Library Research in Context: Finding the Good Stuff Fast (417:001:005)
Librarian/Instructor: Marianne Mason
Federal Documents Librarian
October 28, 2008
Selected Statistics Resources:
Bureau of Economic Analysis provides most current information about the U.S. economy relating to the domestic, international, industry, and regional accounts.
Bureau of Justice Statistics provides information on crime, law enforcement, prosecution and the justice system.
Bureau of Labor Statistics includes most recent data of Consumer Price Index, unemployment, wages, productivity, inflation calculator and much more.
Census Bureau provides numerical and narrative information on people, households, business & industry, geographic areas and special reports that reflect society at a particularly point in time.
FedStats serves as a gateway to over 100 federal agencies that collect statistics
Historical Statistics of the United States 
covers pre-colonial history through present day issues. HSUS is arranged in a hierarchy in five broad categories including population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, economic sectors, and governance and international relations.
Lexis-Nexis Statistical 
provides abstracts and indexes of statistical information from over 100,000 U.S. government publications from 1973, including some links to full-text publications.
National Center of Education Statistics collects and analyzes data related to education.
Statistical Abstract of the United States is a summary of statistics collected from all federal data-collecting agencies providing social, political, economic information in table format.
