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Price's List of Lists

Links to rating services for the top businesses and executive pay, places to live, universities, and campaign contributors
Includes market share by industry
Last updated in 2002

Right Site - Demographics Database

Demographic and marketing data for cities, counties, states, zip codes, area codes, TV marketing areas, etc.
Data base includes updated population variables (age, race, sex, education, housing), crime, weather, and entertainment opportunities
Business section includes rankings for places under such categories as "single with money," "easy commute," and "reasonably priced older homes"

Science and Engineering Statistics (NSF)

Links to federal, international, foreign, and private statistical agency web sites

Social Indicators (UN)

Brief data on population, housing, education and literacy, income and uncemployment
Data for individual countries with varying dates of collection given

Social Science Data Collections (Yahoo)

List of U.S. and international data archives
Archives include catalogs of holdings and often data bases with a searchable web interface

Sociometrics Web Links

Spatial and Numeric Data Services at the University of Michigan Library

Describes how to find data sets at University of Michigan
Includes membership in the Harvard/MIT Data Center
Catalog of online numeric and spatial data sets available on campus, including ESRI, local items

State and County QuickFacts (Census Bureau)

Brief data for each state and county
Current population estimates by broad age group, race, homeownership, household income, poverty
Retail sales, building permits, federal grants, area, and density
Compares states with the U.S. and compares counties with the state

State and Metropolitan Area Data Book (Census Bureau)

Updates 2000 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

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