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*Social Sciences: Statistics

Current statistics

Statista
A statistics portal with over 18,000 public, private and proprietary data sources. Download data, immediately add data to powerpoint slides or excel. Source citations included for all data including links back to original sources.

Census Bureau Data
"Learn about America’s People, Places, and Economy"
American National Election Studies
Census of Governments (state and local governments)
Data.gov
Find data, tools and resources for the U.S. government's open data.
Election statistics
From the Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
Pew Research Center for the People & the Press: Datasets

U.S. Historical Statistics

Statistical Abstract of the United States - ProQuest
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Coverage: 1950s-present

Census Bureau Library
The core subjects of the Census Bureau Library are: Statistics, Survey Methodology and Sampling, Population Studies, Demography, Geography, Computer Technology, Census Histories, and International Census Data

Historical Statistics of the United States
A compendium of statistics provided by Cambridge University Press from over 1000 sources, expanded to include over 37,000 data series and dozens of new topics, among them slavery, American Indians, and poverty. Subjects include Criminal Justice, Economics, Education, Health and Medicine, History, Political Science, Social Work, and Sociology and Cultural Anthropology.

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