| Statistical Data |
| Since you've ventured here, you probably need statistical data. We at Schaffer Library’s Reference Desk do the proverbial "land-office business" in data, and our print and electronic reference collection has been built, in part, to try to satisfy the demand for numbers.
Do you ever feel like the only numbers you can find are the ones you DON’T need...?! Why is that, anyway? We don’t know either (!) but at least we can assure you that you’re not alone! And we built this page to help bridge the gap between what you need and what you find. But though it is intended to answer many users' data needs, no Web-site can handle them all, and so we strongly encourage you to work with the librarians at the Reference Desk for further assistance and one-to-one service. Sources
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Databooks Datapedia of the United States: American History in Numbers / edited by Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, (Library has 1928- ) World Almanac and Book of Facts. New York, Newspaper Enterprise Association [etc.], (Library has 1887- ) Almanac of Business and Financial Ratios. Leo Troy, ed. Paramus, NJ. : Prentice Hall ; c2002. Business Statistics of the United States. Lanham, MD : Bernan Press, (Library has 1996- ) CPI Detailed Report. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Prices and Living Conditions : Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., (Library has 1979- ) Economic Indicators / prepared for the Joint Committee on the Economic Report Economic Indicators Handbook : Time Series, Conversions, Documentation. Detroit : Gale Research, 2000. Economic Report of the President transmitted to the Congress. Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., Library has 1947- ) Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics : Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data. Lanham, Md., USA : Bernan Press, (Library has 1997- ) Hoover's Handbook of American Business (also ... of Emerging Companies, and ... of Private Companies). Austin, Tex. : Reference Press, Inc., (Library has current year for each.) Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios. New York : Dun & Bradstreet, (Library has 1987-) Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys. New York, Standard & Poor's Corp., (Library has 1977- ) Stocks, Bonds, Bills and Inflation Yearbook. Chicago, Ill. : R.G. Ibbotson Associates, (Library has 1989- ) Survey of Current Business. Washington, D.C., United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, (Library has 1959- ) U.S. Trade and Industry Outlook. Washington, D.C. and New York, United States Department of Commerce, and McGraw-Hill. (Library keeps latest issue) Business Statistics of the United States. Lanham, MD : Bernan Press, (Library has 1996- )
Datapedia of the United States: American History in Numbers / edited by Historical Statistics of the United States : Earliest times to the Present / editors in chief, Susan B. Carter, et al. New York : Cambridge University Press, c2006.
How Much Is That in Real Money? : a Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of International Historical Statistics : the Americas, 1750-2000 / B.R. Mitchell. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, (Library has 1928- ) The Value of a Dollar : Prices and Incomes in the United States, 1860-1999 / edited by Scott Derks. Millerton, NY : Grey House Pub., 1999.
World Almanac and Book of Facts. New York, Newspaper Enterprise Association [etc.], (Library has 1887- )
Book of the States. Lexington, Ky.:Council of State Governments, (Library has 1935- ) CQ's State Fact Finder. Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly Inc., (Library has 1993- ) City Crime Rankings : Crime in Metropolitan America / Kathleen O'Leary Morgan and Scott Morgan, editors. Lawrence, KS : Morgan Quitno Press, (Library has 2001-) County and City Data Book. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, (Library has 1949- ) (Bernan Press's County and City Extra supplements the above and is shelved together with the County and City Data Book.) County and City Extra: Annual Metro, City, and County Data Book. Lanham, MD : Bernan Press, c1992- (Library acquires selected years of this Extra to supplement the County and City Data Book above.) Crime in America's Top-Rated Cities; a Statistical Profile, 1979-1998. Lakeville, Ct.: Grey House Publishing, (Library has 1995-) Crime State Rankings. Lawrence, KS: Morgan Quitno Corp., c1994- (Library has 2001- ) CALL NUMBER: Ref HA544 .A2 INTERNET VERSION State and Metropolitan Area Data Book. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, (Library has 1979- ) CALL NUMBER: Ref HA202 .S84 INTERNET VERSION USA Counties. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. INTERNET VERSION Balance of Payments Yearbook. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund. (Library has 1962- ) Country Forecasts. Syracuse, N.Y. : Political Risk Services, Frost & Sullivan, Inc., (Library has current year only) Demographic Yearbook. New York: Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office, United Nations. (Library has 1948- ) Demographic Yearbook of Russia. Moscow : Goskomstat, (Library has 1995-) Direction of Trade Statistics. Yearbook. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, (Library has 1962- ) MONTHLY ISSUES SHELVED AS PERIODICAL Europa World Year Book. London, England : Europa Publications Limited, (Library has 1962-) European Marketing Data and Statistics. London : Euromonitor Publications Ltd. Handbook of North American Industry / edited by John E. Cremeans. Washington, DC : Bernan Press, 1999. Hoover's Handbook of World Business. Austin, TX : Reference Press, (Library has current year only) International Financial Statistics. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund. (Library has 1963- ) International Historical Statistics : Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-2000 / B.R. Mitchell. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. International Historical Statistics : Europe, 1750-2000 / B.R. Mitchell. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. International Historical Statistics : the Americas, 1750-2000 / B.R. Mitchell. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. International Marketing Data and Statistics. London: Euromonitor Publications Ltd. (Library has 2001- ) International Trade Statistics Yearbook. New York: Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office, United Nations, (Library has 1968-) Statistical Yearbook. New York: United Nations. Statistical Office, (Library has 1949- )
World Almanac and Book of Facts. New York, Newspaper Enterprise Association [etc.], (Library has 1887- ) World Development Indicators. Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, (The Library has 1998- ) America Votes. Washington, D.C.:Elections Research Center, Congressional Quarterly, American Cost of Living Survey. Detroit : Gale Research, (Library has 1994- ) American Marketplace : Demographics and Spending Patterns. Ithaca, N.Y. : New Strategist Publications, (Library has 1992- ) American Men and Women: Demographics of the Sexes. Ithaca, N.Y. : New Strategist Publications, 2000. American Salaries and Wages Survey, by Arsen J. Darnay. Detroit: Gale Group, (Library has 1991- ) Black Americans : a Statistical Sourcebook / Louise L. Hornor, editor. Palo Alto, CA : Information Publications, (Library has 1996- ) Crime in the United States: Uniform Crime Reports for the United States. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, (Library has 1961- ) Gallup Poll. Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, (Library has 1935- ) Gallup Poll Briefing. Washington, D.C. : The Gallup Organization, c2002- Hispanic Americans: a Statistical Sourcebook / Louise L. Hornor, editor. Palo Alto, CA : Information Publications, (Library has 1998- ) Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, (Library has 1974- ). Statistical Handbook on Racial Groups in the United States / by Tim B. Heaton, Bruce A. Chadwick, and Cardell K. Jacobson. Phoenix, AZ : Oryx Press, 2000. Weather Almanac : a Reference Guide to Weather, Climate, and Related Issues in the United States and Its Key Cities / Richard A. Wood, editor. Detroit : Gale Group, c2001. Mergent Online IMPORTANT: Go to the Mergent Online link above for the current, electronic version of Moody's. Here is another "gold mine" of data about the firm. Note that the link above takes you to the list of databases beginning with the letter “L”. Click on Lexis-Nexis: Business, and at its site displayed on the left you will find a number of choices with firm-specific information. Enter any one and search by company name or ticker symbol. Use the “Sources” option under each, and you will see that Lexis-Nexis: Businessdraws from such noted corporate-information databanks as: Statistical Publications and DataSets (in Lexis-Nexis) The link above takes you to the list of databases beginning with the letter “L”. Click on Lexis-Nexis, and once there look on the lower left for the link “Statistical” under the heading Related Products. Statistical Publications and DataSets is a significant online source of statistical data in the Reference Collection. It cites data and in some cases provides full-text; for the rest, it is backed up by microfiche, as follows:
Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S.)—http://www.bls.gov--includes a great variety of time series viewable on screen, especially (un)employment and prices, some local. Bureau of the Census (U.S.)—http://www.census.gov--data on the site is extensive and open to the creative imagination to apply--population data from the latest census is found through the "American FactFinder" link. Housing data and other special topics are accessible through the Web-site as well. County Business Patterns (U.S.)-- http://www.census.gov/econ/cbp/index.html--under the auspices of the Bureau of the Census, this data site specializes in local-level microeconomic patterns. DataFERRET--http://dataferrett.census.gov/--represents the Federal Electronic Research, Review, and Extraction Tool, whereby the user can extract and compile datasets of one's own design out of data residing with the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Department of Commerce (U.S.)—http://www.commerce.gov--the umbrella organization serving as entree both to some of the above agencies as well as others with data on their sites. Economic Indicators--http://www.gpoaccess.gov/indicators/browse.html Fedstats--http://www.fedstats.gov-- leads to data published by more than 100 separate federal agencies. Federal Reserve Board--http://www.federalreserve.gov--links to "the Fed"'s site, with full text research and discussion papers; minutes, testimony, and speeches of "Fed" officials; statistics General Accounting Office--http://www.gao.gov--offers the current (even daily) investigative reports of this "arm" of the Congress in full text and in abstracts. See “Topic Collections” link for GAO reports organized by theme. See “The Nation’s Fiscal Outlook” link for overview of economic indicators. Stat-USA/Internet--http://www.stat-usa.gov/-- Originating from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Stat-USA is a fee-based database free of charge to Union College users as borrowers at a U.S. government document depository library. Stat-USA has two parts: the State of the Nation (with over 50,000 current and historical U.S. statistical releases, state and regional analysis reports, forecasts, and financial data) and Globus/ NTD (with over 200,000 current and historical trade-related releases, international market research, country analysis, and trade and procurement leads). Although use is free, a password is required for entering some files. Come to the Reference Desk for assistance. Also USA.gov--http://www.usa.gov--can lead you to any U.S. government agency's Web-site, many of which have clearly labeled links to data they collect and publish, often online and free to access. There are many non-public data sites, often drawing their data from public sources but offering "value-added" reformatting for better use with spreadsheets as well as analysis. Down to some levels of their services there may be no charge for access. One to try is:Hoovers Online--www.hoovers.com/free--a commercial site with advertising paying the costs, so in part its data is free. Although not directly intended as sources of numbers, the following subscription databases each contains or leads to thousands of journals and their articles, many of which are in full-text format. Searching them by subject may prove fruitful in the quest for numbers: (Please note: the links below take you to the full alphabetical list of Schaffer Library's Databases and Indexes, where the following can be found under the first letters of their titles.) Of course any of the Library’s databases may lead to statistics. A time saver for cross-searching most of the databases at the same time is WebFeat, and it is worth a try. Standard Statistical Distribution Tables 100 Statistical Tests / Gopal K. Kanji. London ; Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1993. CRC Handbook of Tables for Probability and Statistics. Editor: William H. Beyer. Cleveland, Chemical Rubber Co., 1966. Chi-Squared Distribution / H. O. Lancaster. New York, Wiley, 1969. Handbook of Probability and Statistics with Tables, by Richard Stevens Burington and Donald Curtis May, Jr. Sandusky, Ohio, Handbook Publishers, 1958. Handbook of Statistical Tables. / D. B. Owen. Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1962. New Cambridge Statistical Tables / D.V. Lindley & W.F. Scott. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995. Statistical Tables for the Social, Biological and Physical Sciences / compiled by F.C. Powell. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982. A few statistical tables on the Web: Math.com - Statistical Distributions (http://www.math.com/tables/stat/distributions.htm) Statistical Distributions (http://www.math2.org/math/stat/distributions.htm) A very good book: If help with statistical methodology is what you really need--regression, correlation, significance, that sort of thing—the fundamentals are well explained in a statistics text like Sirkin, R. Mark. Statistics for the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Should "Sirkin" be charged out, other good, introductory statistics textbooks can be found by checking the books on the shelf nearby that same call number (above). And of course some Web-sites to help with statistical methods Multivariate Statistics: A Practical Guide (http://cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/subsite/wulder/multivariate) Quantitative Data Analysis: An Introduction (http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/pe10111.pdf) Rice Virtual Lab in Statistics (http://onlinestatbook.com/rvls.html) Statistics Every Writer Should Know (http://www.robertniles.com/stats/) Suggestions (especially for those at the "intro to stats" level) (1) Suppose you're having trouble finding the data that you're looking for. A good question to ask yourself is whether you “absolutely positively” have to find the independent variable(s) you thought up. Let's say you do have some flexibility. Here's a suggestion: (2) Here's another coping strategy: aggregate (or disaggregate) the data you seek. Suppose you want monthly but you only find quarterly data (or vice versa). Consider interpolating or consolidating the data...or even using what you can find. (3) However, it is important that you adhere to the number of cases or observations that you are assigned to collect, even if that means altering the independent variables as in (1) or (2) above--because in statistical analysis the number of cases (observations) matters! It affects the validity of the outcome. At Union, good statistical support can also be found beyond the Library, of course! By all means ask for help from your teacher. Also, there's the Stat Lab in the basement of Social Sciences, where you can learn to use Excel, SPSS, and E-Views, among others. And there are some good statistics leads provided by the Economics Department on its departmental Web-site. There is the International Encyclopedia of Statistics shelved at Ref HA 17 .I63 in the Library's Reference Collection, and whether you're truly stuck or your wheels are just spinning a little, please remember: The Reference Desk welcomes your question(s)!! |
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