With the advent of the World Wide Web, information has never been so readily available or easier to come by. However,
finding the right information is not an easy task. It’s like looking for a policeman. They are always around when you
don’t need them, but you can never seem to find one when you do need them. This is especially true for statistical data.
With millions of sites springing up each week in cyberspace, locating the statistical data you need, whether for marketing
or academic research, can be a very time consuming endeavor. The following is a list of Web sites containing international
and U.S. statistical data compiled from couple of excellent online articles
titled: "Wide Wide World of Statistics: International Statistics on
the Internet" by Geraldine Foudy, and " The
Numbers Game: The Top 10 Sources for Statistics" by Paula Berinstein. Both articles provide useful advice on how to
find the statistical information you need on the Internet.
Sources of International and Domestic Statistics on the Internet
U.S. Government Sites With International Statistics
- http://www.fedstats.gov - The home page for the Interagency Council on
Statistical Policy has links to over 70 federal agencies that collect, analyze and disseminate both domestic and
international statistics.
- http://www.census.gov - The Census Bureau covers topics such as: Population,
Housing, Retail and Wholesale Sales, Income, State and Local Area Profiles, and Service Industries and Manufacturing,
among others.
- http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbnew.html - The U.S.
Census Bureau's International Data Base has online socioeconomic data for 227 countries in such categories as population,
vital statistics, literacy, labor force, employment, and income.
- http://www.census.gov/stat_abstract/ - Consists wholly of
statistics and includes data from private as well as government sources. It covers a wide range of topics such as: People
and Society, Money, Government, Health, Industry, The Land, State Rankings, and Other Countries.
- http://www.bea.doc.gov/ - the Bureau of Economic Analysis
- http://stats.bls.gov - the Bureau of Labor Statistics covers Labor, Employment,
Earnings, Prices, Foreign Labor Statistics, and the Consumer Price Index.
- http://www.bts.gov/programs/itt/ - the Bureau of Transportation
- http://www.energy.gov/ - The Energy Information Administration
- http://www.fas.usda.gov/ - the Foreign Agricultural Services
- http://www.ita.doc.gov/ - the International Trade Administration
- http://www.odci.gov/index.html - the Central Intelligence Agency
United Nations
- http://apps.fao.org/ the Food and Agriculture Organization
- http://www.imf.org/ - the International Monetary Fund
- http://www.unicef.org - UNICEF
- http://www.undp.org - The U.N. Development Program
- http://www.unece.org/stats/data.htm - the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe
- http://grid2.cr.usgs.gov/ - the U.N. Environmental Program
- http://unescostat.unesco.org/ - UNESCO
- http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/statistics - The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
- http://www.who.int/whosis/ - the World Health Organization
- http://www.worldbank.org/data/ - the World Bank
- http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/statdiv.htm - The U.N. Statistics Division has links to online version of selected tables from such seminal publications as Demographic Yearbook and World Population Prospects.
Intergovernmental and Non-governmental Organizations
- http://www.iadb.org - Inter-American Development Bank
- http://www.adb.org - Asian Development Bank
- http://www.bis.org/publ/index.htm - Bank for International Settlements
- http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex - Amnesty International
- http://www.cdi.org - the Center for Defense Information
- http://www.worldwatch.org/index.html - the Worldwatch Institute
- http://www.refugees.org/world/countryrpt/mapsearch.htm The U.S. Committee for Refugees
- http://www.demographics.com - Presents rich statistical content in full text form. Strong on American consumer demographics.
Academic Web Sites
- http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ - the InterUniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research from the University of Michigan provides “Access to the world’s largest archive of computerized social science data.”
- http://www.ciesin.org/ - The Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University provides interactive query searching of its data archives.
- http://www.pwt.econ.upenn.edu/ - The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn World Table displays economic accounts time-series data for many different countries.
- http://libweb.uncc.edu/ref-bus/reg.htm - Virtual Business and Economic Sources site at UNC-Charlotte
- http://demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/ - Australian National University’s WWW Virtual Library
- http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/stat/statdata.htm - Nanyang’s Statistical Data Locator
Major Business Journals
- http://www.forbes.com - Forbes
- http://www.fortune.com - Fortune
- http://www.businessweek.com - Business Week
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