Legal Research Links - Federal Statistics
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- Agriculture Statistics reports and datasets covering US and international agriculture, with most in spreadsheet format. Access by title, subject, agency, or keyword.
- American FactFinder
- American's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being The 2001 edition of an annual compendium of statistical indicators on US children, produced by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.
- Asian Population 2000 report provides a brief introduction to the regional and national distribution of the Asian and Asian-American population in the United States.
- Bureau of Economic Analysis provides personal income and gross product data by state.
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Census Bureau web site includes the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey.
- Census Bureau State Data Centers page has links to each state's Data Center.
- CensusScope is a tool that provides census data for states, counties, and metropolitan areas. existing data repositories such as LDAP and a relational database. [MG]
- 2002 Census of Governments contains the official counts of the number of state and local governments in the US, along with tabulations of governments by state, type of government, size, and county location.
- Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics web site includes links to federal statistical agencies as well as organizational information.
- Index of Current Population Reportss.
- Trade Stats Express has the latest annual and quarterly trade data. Retrieve, visualize, analyze, print and download your customized output.
- Government Transportation Financial Statistics report highlights statistics.
- Department of Defense Almanac variety of information and statistical material about the Department of Defense
- FedStats access to the full range of statistics and information produced by over 70 federal agencies for public use.
- Annual Capital Expenditures survey provides detailed information on industry capital investments in building and other structures, machinery and equipment, furniture, computers, and vehicles by nonfarm businesses.
- The Geography of U.S. Diversity synthesizes the basic patterns and changes in the US racial population distribution in the last decade.
- Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment, 2000 highlights data on the labor force, employment, and unemployment in states and substate areas.
- Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970
- Language Usage in US Homes Detailed language spoken at home and ability to speak English for persons 5 years and over.
- Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses from 1790 to 2000 documents the census of population from its initial start in 1790.
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
- National Transportation Statistics is an exhaustive survey of the United States transportation system.
- Population Profile of the United States: 2000 is the first Internet-only version of this US Census Bureau product. It includes data from surveys conducted in the year 2000 and earlier.
- Population Representation in the Military Services since 1997.
- Probation and Parole in the United States, 2008 is a BJS report on the number of persons on probation and parole during 2008 and the growth rates in these populations during the year and since 2000.
- Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994 is a 16-page report on the rate of recidivism among a cohort of 272,111 former inmates for three years after their release in 1994.
- State and County QuickFacts provides frequently requested Census Bureau information at the national, state and county level.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States and historical back to 1878.
- Statistical Data Locators directory from Nanyang Technical University.
- Statistics of the Federal Elections official vote counts from the official sources among the various states and territories since 1920 complied by the Clerk of the House.
- Traffic Stops Statistics Act of 1997 is an article by Mark Drake.
- The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse has six free public sites on the major investigative agencies.
- Uniform Crime Reports
- USGS Water Resources Data of USA Provides access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
- US Population Projections are up-to-the-second from the US Bureau of the Census.
- Vital Statistics of the United States


