General

CI Gateway
CapitolImpact.com is your point of access to literally thousands of pages containing government and political information. Whether you are looking for a schools in your area, your local representatives or information from the EPA about your area, it's all here.

NACo About Counties
NACo collects information on counties, such as county officials, courthouse addresses, county seats, cities in a county.

Nationmaster.com
A massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. You can generate maps and graphs with ease on all kinds of statistics. You can select exactly which countries you want to include.

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Agriculture

USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
The National Agricultural Statistics Service provides timely, accurate, and useful statistics in service to U.S. agriculture.

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Education

National Center for Educational Statistics
The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

U.S. Department of Education
Includes numerous valuable links, including federal (title IV) school codes, college loan information and applications online, searchable Eric Digests and a school district locator.

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Employment

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Click on "data" then "most requested series" for selected U.S. and regional statistics on employment and unemployment, productivity, consumer and other price indexes and compensation. Includes link to the International price indexes home page. Click on "regional information" for quick access to New York and Philadelphia area statistics.

Fedstats: One Stop Shopping for Federal Statistics
Searchable index to over 70 U.S. government agencies collecting and providing statistics of all kinds. Title, keywords and full text searching available, in addition to browsing by agency.

Labor Market Information
In this section you'll find the most up-to-date information available about New Jersey's workers, wages, jobs and careers, employment and industries, trends and projections, economy and demographics, and more.

Occupational Outlook Handbook Online
Online version of this standard source, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Updated every 2 years, it describes what workers do on the job, working conditions, training and education needed, earnings and expected job prospects for a wide range of occupations.

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Health

National Center for Health Statistics
The intent of this site is to provide users access to the health information that NCHS produces. Users can browse the publications and statistical tables, download selected public-use data files, conduct on-line database queries and searches in Wonder, track progress toward Healthy People 2000 Objectives, or access FASTATS from A-Z. The site also contains information about each NCHS survey and data system, special programs and activities, upcoming seminars, conferences and training, as well as links to other sites.

State Health Facts Online
Discloses important health and health policy information for all fifty states and US territories. Data are divided into ten categories -- demographics and the economy, health status, health coverage and uninsured, medicaid and CHIP, medicare, health costs and budgets, managed care and health insurance, providers and service use, women's health, minority health, and HIV/ AIDS -- and are displayed as tables, rankings, graphs, or color-coded maps. Users may access individual state profiles and then compare them to other states, or the US as a whole. 

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Population and Census Statistics

American FactFinder
This is resource is great for locating statistical information based upon geographic location in the United States. Site maintained by the Census Bureau. Links to population, economic and industry indicators, profiles for local communities and more.

Background Notes
Background Notes provide information on geographic entities and international organizations and are updated periodically. Site maintained by the United States State Department. Browse by country or region.

Census 2000
Need more information on the Census for the year 2000?  Locate it on this site.

Census 2010
Need more information on the Census for the year 2010?  Locate it on this site.

CensusScope
An easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic trends, brought to you by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) at the University of Michigan. With eye-catching graphics and exportable trend data, CensusScope is designed for generalists and specialists.

GeoHive
Statistics on the human population and Earth in general: the population of regions, countries, provinces and cities. There are some statistics on economic factors like wealth, infrastructure and more.

Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas
Site maintained by the Census Bureau.

Nationmaster.com
A handy way to graphically compare nations. Generate graphs with ease on all kinds of statistics and select exactly which countries you want to include.

New Jersey Census Information
Population, demographic and housing information.

Population Index
Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers and other materials on population topics. This website provides a searchable and browsable database containing 42,662 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-1999.

State Data Centers
This site provides links to state data centers for all 50 states in the U.S. Since 1978, the State Data Center (SDC) Program has provided training and technical assistance in accessing and using census data for research, administration, planning and decision making by the government, the business community, university researchers and other interested data users. The Business and Industry Data Center (BIDC) Program, initiated in 1988, supports the business community by expanding SDC services to government, academic and non-profit organizations that directly serve businesses.

Statistical Abstracts of The United States 
While the full blown version of Statistical Abstracts of the United States is not accessible on the net, the Census Bureau has provided online access to state rankings for multiple statistics.

U.S. Census Bureau
Includes results of census of population and housing and of state and local governments, U.S. foreign trade, population projections and estimates, current manufacturing reports, historical census data and international statistics. Provides prices for Census Bureau data products in various formats. Click on the American Fact Finder tab for community facts, maps and industry and business facts.

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Statistics
This site is an excellent jump start for locating statistics maintained by government institutions and statistical research groups from around the world.  Additional links to the Statistics Departments at most major colleges and universities, statistics journals, mailing lists and statistical servers.  Great resource for anyone who is taking Statistics.

World Fact Book of Criminal Justice Systems
This fact book provides narrative descriptions of the criminal justice systems of 42 countries around the world.

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Updated 2/14/12