| Statistical Data |
| Since you've ventured here, you may be one of the many who turn to Schaffer Library in search of statistical data. We 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.
Data sources seem to be in inexhaustible supply (except when YOU'RE looking for something in particular...). This page is aimed at helping to bridge that gap. Though it is intended to answer many users' data needs, it certainly cannot 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, 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 2000 and earlier volumes.) New York State Statistical Yearbook. Albany : New York (State), Division of the Budget, Office of Statistical Coordination, (Library has 1967- ) State and Metropolitan Area Data Book. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, (Library has 1979- ) World Almanac and Book of Facts.New York, Newspaper Enterprise Association [etc.], (Library has 1887- ) Balance of Payments Yearbook. Washington, D.C.: International Monetary Fund. 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- ) Directions of Trade Statistics. Yearbook. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, (Library has 1962- ) Europa World Year Book. London, England : Europa Publications Limited, (Library has 1962- ) European Marketing Data and Statistics. London : Euromonitor Publications Ltd. (Library has 2000 and later volumes.) 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 and later volumes.) 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- ) World Development Report. New York: Oxford University Press, for the World Bank, (The Library has 1979-1997) America Votes. Washington, D.C.:Elections Research Center, Congressional Quarterly, American Cost of Living Survey. Detroit : Gale Research, (Library has 1994 and later volumes.) American Marketplace : Demographics and Spending Patterns. Ithaca, N.Y. : New Strategist Publications, (Library has 1992 and later volumes.) 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 and later volumes.) Black Americans : a Statistical Sourcebook / Louise L. Hornor, editor. Palo Alto, CA : Information Publications, (Library has 1996 and later volumes.) Crime in America's Top-Rated Cities; a Statistical Profile . Lakeville, Ct., Grey House Publishing, (Library has 1995 and later volumes.) 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- ) European Marketing Data and Statistics. London : Euromonitor Publications Ltd. (Library has 2000 and later volumes.) Gallup Poll. Wilmington, Del. : Scholarly Resources, (Library has 1935- ) Gallup Poll Tuesday 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 and later volumes.) International Marketing Data and Statistics. London, Euromonitor Publications Ltd. (Library has 2001 and later volumes.) 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 For even older data, Moody's Industrial (and other )Manuals are shelved at or nearby qHG 4961 .M67 Lexis-Nexis Business/Company Information Here is one of the "gold mines" of data about the firm. Note that the link above takes you to the Library's databases page, and on the left is the Lexis-Nexis link. At the Lexis-Nexis site you will find a number of choices with firm-specific information. Enter any one and you then see a pull-down called "Source" that allows you to pick from lists of such corporate-information databanks as: The Statistical index Portion of Lexis-Nexis (Please note: The link above takes you to the Library's databases page, and on the left is the Lexis-Nexis link. At the Lexis-Nexis site, choose the link "Statistical.") The Statistical index portion of Lexis-Nexis 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:
Economic Statistics Briefing Room (http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html)--a service of the Executive Branch Also, theFederal Web Locator (http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl/)--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: Further leads can be found on the Statistics page of the well-regarded and reliable Librarians' Index to the Internet.
Although not directly intended as sources of numbers, the following three subscription databases each contain 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 Library's Databases and Indexes page, where the following can be found on the left under "Any Topic".)
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 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. 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--these are well explained in a statistics text like 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).
Multivariate Statistics: A Practical Guide (http://www.pfc.forestry.ca/profiles/wulder/mvstats/) 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. Do you absolutely positively have to find the independent variable(s) you thought up? (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 to pursue 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! 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 on the homepages of several faculty in the Social Sciences: Professors Cotter or Klein. >The Economics Department provides links to data sources 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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