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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 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

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

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

Demography and Housing (UMich)

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

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

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

FBI Trac (Syracuse University)