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Ask the question: What organization or agency would likely collect this data?
Government Agencies? Government Agencies collect data at all levels to aid policy decisions. It is generally distributed free via the internet. Organizations ? Larger data sets are generally available in SPSS, Excel, SAS or Stata formats.
1889 - 2012. Statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. 1400+ individually indexed tables (with attached spreadsheets).
Statistics on population, work, health, education, elections, industry, and economics. Some back to 1790, up through 2004. Most data updated by the Census Bureau web site. Can create custom tables which can also be downloaded, printed, or graphed.
Repository of over 35 billion datapoints from over 450 databases sourced from 70 public and private organizations. Searchable by keyword, subject and source. The datasets permit correlation of multiple, diverse indicators, with tools to interpret and visualize the data. Data available from 1948 - present.
A data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences.
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This site provides comparative U.S. state statistics on a variety of topics. In many cases, statistics can also be displayed as bar graphs, charts, or maps.
NLC provides evidence-based research and analysis that draws upon the experiences and observations of city leaders to help frame and evaluate research agendas. Research reports and briefs provide city leaders with in-depth analysis based upon a variety of research methodologies on current and emerging issues affecting cities and towns.
The Demographic Research Unit is designated as the single official source of demographic data for state planning and budgeting.
The Economic and Financial Research Unit prepares economic forecasts and analyses of various economic developments, advises state departments and local government agencies, and provides economic information to the general public.
This site contains crime data submitted by county and local law enforcement agencies, as well as current and historical publications on crime, juvenile justice, homicide, and hate crimes in California.
The interactive Criminal Justice Profiles create web-based presentations of data. This feature gives users more flexibility to tailor data tables to their specific inquiry. Additionally, datasets with the past 10 years of arrest and crime data are now downloadable. Check back in the future for more interactive databases.
Report of Registration detailing voter registration levels throughout California at specific times prior to each statewide election and once during odd numbered years. Back to 1999.
The Environmental Protection Indicators for California (EPIC) project is a collaborative effort of the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA), the Resources Agency, the Department of Health Services, and an external advisory group consisting of representatives from business, public interest groups, academia, and local government. The project, led by Cal/EPA's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), is responsible for developing and maintaining a set of "environmen
The Sheriff makes crime data for Part 1 and Part 2 crimes available for download from this site: http://www.lasdhq.org/sites/CAASS/desc.html.
There are two sets of files: the last 30 days of data, as well as historical yearly data files for 2007 – 2011.
The actual locations have been slightly moved in order to de-identify specific locations – addresses and locations are now in the block range but not at the house.
This data covers areas of the Sheriff’s jurisdiction – which is not the entire County (for example, Los Angeles Police Department – LAPD – crime data is not included). But it is still a very large set of data.
Data sets with easy to use software. Covers General Social Survey, Election surveys, American Community Census, California Census, Racial Attitudes and Prejudices, and Labor and Health.
