Agriculture
Crime
· Defense/Military
o Department of Defense facts and statistics http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/index.html
o Department of Defense publications http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/ http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/archive.html
o National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics (NCVAS) http://www1.va.gov/vetdata/
o DTIC Public Technical Reports http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/search/tr/str/guided-tr.html
· Disasters
· Economic Conditions
– Latest Numbers – Consumer Price Index (CPI), Unemployment Rate…
– Subject areas – Inflation & Prices, Unemployment, Employment, Pay & Benefits
– Featured Publications
§ Occupational Outlook Handbook
§ Monthly Labor Review
– Categories
§ Banking
§ Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Ø Gives Notes: Understanding the CPI – View Data (graph is default)
Ø Time series
§ Exchange Rates
§ Employment & Population
§ Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Components
§ Interest Rates
§ Producer Price Indexes (PPI)
§
§
§ Regional Data
– "Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve District" report
– Very brief
– National Summary, Atlanta Sixth District (9/9/09), etc.
o Federal Reserve http://www.federalreserve.gov/
– Economic Research & Data
§ Statistical Releases and Historical Data
Ø Consumer Credit
Ø Foreign Exchange Rates
Ø Flow of Funds Accounts of the
Ø Debt growth
Ø Mortgage Debt Outstanding
o Survey of Current Business http://www.bea.gov/scb/index.htm
– Bureau of Economic Analysis
– Search by Date http://www.bea.gov/scb/date_guide.asp (1994 to current)
– GDP and Other Major NIPA (national income & product accounts) Series (1929 to current)
– Monthly; prepared by the Council of Economic Advisers for the Joint Economic Committee
– Consumer Price Index
– Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
– Unemployment Rates
– New Construction
– Industrial Production
– Federal Finance
§ Federal Receipts, Outlays, and Debt
§ Interest Rates and Bond Yields
Ø Prime Rate
Ø Federal Funds Rate
§ Federal Receipts by Source and Outlays by Function
Ø National Defense
Ø Health
Ø Medicare
– Budget of the
– Economic Indicators
· Education
o Digest of Education Statistics http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/
o NCES annual reports http://nces.ed.gov/annuals/
o U.S. Census education statistics http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/education.html
o Department of Education Research & Statistics http://www.ed.gov/rschstat/landing.jhtml
o National Science Foundation Division of Science Resources Statistics Publications and Data http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/showpub.cfm?TopID=2
o ERIC, Educational Resources Information Center database http://www.eric.ed.gov/
· Energy
- Energy Sources http://www.eia.doe.gov/
§ Coal, Electricity, Natural Gas, Nuclear, Petroleum, Renewable & Alternative Fuels
o Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Publication & Product Library http://www1.eere.energy.gov/library/
o National Renewable Energy Laboratory Publications http://www.nrel.gov/applying_technologies/publications.html
o Energy Citations Database http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/ ; ETDE World Energy Base http://www.ornl.gov/info/library/etdeweb.htm
· Environment
- Air pollution data, ozone forecasting, and more for specific metro areas
– National Environmental Publications Internet Site (NEPIS) http://www.epa.gov/nscep/
– EPA publications http://www.epa.gov/epahome/publications.htm
– Climate Change, EPA http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/index.html
– Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center. 2003. Trends Online: A Compendium of Data on Global Change. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, DOEH http://cdiac.ornl.gov/trends/trends.htmH
– Learn the issues, EPA http://www.epa.gov/epahome/learn.htm
o Pollution (water, air, wastes)
· Finance and Banking
– Auto Loans, Bank Cards, Mortgages, Student Loans
– Maps
– The
§ Snapshot of Mortgage Conditions with an Emphasis on Subprime Mortgage Performance (21 pages 8/08)
§ Synopses of Selected Research on Housing, Mortgages and Foreclosures (90 pages 9/08)
· Georgia and Atlanta Business
– Georgia Statistical Abstract (biennial)
– Georgia Business and Economic Conditions (quarterly; online only now)
– Georgia Economic Outlook (annual)
– Georgia Housing Permits (annual)
– Data (left column)
§ Housing - Housing Units Authorized by Building Permits (Estimates with Imputation New Residential Construction). Monthly and Annual
§ Georgia Statistics System - Detailed demographic profiles of counties; county-by-county analysis ; city population (2000; and estimates for 2005 and 2008). The profiles from Georgia County Guide. Library has 1981-85, 1987-99, and 2004 (F284.3.G46x). From UGA's Center for Agribusiness & Economic Development.
ü FastStats - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/FASTATS/hinsure.htm
- U.S. Census Bureau -- Health Insurance. See box "Latest Health Insurance Data" http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hlthins/hlthins.html
§ Diseases and Conditions; Publications
- Health Statistics, MedlinePlus, National Library of Medicine http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthstatistics.html
Data & Statistics, CDC http://www.cdc.gov/datastatistics/
National Vital Statistics System, CDC http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss.htm
Issued every 5 years; for preliminary 2007 data see http://www.census.gov/econ/census07/
Includes also state, metro, and zip code data. Online from 1993 (no longer issued in print)
Links to latest releases of retail trade, wholesale trade, international trade statistics, etc.
o American Community Survey (ongoing survey) http://www.census.gov/acs/www/
o
o Population Estimates http://www.census.gov/popest/estimates.html
o Poverty http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty.html
– Data (left column)
§ Housing - Housing Units Authorized by Building Permits (Estimates with Imputation New Residential Construction). Monthly and Annual
– National Data (2007)
§ Mortgage characteristics; value; journey to work
· Recreation
o ITA Office of Travel & Tourism Industries research program/statistics
http://tinet.ita.doc.gov/research/index.html
· Transportation
– Data & Statistics
– Publications
o Federal Aviation Administration data and research http://www.faa.gov/data_research/
o Federal Highway Administration publications and statistics http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/pubstats.html http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/ohpi/hss/hsspubs.cfm
o Aviation Accident Statistics http://www.ntsb.gov/aviation/stats.htm
o Transportation Energy Data Book http://cta.ornl.gov/data/Index.shtml
o Transportation Research Information Service (TRIS Online) http://trisonline.bts.gov/sundev/search.cfm
o Urban Mobility Report (2011) http://mobility.tamu.edu/ums/ - Congestion info. for urban areas. Also has Excel spreadsheet for 101 urban areas, plus detailed reports for each area - Atlanta's report is directly at: http://mobility.tamu.edu/files/2011/09/atlan.pdf
This is a revised and expanded version of the handout distributed at our 2009 COMO "Finding Statistics Fast" presentation.
Acknowledgment
Selected subject headings listed in the research guides at UCLA and the University of Michigan were used for our original presentation and handout.
This Guide, co-authored by Patricia Kenly, uses significant business and government information material from her Georgia Tech Library Research Guides.
