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Reference Books
Historical Statistics of the States of the United States : Two Centuries of the Census, 1790-1990
Ref HA202 .D63 1993
Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970
Ref HA202 .H55 1975
International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-1993
Ref HA1107 .M51 1998
International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-1993
Ref HA4675 .M552 1998
International Historical Statistics: the Americas, 1750-1993
Ref HA175 .M55 1998
Background Notes (U.S. Department of State)
Information on the land, people, government and history of countries with which the US has relations.
CIA World Factbook
Country profiles.
Country and World Rankings Reporter (1995)
Ref HA 155 .G345 1995
Ranks countries by demographics, education, arts, taxes, etc.
Country Briefs (World Bank)
Includes country information and news items.
Country Profiles (United Nations)
Select by country and years of coverage
International
EUROSTAT (European Community)
International Statistical Agencies (U.S. Census Bureau)
Links to official sites of other nations charged with data collection and analysis.
LABORSTA (International Labour Organization)
Human Development Reports (United Nations Development Programme)
NationMaster
Searchable national-level data; allows user to create customized statistical comparisons.
OFFSTATS (University of Auckland Library)
Statistics from official sources; searchable by country, region, or topic)
UNSTATS (United Nations Statistical Division)
United States
FedStats (U.S.)
Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies
Economics and Statistics Administration (U.S. Department of Commerce)
National Center for Health Statistics (U.S. Centers for Disease Control)
STAT-USA (U.S. Department of Commerce)
Economic statistics and trade data; Includes Globus & NTDB and State of the Nation databases
StateMaster
Searchable state-level data; allows user to create customized statistical comparisons.
Statistical Abstract of the United States (GPO, annual)
Current edition online; earlier editions in library stacks: HA 202 .S85
Published by the U.S. Census Bureau, a compendium of social and economic U.S. statistical information.
Virginia Statistics and Data
MapStats: Virginia
Part of FedStats' subset (MapStats) by state, provides profile data by state, county, city, congressional district, or Federal judicial district.
VASTAT (Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, University of Virginia)
Links to Virginia statistics and data, compiled from a variety of sources.
Additional Websites
ICPSR Data Sets (data files; current and historic)
ICPSR provides access to the world’s largest social science data archive, with data sets from over 6300 studies. Data sets are used with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata.
Data on the Net
Annotated catalog of social science data sites
Statistical Sources on the Web (University of Michigan)
For a very basic explanation of statistics, see Statistics Every Writer Should Know.
See also the page Fast Facts: Encyclopedias & Almanacs for facts, statistics, and data.