Government Websites:

The Statistical Abstracts of the United States can now be found online. Browse reports that ennumerate aricultural and manufacturing output of the nation and health, education, and economic data as well as tons of other information for the American population. (You can also click on an overview which summarizes the purpose of the document.) Note that you can also find state rankings to the right of the original page.

For other types of statistics, checkout MarketLine, one of the databases in the A-Z list. Notice that to the right of the screen, there is a blue box entitled "Tools and Database" Click on "Understand Country Dynamics" to get quantitative statistics about any number of population traits, from consumption to education to production information.

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Finding Information in the Library :

You can find lots of good current and historical information in our library by using the catalog. A search of "United States" as a phrase and "statistics" as a subject word turns up several hundred resources in our library.

For more information about searching the library catalog, look at our guide.

You can also search databases from our library pages for different statistics. Find a database in the subject area you are researching, and once again, try searching by a word that you are interested in (such as "education level") and "statistics."

Finally, newspapers such as those carried on Lexis-Nexis and separately, the Chicago Tribune, will often give different statistics in articles. Search these databases by the topic that interests you in order to get more information.

 

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