history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System—through digitization of documents related to the U.S. financial system. FRASER preserves and provides access to economic and banking data and policy documents. To this end, various types of documents have been digitized, including publications of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, publications of District Federal Reserve Banks, statements and speeches of Fed policymakers, archival materials of Fed policymakers, government data publications, statistical releases, congressional hearings, books, and reports by various organizations.

FRED^®: Federal Reserve Economic Data

Database of more than 41,000 economic time series, managed by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Contents include banking, business, and financial data, consumer price indexes, employment and population data, exchange rates, gross domestic product (GDP), interest rates, monetary aggregates, producer price indexes (PPI), reserves and monetary base, and U.S. trade and international transactions. The time series are compiled by the Federal Reserve and collected from government agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Business and Industry

Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM)

Statistics on employment, payroll, worker hours, payroll supplements, cost of materials, selected operating expenses, value added by manufacturing, capital expenditures, inventories, and energy consumption for all manufacturing establishments with one or more paid employee. Also estimates of value of shipments for over 1,300 classes of manufactured products. The ASM provides key intercensal measures of manufacturing activity, products, and location for the public and private sectors and is the best measure of current U.S. manufacturing industry outputs, inputs, and operating status.

Foreign Trade 

Detailed statistics on goods and estimates of services shipped from the U.S. to foreign countries; also information on export regulations, commodity classifications, and other trade-related topics. Official source for U.S. export and import statistics and regulations governing the reporting of all export shipments from the United States.

FRASER: Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research

The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER) is a data preservation and accessibility project of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRASER’s mission is to safeguard and provide easy access to the nation’s economic history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System—through digitization of documents related to the U.S. financial system. FRASER preserves and provides access to economic and banking data and policy documents. To this end, various types of documents have been digitized, including publications of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, publications of District Federal Reserve Banks, statements and speeches of Fed policymakers, archival materials of Fed policymakers, government data publications, statistical releases, congressional hearings, books, and reports by various organizations.

FRED^®: Federal Reserve Economic Data

Database of more than 41,000 economic time series, managed by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Contents include banking, business, and financial data, consumer price indexes, employment and population data, exchange rates, gross domestic product (GDP), interest rates, monetary aggregates, producer price indexes (PPI), reserves and monetary base, and U.S. trade and international transactions. The time series are compiled by the Federal Reserve and collected from government agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Survey of Current Business

A U.S. Department of Commerce monthly publication that provides data on U.S. business on the regional, national, and international levels. Among statistical series covered are personal income, inventories and sales, national income and product accounts, foreign direct investment in the United States, U.S. direct investment abroad, international transactions, and gross state product.

Thomson ONE Banker (UNT)

Conducts powerful searches against data from multiple databases and displays detailed reports and charts. Search across multiple databases for immediate access to news, quotes, earnings estimates, key financials, ratios, and growth rates for over 65,000 active and inactive global companies. The data is drawn from IBES, Worldscope, SDC, other Thomson databases, and Edgar filings. Save search criteria and results for quick reference. Analyze the performance of companies individually or in the context of peers and industry averages. Obtain more than 200 pre-formatted presentation-ready reports and charts containing financials, earnings ratios, and stock data. View and update graphs and reports as you work, and create custom price charts. You can download (export) fixed fields into Excel, or use the Excel Add-In to pull data from "live" Thomson Analytics databases directly into your Excel spreadsheets.

U.S. Industry and Trade Outlook

Industry-by-industry overview of the U.S. economy provides a comprehensive understanding of the economy and its effects on world trade.

USA Trade Online

Access current and cumulative U.S. export and import data for over 18,000 export commodities and 24,000 import commodities. USA Trade Online provides trade statistics using the Harmonized System (HS) up to the 10-digit level and the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) commodity classification codes up to the 6-digit level. Resource is password-protected and must be used on the Third Floor of Willis Library. Ask for assistance at the Service Desk.

ZIP Code Business Patterns (ZBP)

Data on number of establishments by employment-size classes by detailed industry in the U.S., released annually shortly after the release of County Business Patterns.

Crime and Criminal Justice

See also Immigration/Aliens for crime statistics on foreign nationals

Bureau of Justice Statistics

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating data on crime, criminal offenders, crime victims, and the operations of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to federal, state, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded. The BJS is part of the Office of Justice Programs within the Department of Justice.

Crime in the United States

The most comprehensive analysis of violent crime and property crime in the nation. This annual publication of the FBI compiles volume and rate of crime offenses for the nation, the states, and many cities and counties. It also includes arrest, clearance, and law enforcement employee data. Use the online UCR Data Tool to research crime statistics from as far back as 1960.

FBI - Crime Statistics

Statistical crime reports and publications detailing specific offenses and outlining trends that can help you better understand crime threats both nationally and locally. Includes reports on bank crimes, financial crimes, campus attacks, Internet crimes, mass marketing fraud threats, mortgage frauds, financial institution fraud and failure reports, national drug and gang threat assessments, terrorism incidents, and more.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD)

Over 700 data collections relating to criminal justice. NACJD facilitates and encourages criminal justice research through the preservation and sharing of data resources, and through the provision of training in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data. The following services are available: identification of appropriate criminological and criminal justice data collections on specific topics; custom subsetting of selected data files through an online data analysis system; assistance with the retrieval and use of files obtained from the archive.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics

This Bureau of Justice Statistics publication compiles data from over a hundred sources, from the national to the local level.  Contents include: characteristics of the criminal justice system; public attitudes toward crime topics; nature and distribution of known offenses; characteristics and distribution of persons arrested; judicial processing of defendants; and persons under correctional supervision.

Uniform Crime Reports

The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program was conceived in 1929 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police to meet a need for reliable, uniform crime statistics for the nation. In 1930, the FBI was tasked with collecting, publishing, and archiving those statistics. Today, several annual statistical publications, such as the comprehensive Crime in the United States, are produced from data provided by nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States. Other annual publications, such as Hate Crime Statistics and Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, address specialized facets of crime. Special studies, reports, and monographs prepared using data mined from the UCR’s large database are published each year as well. In addition to these reports, information about the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS), answers to general UCR questions, and answers to specific UCR questions are available on this site.

Economy

Bureau of Economic Analysis

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) produces economic accounts statistics that enable government and business decision-makers, researchers, and the American public to follow and understand the performance of the nation's economy. BEA's national economic statistics provide a comprehensive look at U.S. production, consumption, investment, exports and imports, and income and saving. The international transactions accounts provide information on trade in goods and services (including the balance of payments and trade), investment income, and government and private finances. In addition, the accounts measure the value of U.S. international assets and liabilities and direct investment by multinational companies.

National Bureau of Economic Research

The NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to promoting and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community.

U.S. Census Bureau: Business and Industry

Data from the Economic Census, Economic Indicators, and other economic programs of the Census Bureau.

Dismal Scientist

Comprehensive, up-to-the-minute information on and analysis of the world's economies. Some of its many features: current economic indicators; economic profiles for local areas; forecasts; a stock market valuation calculator.

Economic Indicators

This monthly publication, prepared by the Council of Economic Advisors for the Joint Economic Committee, features charts and tables on total output, income, and spending; employment, unemployment, and wages; production and business activity; prices; money; credit; security markets; federal finance; and selected international statistics

Economic Indicators

The Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) releases monthly and quarterly data on twelve principal federal economic indicators collected by its constituent bureaus: the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The indicators are retail sales; durable goods; construction spending; the current account balance; the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), manufacturers' shipments, inventories, and orders; manufacturing and trade inventories and sales; new home sales; new residential construction; personal income and spending; U.S. trade balance; and wholesale trade. Businesses rely heavily upon these indicators to make decisions every day. A free subscription service is available for those who wish to have specific data e-mailed or faxed to them as soon as the files are released.

FRASER: Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research

The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER) is a data preservation and accessibility project of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. FRASER’s mission is to safeguard and provide easy access to the nation’s economic history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System—through digitization of documents related to the U.S. financial system. FRASER preserves and provides access to economic and banking data and policy documents. To this end, various types of documents have been digitized, including publications of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, publications of District Federal Reserve Banks, statements and speeches of Fed policymakers, archival materials of Fed policymakers, government data publications, statistical releases, congressional hearings, books, and reports by various organizations.

FRED^®: Federal Reserve Economic Data

Database of more than 41,000 economic time series, managed by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Contents include banking, business, and financial data, consumer price indexes, employment and population data, exchange rates, gross domestic product (GDP), interest rates, monetary aggregates, producer price indexes (PPI), reserves and monetary base, and U.S. trade and international transactions. The time series are compiled by the Federal Reserve and collected from government agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Handbook of International Economic Statistics

This CIA publication provides basic worldwide statistics for comparing the economic performance of major countries and regions. It includes numerous footnotes with definitions, exceptions, and methodology; and contains new data entries on direct foreign investment and waste materials recycled.  

Education

National Center for Education Statistics

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education. NCES is located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences. NCES issues numerous publications and datasets each year. These include early releases, issue briefs, statistical reports, directories, and handbooks of standard terminology. Many publications report the findings of specific surveys, but at least three—Digest of Education Statistics, Projections of Education Statistics, and The Condition of Education—cover the field of education statistics from a broad perspective.

Digest of Education Statistics 

This annual publication from the National Center for Education Statistics is the major source for educational statistics. It compiles information on all educational levels from a variety of published and unpublished sources.

The Condition of Education

This annual publication uses tables, charts, and narrative to show educational trends for elementary, secondary, and higher education.

Education Statistics Quarterly 

Comprehensive overview of work done across all of NCES. Each issue includes short publications and summaries covering all NCES publications and data products released in a given time period as well as notices about training and funding opportunities. In addition, each issue includes a featured topic with invited commentary, and a note on the topic from NCES.

Projections of Education Statistics

Projections of statistics for elementary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education. Includes enrollments, graduates, teachers, and expenditures.

School District Demographics System: SDDS

Provides access to school district geographic and demographic data useful for describing and analyzing characteristics of school districts, children, and K–12 education.

Energy

Annual Energy Outlook (EIA)

Forecast and analysis of US energy supply, demand, and prices. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) evaluated a wide range of trends and issues that could have major implication for U.S. energy markets, including energy prices, U.S. economic growth, advances in technologies, changes in weather patterns, and future public policy decisions.

Energy Information Administration

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is responsible for collecting, processing, publishing, and distributing data in the areas of energy resource reserves, energy production, demand, consumption, distribution, and technology. It performs analyses of energy data to assist government and non-governmental users in understanding energy trends.

Economic Research Service

The Economic Research Service (ERS) provides key indicators, outlook analysis, and a wealth of data on the U.S. food and agricultural system. Along with information on farming practices, structure, and performance, ERS produces data on such diverse topics as farm and rural households, commodity markets, food marketing, agricultural trade, diet and health, food safety, food and nutrition assistance programs, natural resources and the environment, and the rural economy.

Environment

Environmental Protection Agency

The EPA is an independent agency created to permit coordinated and effective governmental action on behalf of the environment.

EPA Data Finder

Vast selection of EPA data sources, organized into topics such as air and water that are in easily downloadable formats. For each data source you can see a basic overview, including the geographic scale and other contextual information, then access the data source itself.

Economic Research Service

The Economic Research Service (ERS) provides key indicators, outlook analysis, and a wealth of data on the U.S. food and agricultural system. Along with information on farming practices, structure, and performance, ERS produces data on such diverse topics as farm and rural households, commodity markets, food marketing, agricultural trade, diet and health, food safety, food and nutrition assistance programs, natural resources and the environment, and the rural economy.

NOAAServer

A limited but growing portion of NOAA's environmental data and information is presently available through this system, which links together more than a dozen environmental databases in many organizations in NOAA. Search for environmental information on multiple NOAA computers, retrieve data from NOAA's electronic archives, view graphics, and download or order data

Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Program

Full-text EPA reports submitted by manufacturing facilities regarding estimated releases of toxic chemicals into the environment. data on disposal or other releases of over 650 toxic chemicals from thousands of U.S. facilities and information about how facilities manage those chemicals through recycling, energy recovery, and treatment.

Health and Vital Statistics

National Center for Health Statistics

As the nation's principal health care agency, the National Cdener for Health Statistics (NCHS) compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of of the American people. These health statistics help to document the health status of the population and of important subgroups; identify disparities in health status and use of health care by race or ethnicity, socioeconomic status, region, and other population characteristics; describe experiences with the health care system; monitor trends in health status and health care delivery; identify health problems; support biomedical and health services research; provide information for making changes in public policies and programs; and evaluate the impact of health policies and programs. NCHS is a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention within the Department of Health and Human Services.

CDC WONDER

This online public health information system provides a single point of access to a variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and even numeric public health data. Users can request data for any disease and demographic group by submitting ad hoc queries against available datasets. CDC WONDER also provides free-text search facilities and document retrieval for several important text datasets, including the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) and CDC Prevention Guidelines.

Health, United States 

Annual report on the health status of the nation, submitted by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to the President and Congress. Contains detailed tables and charts on health status and its determinants, health care resources, health care utilization, and health insurance and expenditures. Key resource for health statistics in four major areas: health status and determinants; utilization of health resources; health care resources; and health care expenditures. Statistics cover causes of death, specific diseases, health-related behaviors, and health conditions.

Life Tables

Life tables are used to compare longevity and predict life expectancy for persons in the United States. Data can be sorted by factors such as race, sex, and age.

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: MMWR

Statistics on selected diseases reported to the CDC by state and territorial health departments. Includes reports on infectious and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, natural or human-generated disasters, occupational diseases and injuries, and intentional and unintentional injuries. Each weekly issue also contains short articles on topics of international interest such as specific diseases, chronic conditions, and injuries, as well as notices of events of interest to the public health community.

Monthly Vital Statistics Report

This paper/microfiche publication, which was replaced in 1999 by the online publication National Vital Statistics Reports, provides provisional monthly and cumulative data on births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and infant deaths for States and the United States. Special topic analyses are occasionally included. 

National Vital Statistics Reports

This online publication, which replaced the paper Monthly Vital Statistics Report in 1999, provides monthly provisional statistics on birth, death, marriage, and divorce. Four to six supplements per year report final data for previous year. A supplement is issued for final data on births and another for deaths each year. Detailed reports of births and deaths based on preliminary data are produced biannually. Special topic analyses are issued from time to time.

Vital Statistics of the United States

Annual reports that present detailed vital statistics data, including natality, mortality, marriage and divorce. Technical details about the data are presented in the Technical Appendix section of Vital Statistics of the United States and as a separate document after 1993 for mortality data.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 

The AHRQ, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the lead agency charged with supporting research designed to improve the quality of health care, reduce its cost, and broaden access to essential services.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The CDC, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the federal agency charged with protecting the public health by providing leadership and direction in the prevention and control of diseases and other preventable conditions and responding to public health emergencies.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

CMS, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and formerly known as the Health Care Financing Administration, administers the Medicare, Medicaid, and Child Health Insurance Programs and related quality assurance activities. Their Research, Statistics, Data & Systems page provides statistics related to national health care.

Health and Medical Care Archive

Research data with significant secondary-analytic value for expanding knowledge on, and ultimately contributing to, improvement of the health of people in the United States. The data collections in HMCA include surveys of health care professionals and organizations, investigations of access to medical care, surveys on substance abuse, and evaluations of innovative programs for the delivery of health care. The official data archive of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the largest health care philanthropy organization in the United States.

Health Resources and Services Administration

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated or medically vulnerable. HRSA oversees organ, bone marrow and cord blood donation. It supports programs that prepare against bioterrorism, compensates individuals harmed by vaccination, and maintains databases that protect against health care malpractice and health care waste, fraud and abuse.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive

Provides ready access to substance abuse and mental health research data and promotes the sharing of these data among researchers, academics, policymakers, service providers, and others.

Immigration and Aliens

Office of Immigration Statistics

The Office of Immigration Statistics (OIS) develops, analyzes, and disseminates statistical information needed to inform policy and assess the effects of immigration in the United States. Our goal is to provide high-quality statistical information that is relevant, timely, cost-effective, and customer-oriented.

Foreign Born

Decennial census data, recent estimates, and projections related to legal immigrants, illegal (undocumented) immigrants, and temporary residents such as students and workers on business visas. Also information on emigration from the U.S. and migration between Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland.

Immigration Statistics

This page will help you locate information about foreign nationals who enter or attempt to enter the United States for temporary or permanent residence through a variety of status categories, as well as subsequent actions such as apprehension, removal, or naturalization. The Office of Immigration Statistics periodically publishes reports on these various activities, as information becomes available from the immigration data collection systems. These reports can be accessed by use of the subject-matter choices presented on this page.

Yearbook of Immigration Statistics

Compendium of tables that provides data on foreign nationals who, during a fiscal year, were granted lawful permanent residence (i.e., admitted as immigrants or became legal permanent residents), were admitted into the United States on a temporary basis (e.g., tourists, students, or workers), applied for asylum or refugee status, or were naturalized. The Yearbook also presents data on immigration law enforcement actions, including alien apprehensions, removals, and prosecutions. The Yearbook tables are available in both PDF and Excel formats.

Income and Spending

Bureau of Economic Analysis

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) produces economic accounts statistics that enable government and business decision-makers, researchers, and the American public to follow and understand the performance of the nation's economy. BEA's national economic statistics provide a comprehensive look at U.S. production, consumption, investment, exports and imports, and income and saving. The international transactions accounts provide information on trade in goods and services (including the balance of payments and trade), investment income, and government and private finances. In addition, the accounts measure the value of U.S. international assets and liabilities and direct investment by multinational companies.

Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the principal fact-finding agency of the federal government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. The Bureau is an independent national statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public, Congress, other federal agencies, state and local governments, businesses, and labor. BLS also serves as a statistical resource to the Department of Labor. Data are available relating to employment, unemployment, and other characteristics of the labor force; consumer and producer prices, consumer expenditures, and import and export prices; wages and employee benefits; productivity and technological change; employment projections; occupational illness and injuries; and international comparisons of labor statistics. Most of the data are collected in surveys conducted by the Bureau, the Bureau of the Census (on a contract basis), or on a cooperative basis with state agencies.

Census Bureau

The preeminent collector and provider of timely, relevant, and quality data about the people and economy of the United States. Most of their online data related to income and poverty can be found on the Income and Poverty pages.

State Annual Personal Income

State-by-state estimates of personal income and disposable personal income, including per capita measures and information on the sources of personal income. 

Consumer Expenditure Survey 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey program collects information from the nation's households and families on their buying habits (expenditures), income, and characteristics, allowing data users to relate the expenditures and income of consumers to the characteristics of those consumers.

The Sourcebook of ZIP Code Demographics

Data on population, households, families, income, race, age, and spending potential for various products, arranged by ZIP Code.

State of Care Index^TM (Care.com)

Outlines the annual cost of child care and senior care, details families' efforts to save money on care arrangements, and reports on the tie between employment and caregiving.

Tax Statistics

The Statistics of Income (SOI) program produces data files compiled from tax and information returns filed with the IRS. This page includes these files, arranged by topic, as well as files from other IRS sources. Data sets include information about the financial composition of individuals, business taxpayers, tax exempt organizations, and more.

The Internet

ClickZ Stats

Provides Web marketers with Internet statistics and Web marketing research, enabling them to understand their business environment and make more informed business decisions. 

Internet World Stats

Statistics on world Internet usage, population, travel, and Internet market research data, for over 233 individual countries and world regions. Includes Facebook statistics by country.

Pew Internet & American Life Project

Includes reports and data on the "impact of the Internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life."

Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. The BLS is an independent federal agency that collects data related to employment, unemployment, and other characteristics of the labor force; consumer and producer prices, consumer expenditures, and import and export prices; wages and employee benefits; productivity and technological change; employment projections; occupational illness and injuries; and international comparisons of labor statistics.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Statistics on earnings, number of employees, and hiring trends for selected occupations.

Population

For more sources of population statistics, see the General Compilations.

DataFinder: U.S. and World Data by the Population Reference Bureau

Create custom tables showing multiple locations and indicators of your choice. The U.S. data in PRB's DataFinder are collected from the U.S. Census Bureau's decennial census, American Community Survey, and population estimates, then combined into an easy-to-navigate, one-stop source for U.S. population data. The international data in PRB's DataFinder are from several Population Reference Bureau data sheets. Additional international indicators were compiled by PRB staff, primarily using national surveys.

Census Bureau

The preeminent collector and provider of timely, relevant, and quality data about the people and economy of the United States. See People and Households for Census reports related to specific aspects of population.

Community Information by ZIP Code

Information about ZIP codes and extensive lists of data sorted by ZIP code. Focuses on California and Los Angeles, and the print resources listed are those available at the California State University, Northridge, but site also includes much U.S. data and free, online resources.

The Sourcebook of ZIP Code Demographics

Data on population, households, families, income, race, age, and spending potential for various products, arranged by ZIP Code.

Texas State Data Center

The Texas State Data Center (SDC), in cooperation with a network of affiliates, functions as a focal point for the distribution of Texas demographic, economic, and social statistics produced by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Center also disseminates population estimates and projections for Texas, as well as other information from the federal government, state government, and other sources. The SDC provides training and technical assistance in accessing and using Census Bureau data for research, administration, planning and decision making by local governments, the business community, and other interested data users.

Religion

Association of Religion Data Archives

U.S. and international data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations), and religious attitudes, affiliations, politics, behaviors, experiences, and beliefs. The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. Founded as the American Religion Data Archive in 1997 and going online in 1998, the initial archive was targeted at researchers interested in American religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections and developing features for educators, journalists, religious congregations, and researchers.

American Religious Identification Survey

The ARIS (American Religious Identification Survey) time series tracks changes in the religious loyalties of the American public. It comprises a set of three large replicate, representative, national surveys of adults in the continental United States (48 states and DC) in 1990, 2001, and 2008. They have a common and consistent research design and methodology using random digit dialed telephone  interviews, and the same unprompted, open-ended key question: What is your religion, if any? The value of this unique series of national surveys, which allows scientific monitoring of change over time, has been recognized by the U.S. Bureau of Census. The Census Bureau itself is constitutionally precluded from such an inquiry into religion, and so has incorporated NSRI/ARIS findings into its own official publication the Statistical Abstract of the United States since 2003.

National Congregations Study

The National Congregations Study (NCS) is an ongoing national survey effort to gather information about the basic characteristics of America's congregations. It surveys a representative sample of America's churches, synagogues, mosques, and other local places of worship.

North American Jewish Data Bank

Central repository of social scientific studies of North American Jewry. The Data Bank’s primary functions are to acquire, archive, and disseminate quantitative data sets and reports, both contemporary and historical, and to encourage utilization of the archive through training and to provide information about methods for studying Jewish communities.

Social Security

Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics

The Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics (ORES) is responsible for conducting policy research and evaluation and sponsoring the Retirement Research Consortium; providing statistical data on OASDI and SSI program benefits, payments, covered workers, and other indicators; sponsoring special-purpose survey data collections and studies to improve data for research and statistics related to social security issues; developing links between administrative record data and survey data for use in Social Security research and policy analysis; developing and operating microsimulation models that estimate the distributional effects of proposed changes in Social Security programs; disseminating research and statistical material through print and web publications; and ensuring the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of statistical data and participating in several interagency statistical programs and projects.

Taxes

Tax Statistics

The Statistics of Income (SOI) program produces data files compiled from tax and information returns filed with the IRS. This page includes these files, arranged by topic, as well as files from other IRS sources. Data sets include information about the financial composition of individuals, business taxpayers, tax exempt organizations, and more.

State Government Tax Collections

Summary information from the Census Bureau on tax revenues of the 50 state governments and the District of Columbia. Includes data by state as well as rankings of states.

Quarterly Summary of State and Local Tax Revenue

Quarterly estimates of state and local tax revenue and selected tax revenue data for states. This quarterly survey has been conducted continuously since 1962. This Census Bureau site contains the most current information available on a nationwide basis for government tax collections.

Transportation

Weather and Climate

Works listed here contain archival data describing past weather and climate conditions in the United States. For forecasts and descriptions of current weather conditions, see The Weather Channel® or Intellicast.com.

Climatological Data

The major source for daily weather data in the U.S. Each issue contains monthly totals and averages and daily temperature and precipitation data for most of the weather stations in the state. Some stations provide daily snowfall, snow depth, evaporation, and soil temperature data. Each issue also contains monthly summaries for heating and cooling degree days. The July issue also contains monthly heating degree days and snow data for the preceding July through June. The annual issue contains monthly and annual averages of temperature, precipitation, temperature extremes, freeze data, soil temperatures, evaporation, and a recap of monthly cooling degree days.

Daily Weather Maps

Weekly publication provides a page of charts for each day of the week, summarizing the positions, development, and movements of weather systems across the continental United States from 2003 to the present. The charts include the Surface Weather Map, the 500-Millibar Height Contours chart, the Highest and Lowest Temperatures chart, and the Precipitation Areas and Amounts chart. NOAA also provides historical daily weather maps from 1871 to 2002.

Hourly Precipitation Data

Hourly precipitation amounts obtained from recording rain gauges located at National Weather Service, Federal Aviation Administration, and cooperative observer stations. Published data are displayed in inches to tenths or inches to hundredths at local standard time. HPD includes maximum precipitation for nine (9) time periods from 15 minutes to 24 hours, for selected stations.

Local Climatological Data

Monthly summary from major airport weather stations that includes a daily account of temperature extremes, degree days, precipitation and winds. Also included are the hourly precipitation and abbreviated 3-hourly weather observations.

National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)

This agency of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is the world's largest active archive of weather data. NCDC produces numerous climate publications and responds to data requests from all over the world.

National Weather Service (NWS)

This agency of the U.S National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides weather and flood warnings, public forecasts, and advisories for all of the United States, its territories, adjacent waters and ocean areas, primarily for the protection of life and property. The site includes current weather information and forecasts; historical climatic data archives; weather-related news; and other information.

NOAA Climate Data Online

This Web site links to several NOAA locations that provide climatic data and historical data records.

NOAAServer

The NOAAServer System links together more than a dozen environmental databases in many organizations in NOAA. Participating organizations include elements of all the NOAA five Line Offices. A limited but growing portion of NOAA's environmental data and information is presently available through this system.

Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin

Weekly publication of the National Weather Service and the National Agricultural Statistics Service provides a summary of the week's weather in the United States, with an emphasis on its effect on crops.