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AmeriStat - (dead link)
"...gives you instant summaries ó in graphics and text ó of the demographic characteristics of the U.S. population..."
By Population Reference Bureau and Social Science Data Analysis Network in partnership with demographer Bill Frey and a team of his colleagues from the University of Michigan and the State University of New York at Albany

TheDataWeb
"TheDataWeb is network of online data libraries. Topics include, census data, economic data, health data, income and unemployment data, population data, labor data, cancer data, crime and transportation data, family dyanmics, vital statistics data ... As a user you have an easy access to all these kinds of data. As a participant in TheDataWeb you can publish your data to TheDataWeb and, in turn, benefit as a provider to the consumer of data."
- A Collaboration between the U.S. Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control

Fedstats
"More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information produced by these agencies for public use."

Census Bureau - See Statistics - U.S. Census Bureau

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

ChildStats.gov
Forum on Family and Child Statistics



CPANDA: Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive
"An interactive digital archive of data on the arts and cultural policy in the U.S., available for research and statistical analysis, with data on artists, arts and cultural organizations, audiences, and funding for arts and culture."
Sections include: Data Archive ; Quick Facts ; Research Guides ; Other Links.
- Princeton University Firestone Library and the Princeton Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Homepage

  • Environmental Indicators Initiative - (dead link)
    "...improves the Agency's ability to report on the status of and trends in environmental conditions and their impacts on human health and the nation's natural resources."
    • Draft Report on the Environment - (dead link)
      "...is designed for general reading. It highlights the progress the nation has made in protecting its air, water, and land resources, and describes the measures that can be used to track the status of the environment and human health."
    • Draft Technical Document - (dead link)
      "...provides the scientific foundation for the Draft Report on the Environment. It discusses in detail the indicators and data that are currently available, as well as their limitations."
  • Office of Air & Radiation
    • AIRData
       "...gives you access to air pollution data for the entire United States ... AIRData presents annual summaries of air pollution data from three EPA databases: AIRS (Aerometric Information Retrieval System) database provides air monitoring data - ambient concentrations of criteria air pollutants at monitoring sites, primarily in cities and towns ... NET (National Emission Trends) database provides estimates of annual emissions of criteria air pollutants from point, area, and mobile sources ... NTI (National Toxics Inventory) database provides estimates of annual emissions of hazardous air pollutants from point, area, and mobile sources."

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

  • Historical Statistics on Banking
    "...provides annual statistical information on the banking industry beginning in 1934. These data can be used to identify and analyze long-term trends and to develop benchmarks to evaluate the current condition of the banking and thrift industries... The HSOB contains aggregated data from individual financial reports filed by FDIC-insured commercial banks and savings institutions. These aggregated data are also available for individual states, U.S. territories and U.S. possessions."
  • Statistics on Depository Institutions (SDI)
    "...is an advanced feature of the FDIC's Institution Directory (ID) system. Within SDI, the end user will find financial reports that are presented in greater detail and equipped with increased functional power to analyze the financial institutions industry."

Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics

National Center for Health Statistics

National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Association - National Weather Service

  • Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services
    • Natural Hazard Statistics
      "...provide statistical information on fatalities, injuries and damages caused by weather related hazards. These statistics are compiled by the Office of Services and the National Climatic Data Center from information contained in Storm Data, a report comprising data from NWS forecast offices in the 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands."

National Science Foundation

U.S. Census Bureau - See Statistics - U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Courts - Federal Judiciary

U.S. Department of Commerce

  • Bureau of Economic Analysis - (dead link)
  • Export Portal
  • U.S. International Trade Commission
    • "The Economic Impact of US Sanctions with Respect to Cuba" - (dead link) [.pdf]
    • Metropolitan Area Exports
      An Export Performance Report on Over 250 U.S. Cities
      "For the second year in a row, the Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Washington metro area was the nation's top exporting metropolis in 1999, selling a total of $32.4 billion in merchandise to foreign markets."
    • State Exports to Countries and Regions
      "...contains export data for a limited number of major U.S. export markets."

U.S. Department of Education Home Page

  • National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
    • Encyclopedia of ED Stats
      "...brings together data from several NCES sources including: The Condition of Education, The Digest of Education Statistics, and Projections of Education Statistics. You will be able to find information in these compendiums by searching documents through their table of contents, by subject area, and through full text and table title word searches."
    • K12 Practitioners' Circle
       "This site is designed to make your search for National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and selected U.S. Department of Education (ED) K-12 resources fast, easy, and productive. The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in the U.S. Department of Education, is the primary federal resource for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations."
    • Projections of Education Statistics to 2011 - (dead link) (August 2001)
      "This publication provides projections for key education statistics. It includes statistics on enrollment, graduates, teachers, and expenditures in elementary and secondary schools, and enrollment and graduates of degree-granting institutions."
    • Education Finance Statistics Center (EDFIN)
    • National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
  • National Education Goals Panel - (dead link)
  • Office of Postsecondary Education
    • Campus Security Statistics Report - (dead link)
      Campus security data analysis cutting tool website.

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

U.S. Department of Justice

  • Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) - (dead link)
  • Laws, Regulations, and Guides - (dead link)
  • Immigration and Nationality Act - (dead link)
  • Statistics - (dead link)
    "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 INS actions such as apprehension, removal, or naturalization. The INS Statistics Branch periodically publishes reports on these various activities, as information becomes available from the INS data collection systems."
  • Statistical Yearbook - (dead link)

U.S. Department of Labor

  • Bureau of International Labor Affairs - (dead link)
  • Publications & Reports (OIEA) - (dead link)
  • Occupational Outlook Handbook
    "...is a nationally recognized source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about their future work lives. The Handbook is revised every two years.

U.S. Economics and Statistics Administration - (dead link)

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The White House

  • Drug Facts & Statistics - (dead link)

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