Second Moment: Resource Links: Statistical Data on the Net

"Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." - Aaron Levenstein

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.doe.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

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