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Cigarette Smoking
  • Percent of population smoking cigarettes, 1965 to present
  • Data by age, race, and sex
Cite Health
  • Ann Arbor Hospitals
    • Series of articles in Ann Arbor News beginning on p.1 of November 29, 1999
    • Outlines effects of federal budget cutbacks on U-M Hospital, St. Joseph's and Beyer
    • Includes budget, 1998/99 receipts and deficit, and means for meeting Medicare cutbacks (equipment, staff shortages, etc.)
    • Pie charts include percentage of business from Medicare, HMO
    • Not available on the web
Clinical Trials (NIH)
  • Lists over 40,000 federal and private clinical trials to test medications
  • Provides details of medicine and recruitment information
  • Searchable by keyword, whether or not recruiting, and medical condition of patient
College Drinking (NIAA)
  • Statistics on deaths and injuries caused by college drinking
  • Research
  • Links to drinking policies of individual colleges
  • Sections for students, college presidents, campus health administrators, peer counselors
Combined Health Information Database (NIH)
  • This content is no longer available at its original address. The link is to the archived version at the Internet Archive from 2007. The database was discontinued in Sept 2006.
  • Index to books and articles on various health topics (AIDS, cancer, diabetes, etc) with corresponding abstracts and order information
  • Searching the database by subject and the term "statistics" will bring up the names of printed books containing the data, even though the data itself is not on-line
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
Consumer Product Safety Commission
  • Online consumder protection publications (e.g. toys, carbon monoxide)
  • List of product recalls since 1994 arranged by date or searchable by subject
Core Health Indicators (World Health Organization)
  • Tables show basic country information on fertility and mortality rates, life expectancy, and national health care expenditures
  • First choose format for table and then the county
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
Data.Gov
  • Pan-government web site for microdata (raw, uncalculated data) produced by the major statistical-producing agencies
  • Searchable by keyword and/or category, agency, and file type (xml, csv, kml/kmz, esri, and other)
  • As of June 2009, this is a fledgling web site with 204 data files, primarily from the Environmental Protection Agency and Internal Revenue Service; expansion expected
 
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