Statistical Resources on the Web
Sociology
Frames Index |
No-Frames Version
Last updated on February 27,
2008
United States
- Annual
Review of Sociology
- Searchable abstracts of the periodical since 1984
- Abstracts may indicate availability of data in the full text
- The last 10 years of the paper copy are located in Graduate Library
Reference: HM 1. A625
- Assessing the New
Federalism
- State data base includes statistics and law tracking for the 50
states and D.C.
- Fiscal, economic, demographic data
- Information about income security, health, employment, housing, and
child welfare programs
- EXAMPLE: State Data Base - Use Online - Begin -
Health Insurance/Proceed - Minimum Group Size/Proceed - All Years - for
state laws on minimum size of group health insurance coverage
- Similar procedure for data on food stamps and AFDC caseloads
- Includes articles on state social service policies
- Best
Places to Live (Money Magazine)
- Ranks 300 cities to live by economy, health, crime,
housing, education, weather,leisure, transit, arts
- Arranged by ranking and alphabetically by city
- City pages include a description and relocation information as well
as statistical data on the quality of life and the cost of living
- Interactive interface permits the user to create own
rankings
- Computer-Assisted
Survey (UC-Berkeley)
- Data sets from the 1972-94 General Social Survey,
1972-96
National Election Survey, and 1991 National Health
Interview Survey
- Data may be manipulated on-line
- Quick start instructions for the initiate:
- Choose Demonstration Survey Data Archive
- Choose the survey you would like and the "browse"
option; start
- Choose "Alphabetical Variable List"
- Choose your variables and write down their corresponding code names
- Go back to the original screen and choose "run crosstabulations;" start
- Imagine the output as a spreadsheet and type in the desired vertical
and horizontal code names; also choose output as statistics or
percentages
- Example of General Social Survey
- Percentage of Protestants who
strongly agree with death penalty
- In "run crosstabulations," type in "deathpen" as vertical
and "relig" as horizontal; check off percentaging as vertical;
run the table
- Example of American National
Election Studies
- Data on the
Net (UC-San Diego)
- Searchable and browsable data base of approximately 800 numeric data
sites, data archives, catalogs, and commercial vendor web sites
- All entries are annotated and provide direct links to the web
site
- Demography and Housing (UMich)
- 2000 and 1990 U.S. Census data on population characteristics and housing
- Census mapping; Census updates
- Population studies centers; indexes to demographic articles and reports
- International population data
- FedStats
- Comprehensive listing to statistical programs of over 70 federal
government agencies
- Arranged by agency or program; includes explanatory material and contacts
- Search engine indexes individual statistical tables
by keyword or agency and provides direct connection
- General
Social Survey (ICPSR, NORC, UC-Berkeley)
- Annual survey since 1972 of public opinion and lifestyle
- Covers poverty, religion, contraceptive use, opinion on foreign affairs
- ICPSR site provides background on survey as well as printed
publications resulting from the survey
- Primary data extraction available from ICPSR and UC-Berkeley
- Computer-Assisted
Survey (UC-Berkeley)
- Data may be manipulated on-line
- Quick start instructions for the initiate:
- Choose Demonstration Survey Data Archive
- Choose the survey you would like and the "browse"
option; start
- Choose "Alphabetical Variable List"
- Choose your variables and write down their corresponding code names
- Go back to the original screen and choose "run crosstabulations;" start
- Imagine the output as a spreadsheet and type in the desired vertical
and horizontal code names; also choose output as statistics or
percentages
- Example of General Social Survey
- Percentage of Protestants who
strongly agree with death penalty
- In "run crosstabulations," type in "deathpen" as vertical
and "relig" as horizontal; check off percentaging as vertical;
run the table
- Example of American National
Election Studies
- Institute
for Innovation in Social Policy
- The Index of Social Health measures U.S. socio-economic and
health statistics, poverty, suicide, health
insurance coverage, over time
- A separate arts and culture index provides data on adult and child
participation in reading, theater, and related arts
- Inter-University Consortium
for Political & Social Research
- Catalog and index to ICPSR's archival holdings of demographic,
economic, health, and political machine readable data tapes
- National
Archive of Computerized Data on Aging is publicly accessible
but must be manipulated by user
- National Archive of
Criminal Justice provides user-friendly data manipulation
- Choose Data Analysis System
- Choose the survey you would like and the
"browse" option; start
- Choose "Alphabetical Variable List"
- Choose your variables and write down their corresponding code names
- Go back to the original screen and choose "run crosstabulations;" start
- Imagine the output as a spreadsheet and type in the desired vertical
and horizontal code names; also choose output as statistics or
percentages
- Example of National Household Drug Survey
- Time since last alcoholic beverage by 11 age groups
- In "run crosstabulations," type in "agecat3" as
vertical and "al03" as horizontal; check off percentaging as horizontal;
run the table
- Murray
Research Center
- Data base of 200 sociological surveys spanning the human lifetime
- Ranges from causes of juvenile delinquency to participation in the
women's movement to mental health over generations
- Approximately one third of the files have abstracts which provide
methodology, data, and a bibliography of related studies
- Older
Americans 2000:Key Indicators of Well-Being
- Tables on population, economics, health status, health risks, and
health care for persons 65+ on a national level
- Most data is mid-1990s with some historical figures back to 1950
- Charts supplemented by spreadsheets in HTML and Excel format
- Sociometrics
- Catalog of data archives on sociology, psychology, health, education,
disability, American family, and the elderly
- Web links to Internet sources of sociological data
- The University of Michigan's membership includes access to 300 data
sets, which may be downloaded on the web or extracted using the
CD-ROMS at the Social Work Library
- State of the Nation's
Cities (Rutgers)
- Nearly 15,000 demographic, employment, housing, income, poverty,
health, social, and environmental indicators for 77 American cities
- Data is compressed and can be downloaded for a DOS-based or MacIntosh
system
- Files can be opened in Excel, dbase IV, LOTUS, and SAS
formats
- Technical Documentation
- Data
Dictionary with list of variables
- HUD
User provides the textual report and graphs
- Statistical
Abstract of the United States
- Compendium of government and non-government statistics, primarily on
the national and state levels
- Population and vital statistics, health, economics, education,
manufacturing, natural resources, transportation, and U.S. Industrial
Outlook (production and foreign trade by four-digit SIC for past six years)
- Full text available in Adobe Acrobat format
- State rankings and state/county profiles in HTML format
- The full text of Statistical Abstract is available in most University
of Michigan campus libraries as HA 202
- Statistical
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974;
business, association and state government data since 1980, and
international agencies since 1983
- Access through the Statistical Sources menu
- Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity
indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign
country, by age, by disease)
- Sample Search: population projections and by
city
- About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
- For items not hot-linked:
- Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to
the Documents Center for the microfiche version
- Consult Statistical Universe
Guide for various web searching alternatives
and a Slide
Show for further details
- Thematic
Maps (Census Bureau)
- Create maps at the state to census block group level for the 1990
and 2000 Summary Files 1 and 3
- Includes selected variables such as population density, ancestry,
income, poverty
- Map output in gif format only
- USA
Counties, 1998 (Census Bureau)
- Population and housing variables (age, ancestry, race, education,
income, and poverty for each county in the nation with some updates from
the Current Population Survey
- 1997 economic census data (manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail
trade, service industries) as well as government employment and finance
- Non-Census data includes federal funds, current employment data from
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, crime, election data through 1996, health,
Social
Security beneficiaries, and vital statistics (births, marriages, deaths
- Data may be retrieved for an individual county only
International
- Annual
Review of Sociology
- Searchable abstracts of the periodical since 1984
- Abstracts may indicate availability of data in the full text
- The last 10 years of the paper copy are located in Graduate Library
Reference: HM 1. A625
- Camena
Country Profiles (IFC)
- Economic and social indicators for countries in the Middle East,
North Africa, and Central Asia
- Includes GDP and GNP, poverty rates, illiteracy, and child
malnutrition
- Demography and Housing (UMich)
- 2000 and 1990 U.S. Census data on population characteristics and housing
- Census mapping; Census updates
- Population studies centers; indexes to demographic articles and reports
- International population data
- Global
Urban Indicators Database (UN Center for Human Settlements)
- Detailed socioeconomic indicators for 237 cities in 110 countries,,
mostly in the Third World
- Data includes poverty level and percent in poverty, family income
distribution, per capital gross city product (under health), size of
school classrooms, per capita murder rates, home ownership,
land use
- Data in pdf and text formats
- Works with Internet Explorer only
- Human
Development
Index
- Ranks countries by life expectancy, literacy, education and GDP
- Compares women's rankings with men's
- Human
Development Report (UNDP)
- Web version summarizes regional and country statistics on economic,
social, and educational development
- Each annual version focuses on an individual topic
- 1995 issue addressed gender equality
- 1997 issue carried poverty statistics by country with additional data
on life expectancy, literacy, and per capita gross domestic product
- 1998 issue carries a human development index (life expectancy,
literacy, education and GDP) with data by sex and women in managerial or
parliamentay positions
- 1999 covers globalization and the quality of life
- Paper copy (Doc. Cen. HD 72 .H92) carries murder, rape, drug crime, and
prisoner statistics for
selected industrialized countries appear in the statistical appendix
- Info
Nation (UN)
- Current statistics on 185 countries
- Thirty-seven variables include: population, life expectancy,
fertility, school enrollment, illiteracy, homicides, motor vehicles, GDP
and labor force
- Carbon dioxide emissions, threatened species, and energy consumption
are among the environmental data
- Separate section on Twenty-One
Cities of the World focuses on population and
environment
- International
Population Data Base (Census Bureau)
- Summary vital statistics data for all countries, 1996 and 2000 as
well as mid-year estimates, 1950-2020
- Additional data on marital status, ethnic origin, religion,
literacy, labor force, income and poverty
- Data may be downloaded directly or viewed via a spreadsheet
- Display
Mode provides a user-friendly pull-down menu for viewing on
the screen
- Inter-University Consortium
for Political & Social Research
- Catalog and index to ICPSR's archival holdings of demographic,
economic, health, and political machine readable data tapes
- As of May 1996, free web access is being planned for crime and aging data
- Links to U.S., international, and foreign data archives
- Organizational information about ICPSR and its summer
institutes
- Poverty Net
Data (World Bank)
- Numerous studies and reports on poverty
- Links to wealth as measured by the Gini coefficient
- PRAXIS
(UPenn)
- Links to international governmental and non-governmental, regional,
and social work organizations
- Links to social and economic development web sites arranged by
subject (e.g. population, housing, culture, employment) as well as social
services available
- Reference tools for social workers in the field of
international development, including maps, flags, contacts, and
travel information
- Statistical data among the links
- Social
Indicators (United Nations)
- Brief country data on youth and the elderly, cities, housing, water
supply, income, health, education, literacy and unemployment
- Statistical
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974;
business, association and state government data since 1980, and
international agencies since 1983
- Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity
indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign
country, by age, by disease)
- Sample Search: population projections and by
city
- About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
- For items not hot-linked:
- Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to
the Documents Center for the microfiche version
- Consult Statistical Universe
Guide for various web searching alternatives
and a Slide
Show for further details
- World Values
Survey
- Comprehensive surveys of the six continents conducted since 1981
- Measures social values (e.g. religion, democracy, respect for
authority, sense of well-being, politics, leisure
- Web site has sample questionnaires, summary results, and articles
issued as a result of the survey
- World's
Women:
2000
- Country data on women's education, employment, mortality, AIDS, and
marital status
- International
Year of Older Persons
- The UN has declared 1999 as the International Year of Older Persons
- Web site delineates conceptual and implementation principles
- Planned activities of international inter-governmental and
non-governmental organizations
- Suggestions for national activities
- Brief statistics on the world's older population
- National Aging Information
Center
- Statistical profiles of the aging population, projections, and health
trends
- Links to statistical reports from other federal agencies, including
the Census Bureau, on aging
- National Archive
of Computerized Data on Aging (ICPSR/National Institute on
Aging)
- Original survey data on aging since the 1950s for manipulation with
SAS or SPSS and their corresponding codebooks
- Subjects include health, race, socioeconomic characteristics and
attitudes for the United States and other countries
- Files in compressed and uncompressed format
- Most require ICPSR institutional membership to access but selected
files are available to the public
- Social
Security Administration
- Facts and Figures on Social Security, SSI Recipients by State and
County, World Social Security Programs, data on the aged
- Files in ASCII, GIF, or PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format
- Statistical
Information on Aging (AOA)
- Current profile of aging population (demographic
characteristics, health, income)
- Population projections to 2050
- Estimates of state population, 60+
- Annotated links to Administration on Aging and other
federal sources of statistical information
- See also Domestic
Violence
- Child Care
Data (DHHS)
- Summary statistics and charts on the demographics and economics
of child care
- Additional data on child care employment and salaries, arrangements
for school age children, and the quality of child care for young
children
- Kids
Count
- State and national data on child poverty, children living with
working parents, salaries of child care workers, immunizations
- State rankings on childhood death, crime, and poverty since 1985
- Similar data for large metropolitan areas
- State
Child Care Information
- Child care license information by state
- Licensed child care facilities and workers by state
- Federal and state funding for child care
- Child
Support (Census Bureau)
- Selected tables since 1994 on child support received and not paid by
gender, race, and education of custodial parent
- HTML and pdf formats
- Administration for
Children and Families (U.S.)
- ACF in the News includes press releases on
child abuse, welfare, and child support
- By
the Sweat and Toil of Children (Labor Dept.)
- Initiatives to eliminate child labor internationally
- Includes country statistics on child labor and an evaluation of
sources
- Census
Bureau
- Guide to Census Bureau statistics on children
- Child
Development Supplement (UMich Survey Research Center)
- Special surveys of mental and health development of children, 0-12
- Studies on the use of time by children and their parents
- Bibliography of reports, some on the web
- Additional data files in compressed format include caregivers,
fathers, children, and teachers' time use
- Supplements the Panel Study on Income Dynamics
- Child
Welfare Outcomes (DHHS)
- Detailed state data on children who have come in contact with the
child welfare system
- Child maltreatment data by child's age, race, and type of maltreatment
- Children in foster care
- Children adopted by age or race
- Outcomes data is not consistently reported but may include reduction
in adoption time, permanence of foster care, reduction in the
recurring abuse
- Children
in the States (Children's Defense Fund)
- National and state data on demographic and economic characteristics
- Child abuse, welfare payments, poverty, health problems, child care,
homicides, suicides, and teen birth rate
- Childstats
- Federal inter-agency web site about statistics on children
- Key indicators of child well-being (population, economic, health,
substance abuse, blood lead)
- Special topics, such as fatherhood data
- List of government contacts by subject and agency
- Grandparents
and Grandchildren (Census Bureau)
- National data on households headed by grandparents with
and without the presence of parents
- Characteristics of grandparents include age, education, race, income,
poverty and employment
- Data for 1970, 1980, 1990 and 1997
- Percent of households headed by grandparents for states, 1990
- Statistical tables, working papers, and pdf report
and pdf report - Kids
Count
- State and national data on child poverty, children living with
working parents, salaries of child care workers, immunizations
- State rankings on childhood death, crime, and poverty since 1985
- Similar data for large metropolitan areas
- Kids These
Days (Public Agenda)
- Public opinion poll on adult attitudes toward children
- 1999 survey shows disappointment with youth values
- Teens are optimistic
- Report includes graphs and explanatory material
- Progress of Nations
(UNICEF)
- Annual report with country statistics on social indicators for women
and children
- Each issue has slightly different focus
- Progress of Nations,
2000
- Focus on health issues and AIDS
- Last of the series
- Progress of Nations,
1999
- Features a new Child Risk Measure based on
mortality, malnutrition, war, schooling, and AIDS with country rankings
- Focus of this issue on external debt and its affect on children
- Progress of Nations,
1998
- Focus on the civil rights of children
- Data on birth registration, teen pregnancy, AIDS, health and
education benefits
- Progress of Nations,
1997
- Primary emphasis on water and sanitation
- Country data on access to sanitation, fertility and mortality,
nutrition, AIDS, and per capita GNP
- Progress of Nations,
1996
- Emphasis on the condition of women
- Country statistics on children include age, mortality rate,
nutrition, immunization, and education
- Maternal mortality rates and female mutilation cases by
country
- State of the
World's Children (UNICEF)
- Annual report with different emphasis each year
- State of
the World's Children - 2005
- State of the World's
Children - 2004
- State of the World's
Children - 2003
- Children's opinions matter
- State of the World's
Children - 2002
- Review of progress and lack thereof since the World Children's Summit
of 1990
- Need for leadership
- State of the World's
Children - 2001
- Focus on birth through age 3
- State of the World's
Children - 2000
- Calls for leadership in resolving children's problems
- Country data on births, deaths, nutrition, health, education,
demography, economics, women, and rates of progress
- State of the World's
Children - 1999
- Focus on education and illiteracy
- Country data on both topics, demographics, economics and health
- PDF and gopher (plain text) versions
- State of the World's
Children - 1998
- Country data on child nutrition for developed and developing countries
- Additional country data on demographics, economics, and the status of
women
- State of the World's
Children - 1997
- Short reports with brief statistics on child labor
- State of
the World's Children - 1996
- Country statistics on child vital statistics, health, education, and
economics, 1960+
- Available in several formats and also downloadable
- Trends in the
Well-Being of America's Children and Youth (DHHS)
- National data on child population, economics and poverty, behavior,
health, and education
- Text with some graphs dating back to 1950
- Adobe Acrobat format only
- Youth Indicators, 1996
- Demographics, home environment, after-school activites,
values, and academic achievement of youth
- 1993
edition
- See also Children's
Health Insurance Program and Television Watching
- American Indians
and Crime (BJS)
- Victims and perpetrators of crime by race
- Data on circumstances and types of crime
- Concludes American Indian crime is more than twice the rate of the
remainder of the population
- Also in Adobe Acrobat
format
- Arson
and Explosives
National Repository (ATF)
- Arson and bombing incidents by type since 1991 for the nation and
state
- Includes targets, injuries and fatalities
- Church bombings beginning 1996 on a national level and
characteristics of perpetrators
- Bureau of
Prisons
- Data on federal prisoners by demographic characteristics, crime, and
type of security
- Prison personnel
- Directory of federal prisons
- Capital Punishment
- Broken System: Error Rates in
Capital
Cases
- Report issued by the Columbia University Justice Project on June 12
- Known as the Liebman Study
- Shows that 68% of death penalty verdicts were thrown out when appealed
- 7% of cases were let go
- Predominant cause is poor defense lawyers
- Rates states on death penalty errors
- Capital
Punishment Statistics (BJS)
- National data on executions since 1930 and current prisoners on
death row
- State by state executions for last 30 years and state law
- Race and sex data, reasons for execution
- Various formats: text, pdf, and spreadsheet
- Death
Penalty Information Center
- Executives by method and by state
- Laws of individual states and the number of people on death row by
race and gender
- Names of people executed since 1976
- Data on special topics: women, juveniles, the mentally retarded,
costs, race, and innocence
- Sourcebook of
Criminal Justice Statistics
- Prisoners on death row and prisoners released from death row
- Capital punishment data since 1930 by race, crime, and jurisdiction
(federal and state)
- Methods of capital punishment by state
- Information in Adobe Acrobat format
- Carjackings in the
United States (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
- Data on carjackings, 1992-96
- Includes characteristics of victims, how they defended selves,
time of day, and whether vehicle recovered
- Characteristics of carjacker and means used
- College and
University Campus Crime Statistics (Campus
Safety)
- Campus crime by type of crime and university
- FBI and Chronicle of Higher Education are among sources
- Links to individual campus police web sites
- Correctional
Populations of the United States, 1998 (BJS)
- Prisoners sentenced by federal, state and local courts by age, sex,
race or type of crime
- Probation, parole, death penalty, and military corrections data
- Adobe Acrobat format with supporting spreadsheets in wk1
- Crime and Victims
(BJS)
- National rates of criminal victimization with current trends by
victim characteristics and type of crime
- Tables, texts and graphs in various formats
- Criminal
Justice Abstracts (UMich Only)
- Indexes books, articles, and dissertations on crime and criminal justice
- Coverage since 1968 in Western European languages
- Searchable by
author, title, keyword, date, and language.
- Lengthy astracts summarize the articles and may include some
statistics
- Drugs
and Crime Facts (BJS)
- Data on drug use and circumstances behind a crime, drug use among
inmates, and public opinion
- Provides data and links to the full text of other Bureau of Justice
statistics reports
- FBI
Trac (Syracuse University)
- Historical and current data on FBI operations (personnel, referrals,
convictions, length of prison sentence)
- Requires free registration
- Federal Justice
Statistics Resource Center (Urban Institute)
- Interactive database for manipulating data on suspects and defendants
in federal criminal justice cases
- Use data dictionary to determine court characteristics, stage in
criminal process, and type of offense
- May require time to understand program
- Gun Crime in
the Age Group 18-20 (Treasury, Justice)
- Short pdf report on gun possession, violent and non-violent crimes,
time-to-crime, and illegal weapons by juveniles 18-20
- Time series data and data for selected cities
- Hate
Crime Statistics (FBI)
- National data on hate crimes by motivation, type of offense,
perpetrator, and victim
- Includes total number of incidents by state
- A microfiche version of the same title also provides
city data and is located in the Documents Center as
ASI Microfiche 6224-9
- Homicide
and Suicide Rates Associated with the Implementation of
the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention
Act
- Requires free guest registration
- Article appearing in the Journal of the American Medical
Association (August 2, 2000)
- Compares the 32 states which implemented a waiting period to purchase
a gun versus those who had implemented a waiting period
prior to 1994
- Authors conclude that the Brady Law had no effect in curbing homicide
or suicide, except for the suicide of people 55+
- Homicide and suicide rates were already declining
- Human
Development Report (UNDP)
- Paper copy carries murder, rape, drug crime, and prisoner statistics for
selected industrialized countries appear in the statistical appendix
- Paper copy located in the Documents Center as HD 72 .H92
- Internet Crime
Complaint Center
- National and state data since 2001 on internet crime
- Includes number of cases, amount of money lost, characteristics of
the perpetrator and
victim
- Infanticide
(Bureau of Justice Statistics)
- Brief data on infanticide (children under 5) by race of the victim
and perpetrator (mother, father, boyfriend, etc)
- Justice
Department Crime Statistics
- Crime, firearms, courts, prisoners, and victimization
- Describes on-line services and files available for ftp from the
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- Juvenile Crime Debate Topic, 1996/97
- Background papers by the National Center for Policy Analysis
- Replete with statistics on types of crime and juvenile justice
issues
- National Archive of
Criminal Justice provides user-friendly data manipulation
- Choose Data Analysis System
- Choose the survey you would like and the
"browse" option; start
- Choose "Alphabetical Variable List"
- Choose your variables and write down their corresponding code names
- Go back to the original screen and choose "run crosstabulations;" start
- Imagine the output as a spreadsheet and type in the desired vertical
and horizontal code names; also choose output as statistics or
percentages
- Example of National Household Drug Survey
- Time since last alcoholic beverage by 11 age groups
- In "run crosstabulations," type in "agecat3" as
vertical and "al03" as horizontal; check off percentaging as horizontal;
run the table
- National
Instant Criminal Background Check System (FBI)
- Laws and regulations regarding background checks for gun purchases
(Brady Bill)
- Statistics on gun permits denied
- Link to state laws on background checks
- National Criminal Justice
Reference Service
- Full text or summaries of federal, state, and local reports on crime,
courts, law enforcement, juvenile justice, and the victims of crime
- Statistics included in the reports although there are few statistical
tables
- NCJRS
Abstracts Database
- Indexes thousands of books, journal articles, and government reports
- Provides lengthy summaries
- Searchable by keyword (eg. domestic violence and workplace)
- Virtual
Library is a separate full-text data base
- National Victim
Center
- Criminal victimization, its cost, offender characteristics,
terrorisim, and long term effects on victim
- Similar data by type of crime: domestic violence, child abuse, elder
abuse, hate crimes, workplace crimes
- Data taken from various U.S. government agencies
- Not
Part
of My Sentence (Amnesty USA)
- Statistics on abuse of incarcerated women in the United States
-
Police Brutality (Human Rights Watch)
- Descriptive report of policy brutality incidents in 12 cities:
Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Los Angeles,
Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Portland,
Providence, San Francisco and Washington D.C.
- Text includes data on the number of complaints, lawsuits, and
financial consequences
- Sourcebook of
Criminal Justice Statistics
- Detailed statistics on criminal offenses and arrests, the criminal
justice system, judicial processing of offenders, and corrections
- Most data is available at a national level only
- Each chapter has a table of contents but is also searchable
- Data appears solely in Adobe Acrobat
- State and Federal
Corrections Information Systems (BJS)
- Report analyzing government capability for monitoring prisoners and
parolees
- Outlines types of data collected
- Does not identify individual states collecting the data
- Adobe Acrobat and spreadsheet formats
- State
and Metropolitan Area Data Book (Census Bureau)
- Updates 1990 Census on state and metropolitan area with data on
various population and housing characteristics.
- Includes data from non-Census sources, including medicaid, crime,
energy, schools, motor vehicles
- Entire file is approximately 3 MB in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format
- HTML files provide state and metropolitan area rankings on
population, births and deaths, housing starts, crime, energy, and
government grants
- Status
Report on Youth Curfews in America's Cities (US Conference of
Mayors)
- Survey of 347 cities with youth curfews, conducted in 1997
- Lists name of city, type of curfew, and effectiveness in reducing
crime
- Uniform Crime
Reports, 1995+ (FBI)
- Full text of national, state, and place (10,000+ population) in Adobe
Acrobat format
- Preliminary data for the nation and places of 100,000 or more in text
(ASCII) format
- The FBI has mounted a web version of its publication since 1995
at http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm
- Survey of the
Federal Death Penalty System (Dept. of Justice)
- Review decision to seek the death penalty in federal courts, 1988-2000
- Statistics on Justice Dept. attorneys to seek death penalty by race
of defendant and U.S. Attorney District
- Uniform
Crime Reports, 1990-2002 (UVa)
- County level data on arrests and reported crimes by type of crime
- Arrests includes total, adult, and juvenile
- United States
Crime Statistics (Disaster Center)
- Annual data, 1960-97, on types of crime for the U.S. and individual
states
- Columns include population, violent and property totals, murder,
rape, assault, robbery, burglary, larceny, and vehicle theft
- Separate tables on the crime index
- Use of Force by
Police (BJS)
- Six short chapters describe what is known and unknown about the use
of police force
- Some statistics on the rate and circumstances appear in Chapter 3
- Text and pdf formats
- Violence Policy
Center
- Fact sheets on firearm violence and manufacturing
- Includes firearms production in U.S. since 1899
- Deaths from firearms by demographic characteristics and type
(unintentional, suicide, homicide)
- Bibliographies and summaries of policy issues
- Web of
Justice
- Links to federal circuit and district court web sites as well as
state courts
- Foreign national and city police and justice web sites arranged by
country
- Extensive links to types of crime (fraud, computer, drugs, gangs) as
well as corrections
- Some links provide statistical data
- Workplace Crime
- Workplace Crime
(BJS)
- Detailed national summary of workplace crime by occupation, type of
workplace, type of violence, perpetrator and victim characteristics
- ASCII and pdf formats with link to ICPSR codebooks and data
- Workplace
Violence (OSHA)
- Summary data on workplace violence included in reports
- Web site primarily for counteracting workplace violence
-
Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General
(2001)
- Report commissioned after the Columbine shooting
- Notes various causes for youth violence and effective
intervention
techniques
- Web site includes an executive summary, full report, and
Webcast of
an interview
- Youth Crime
Gun Interdiction Initiative (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms)
- Data on youth and adult use of guns in committing crimes for 27
cities, including Detroit
- Age of person, type of gun, type of crime, how obtained weapon
- Separate reports for each city in Adobe Acrobat
- Issued February 1999
- See also School Violence
- Global
Urban Indicators Database (UN Center for Human Settlements)
- Detailed socioeconomic indicators for 237 cities in 110 countries,,
mostly in the Third World
- Data includes poverty level and percent in poverty, family income
distribution, per capital gross city product (under health), size of
school classrooms, per capita murder rates, home ownership,
land use
- Data in pdf and text formats
- NationMaster
- Create graphs, maps, and country rankings for a very broad range of
social, economic and cultural statistics
- Subjects include individual crimes, currency, sports, religion,
transportation, electoral system, budget, trade balance, health,
education, economics, marriage rate
- Countries may be ranked by region as well as worldwide from the top
100 to the bottom 5
- Sample: Papua-New Guinea has one of the lowest crime rates in the
world while Saudi Arabia has the largest car theft rate in the Middle
East
- Organized
Crime and Corruption Bibliographic Database (Nathanson Center/York
University)
- Bibliographic data base of books, articles, and some web documents on
organized crime
- International in scope
- Includes numerous abstracts
- United Nations Interregional
Crime and Justice Research Institute
- Bibliographic data base of crime around the world
- Directory of criminological resources in 70 countries
- Publications is basically a directory of
print material but includes selected digital publications with
statistical data, such as criminal victimization by type of
crime in developing countries
- United Nations World
Crime Survey
- Data from the 1st-5th World Crime Surveys, 1970-94, downloaded in
zipped format
- ASCII, Lotus, or SPSS options
- Crime
by Country, 1990 is available in eye-legible format
- World Factbook of
Criminal Justice Systems (U.S. Justice Dept.)
- Criminal justice in individual countries throughout the world
- Includes classification of crimes, some crime statistics, reporting
structures, and laws
- Most recent data is 1993
- World
Prison Brief
(International Centre of Prison Studies)
- Number of prisons, prisoners, prison rates, percent female or foreign
prisons
- Data for individual countries
- Access by clicking on the Highest to Lowest link
- Printed sources include
International Crime
Statistics by the International Criminal Polic Organization
(Doc. Cen. HV 6208 .I57) and George Kurian's Illustrated Book
of World Rankings (Ref. Desk HA 155 .K871 1997)
- Bureau of
Justice Statistics
- Detailed press releases of the most recent criminal victimization
statistics
- Domestic
Violence Against Women and Girls (UNICEF, 2000)
- Brief statistics on domestic violence by selected countries
- Includes types of violence: selected abortions, beatings, genital
mutilation, incest
- Causes and health effects
- Legal solutions and nations which have introduced laws on violence
- Report is 424 K in pdf format; web site includes press release
- Full
Report of the Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against
Women (pdf)
- Findings from the National Violence Against Women Survey and dated
November 2000
- Charts and tables on violence against both women and men by type of
violence, race, and age
- Shows almost half of children have been assaulted by an adult caregiver
- Victimization rate higher among men but consequences greater for women
- Intimate Partner
Violence (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
- Assaults by former spouses, current boyfriends and girlfriends, 1993-98
- Breakdown by type of violence (including murder), race, sex, marital
status, children in household, policy reporting
- PDF report with zipped data and codebooks
- Men
and Domestic Violence Index (WWW Virtual Library)
- Extracts of articles, newspaper reports. and Justice Department
studies on abuse and murder of men by women
- Many articles contributed by men via email
- National
Elder Abuse Incidence Study (AOA)
- Text and data on incidence of elder abuse, neglect and
self-neglect
- Report released in 1998; national data only
- World
Culture Report (UNESCO)
- Statistical tables provide data for individual countries on cultural
matters
- Books and newspapers, radios and TV, leading musical artists (e.g.
U2 in Ireland), language, three most frequent religions
- Cultural sites visited, tourism, cellphones and personal computers,
tourism
- Income, human rights laws, social security
- Also available in paper copy in the Documents Center as CB 430 .W78
- American Factfinder
- The most detailed ancestry data from the national to Census tract
level
- Use Data Sets and 2000 Census Summary File 4
- Ancestry of the
Population of the United States - 1990 (UC-Berkeley)
- National and state 1990 census data on detailed population ancestry
(e.g. Arab, Egyptian, Bulgarian, Latvian, Maltese)
- Cross variables include age, sex, housing, social and economic
characteristics, citizenship, nativity (foreign v. U.S. born)
- See American
Factfinder/Summary File 4 for 2000 data
- CIA World
Factbook
- Brief information about a country's population, ethnicity, politics, and
economics
- The corresponding paper copy is in Doc.Cen. G 122 .U56--Doc.Ref.
- Ethnologue
- Comprehensive dictionary to 6500 world languages
- Arranged by language and lists speakers per country
- Country data provides number of speakers per language, percentages of
religious groups, number of blind persons, and number of deaf
institutions
- National
Jewish Population Survey
- Report and powerpoint with summary statistics on Jewish education,
philanthropic giving, Jews in small communities, demographic
characteristics by region
- Special section on characteristics of Holocaust survivors
- Race
- Interracial Marriage
- Marriage,
Divorce, and Remarriage in the 1990s (Census Bureau)
- This 1992 report is one of the few official sources of information
on stepfamilies and blended families (p. 9-12)
- Current Population Report P23, no. 180
- National
Survey of America's Families (Urban Institute)
- Survey taken in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York,
Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin in 1997
- Covers income, health, children, and adult measures
- Includes hard-to-find information, such as difficulty in paying the
rent, school extra-curricular activities, parental aggravation and
difficulty in making housing payments
- Data for the individual states and overall data with analysis
- See also Demographic
Statistics
- Gambling Impact
Behavior Study
- Survey data on the prevalence of adult and youth gambling
- Social effects of gambling (e.g. divorce, criminal justice, health care)
- Demographic characteristics of gamblers
- Adobe Acrobat format
- National Gambling Impact
Study Commission
- Commission created by Congress in 1996 to study impact of gambling on
communities, crime, and individuals
- Research on-going but web site includes some studies with statistics,
especially regarding lotteries
- Final report details types of gambling, regulation, and
recommendations for controlling gambing in the future
- PDF format
- Estimates on the number of homeless in the United States and their
socio-demographic characteristics
- Each section cites further printed sources of information
- Data compiled by the National Coalition for the Homeless
- See Demographic
Statistics for additional data
- Humanitarian
Practice Network
- Links to international governmental and non-governmental agencies
providing humanitarian relief and disaster assistance (Red
Pages)
- Also includes newsletter of relief efforts
- InterAction
- Web site for 150 of the world's relief, development and refugee
assistance agencies
- Links to information on refugees and disaster relief
- News items, such as the status of foreign aid bills, Kurdish refugees
- Description of the American Council for Voluntary Action's
humanitarian
programs
- Office
of Disaster Assistance Reports (USAID)
- Reports since 1999 on natural and manmade disasters throughout the world
- Description of U.S. and international relief efforts
- American Immigration Law
Foundation
- Some analysis of 2000 Census data
- American Laws
Regulating Immigration and Asylum
- Summary of laws passed since 1795
- Includes quotas, standards, literacy
- Center for Immigration
Studies
- Estimates on legal and illegal immigration to the United
States
- Social and economic data on immigrants
- Historical
Statistics
on the Foreign Born Population of the United States (Census
Bureau)
- Resident foreign born population, 1850-1990
- Tables include country of birth, mother tongue, race, age and sex at
a national level
- Nativity data (foreign v. native born) for metropolitan areas,
counties, and 50 large urban areas
- Immigration
Data (Dept of Homeland Security)
- Historical immgration data sources:
- Historical Statistics of the United States, Section
C, covers 1820-1970 (Doc.Cen. HA 202 .A2 1976 v.1 - Ref. Desk)
- Statistical Abstract of the United States provides
more current annual figures (HA 202 - with latest ed. in
Documents Center--Ref. Desk)
- Detailed figures, 1819-1900, were published in the Reports of
the United States Immigration Commission, Vol. 3 (JV 6415
.A3 v.3 and S.Doc. 61/3, No. 756)
- The Graduate Library has the Annual Report of the
Immigration and Naturalization Service for 1896/97-1931/32 (JV 6414
.A3) and
1941/42-1977 (JV 6414 .A4) - all in Buhr
- Early 20th Century reports also appear in the Annual Report of the
Secretary of Labor in the Congressional
Universe (UMich Only)
- Reports of the Bureau of Immigration give admittance by country
- Reports of the Bureau of Naturalization give admissions by state but
not by original country of origin
- This was superseded by the Statistical Yearbook of
Immigration, various years from 1978-1993 (JV 6414.A4)
- Missing years beginning with the 1976 INS publications are
available on American Statistics Index microfiche, 1978 to
present, as 6264-2 (Documents Center)
- Immigration
Commission Reports (Stanford)
- Extensive data and analysis of immigrants plus their employment,
education, and children in the United States, 1907-1910
- Known as the Dillingham Commission
- Forty-one volume set also in the Graduate Library stacks, JV 6415
.A3
- See also Immigrants
and Their Children, 1920 by Niles
Carpenter (Grad JV 6455 .C296), Immigrants and Their
Children, 1850-1950 by E. J. Hutchinson (HB 2595 .H96), some of
the Historical
Census Volumes, and the Documents Center staff for IPUMS
data manipulation using PDQ Explore
- Pre-1820 Data
- State
Master
- Rank states from best to worst using a series of pull-down menus
- Broad categories include crime, economics, education, health,
housing, immigration, labor, and demographics
- Some of the more "unusual data" includes the number of illegal
immigrants, electrocutions v. lethal injections, students scoring above
average on 4th grad math, alligator attacks and flu shots, and state
birds
- Data can be illustrated with a bar graph, pie chart, or map (e.g.
map of states with the largest number of Albanian refugees
- Census of Population and
Housing, 1990
- Describes various paper, CD-ROM and web access to 1990 Census data
for the nation, states, counties, cities, and subcity areas
- Ancestry data appears in Summary Tape File 3, Tables 28-30
- Ethnologue
- Comprehensive dictionary to 6500 world languages
- Arranged by language and lists speakers per country
- Country data provides number of speakers per language, percentages of
religious groups, number of blind persons, and number of deaf
institutions
- International
Population Data Base (Census Bureau)
- Summary vital statistics data for all countries, 1996 and 2000 as
well as mid-year estimates, 1950-2020
- Additional data on marital status, means on contraception, ethnic
origin, religion, literacy, labor force, income and poverty
- Data may be downloaded directly or viewed via a spreadsheet
- Display
Mode provides a user-friendly pull-down menu for viewing on
the screen
- Monthly Vital Statistics
Report
- Monthly national and state birth, death, marriage, and divorce figures
- Mortality statistics categorized by age/race/sex or disease on a
national level
- Monthly data begins with July 1994 issue
- Available only in Adobe Acrobat format
- USA
Counties, 1998 (Census Bureau)
- Population and housing variables (age, ancestry, race, education,
income, and poverty for each county in the nation with some updates from
the Current Population Survey
- 1997 economic census data (manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail
trade, service industries) as well as government employment and finance
- Non-Census data includes federal funds, current employment data from
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, election data through 1996, health, Social
Security beneficiaries, and vital statistics (births, marriages, deaths
- Data may be retrieved for an individual county or comparisons between
counties can be requested
- See also Demographic
Statistics for the marital status of the population at a
given moment in time
- Cumulative
List of Organizations (IRS)
- Lists 10,000 charitable organizations for which contributions are
tax-deductible
- Searchable by name of organization and place; make sure the
and button is marked to narrow the searches of a
given
- Data provides percentage of contributors adjusted gross income which
may be deductible (e.g. 50% deductibility means a person earning $50,000
could deduct $25,000 in contributions)
- Links to related IRS publications
- This is the web version of IRS Publication
78
- Guidestar
(UMich Only)
- Database of 1.5 million non-profit organizations in the United
States, including 10,000 foundations
- Covers arts, the environment, communities, and health services
- Searchable by organization name, subject, place, and category
- To search for grant-providing foundations, use the IRS code:
501(c)(3)
- Provides purpose of the organization, program reports and
considerable financial information, including 990 reports from the
mid-1990s
- The Guidestar public
version is searchable but only provides the address and
phone number
- Independent
Sector
- Research includes public opinion polls on charitable
giving
- National Center for
Charitable Statistics
- Fact sheets on revenues and expenses of charitable organizations by
state and county
- Internal Revenue Service databases by type of charity with statistics
via ftp
- See Federal Tax
for guidelines on beginning nonprofits as well as federal and state
regulations
- United States
- Dept. of Health and Human Services poverty thresholds by size of
family and number of children
- Poverty
Threshholds, 2005 (DHHS)
- Poverty
Threshholds, 2004 (DHHS)
- Poverty
Threshholds, 2003 (DHHS)
- Poverty
Threshholds, 2002 (DHHS)
- Poverty Threshholds,
2001 (DHHS)
- Poverty
Threshholds, 2000 (DHHS)
- Poverty Threstholds,
1999 (DHHS)
- Poverty Thresholds,
1998 (DHHS)
- Poverty
Thresholds, 1997 (DHHS)
- Poverty Thresholds,
1996 (DHHS)
- Poverty
Thresholds, 1994+ (Census Bureau)
- Poverty
Thresholds 1959-94
- Number
of Poor and Poverty Rate of Persons by State, 1980+
- Census
Bureau Household Economics Division
- Current and historical poverty data for United States
- Data Ferret
(BLS/Census)
- Data sets from the Current
Population Survey and Survey of Income and Program
Participation for easy or expert manipulation
- Surveys update and enhance the Decennial Census with national,
state,
and metropolitan area information
- Subjects include income, poverty, employment, education, health
insurance, housing, aging, household and marital status
- Income, poverty and health insurance were the trial data sets as of
May 31, 1997
- Poverty Worldwide
- Global
Urban Indicators Database (UN Center for Human Settlements)
- Detailed socioeconomic indicators for 237 cities in 110 countries,,
mostly in the Third World
- Data includes poverty level and percent in poverty, family income
distribution, per capital gross city product (under health), size of
school classrooms, per capita murder rates, home ownership,
land use
- Data in pdf and text formats
- See Comprehensive Sociology
Sources for poverty statistics in other
countries and Wealth for asset
ownership
- Armed
Forces Equal Opportunity Survey
- Analysis of survey throughout the U.S. military on race relations
- Includes perceptions of relationship problems, promotion
opportunities, incident reports
- Data broken down by race of respondent, military branch, and military
rank
- Executive summary in HTML; full report in pdf at 3.3MB
- Changing
America: Indicators of Social and Economic Well-Being by
Race (White House)
- Charts on national trends in racial well-being since the 1950s
- Areas include population, education, labor markets, economic status,
health, crime, and housing
- Report in PDF format with data downloadable to spreadsheet
- Demography is the primary
location for statistics by race
- Ethnicity covers
language-related information
- Political Science/Related
Disciplines provides link to major minority web
sites
- United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees
- "RefWorld" section includes statistical
reports on refugees by country
- "RefWorld" section also provides "Country" reports with descriptive
text and statistics on the status of refugees by country as well as laws,
treaties and United Nations Documents
- Information about the UNCHR and its publications
- United States
Committee for Refugees
- Annual reports and statistics about refugees by country
- Glossary of terms and links to refugee service organizations
- Adherents
- Statistical data on 4000+ religions
- Arranged alphabetically by religion with world, country, and state
estimates
- Information varies but may include date of estimate, number of
churches, number of members, and the source or quotation
- America's
Military Population (Population Reference Bureau)
- Demographic characteristics of the military in 2001/2002
- Includes religion, sexual orientation, sex, race, occupation and
rank, and state
- Article appearing in Population Bulletin, December 2004
- American Religion Data
Archive (Purdue)
- Statistical data sets on the general U.S. population, religious
groups, religious professionals, and individual denominations
(the latter currently Nazarenes)
- Churches and Church Membership data for
states and counties for 1952, 1971, 1980 and 1990
- Data may be downloaded in various formats
- Codebooks include frequencies and percentages
- A paper copy of the 1990 volume is in the Reference Room (BR
526.C481)
- Ethnocultural
Characteristics in Censuses (UN)
- World map can be altered to show which countries asked ethnicity or
religion questions, 1994-2004
- Click on country to obtain text of questions
- Ethnologue
- Comprehensive dictionary to 6500 world languages
- Arranged by language and lists speakers per country
- Country data provides number of speakers per language, percentages of
religious groups, number of blind persons, and number of deaf
institutions
- Social
Explorer
- National maps with county-level data on religious denomination
membership, 1980-200
- Worldwide
Church Attendance (UMich)
- Percentage of people attending church by country
- Data appears in University of Michigan press release by Ron
Inglehart of the Institute for Social Research
- 1990-95 data based on a World Values
Survey
- World
Culture Report (UNESCO)
- Statistical tables provide data for individual countries on cultural
matters
- Books and newspapers, radios and TV, leading musical artists (e.g.
U2 in Ireland), language, three most frequent religions
- Cultural sites visited, tourism, cellphones and personal computers,
tourism
- Income, human rights laws, social security
- Also available in paper copy in the Documents Center as CB 430 .W78
- American Sexual
Behavior
- Report by the National Opinion Research Center based on the General
Social Survey
- Text and data on premarital and adolescent sexual activity,
cohabitation, adult sexual behavior, sexual partners, extra-marital relations
- Data by sex, age and race
- Adobe Acrobat format
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