Research Guides: Data & Statistics: Data & Statistics Sources (State, Regional & Local)

Strategy For Finding Data.

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.

Statistical Compendia

Statistical Abstracts
Historical Statistical abstracts 1878 -
Statistical Abstracts/State Abstracts
Links to Statistical Abstracts from all the states

Statistical Abstracts of the United States This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Discover statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States published by the US Census Bureau.
Content type: Data, Statistics
Coverage dates: 1889-2012
Language: English
Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Explore statistics from nearly every aspect of U.S. History, including such areas as population, work, economic performance, governance, and international relations.
Content type: Statistics, data, tables, reference materials
Coverage dates: 1770-2000
Tables downloadable in Excel files. Users can also create custom tables, which can be downloaded, printed, or graphed.
Language: English

General Indexes for Statistics

Sage Data This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Gateway to billions of datapoints from a range of organizations with valuable tools to help interpret and visualize selected data sets.
Content type: Data
Coverage dates: 1948-present
Language: English
Keywords: Data Planet Insight
ICPSR Data Archive This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Access data in various downloadable formats from a broad range of social science fields.
Content type: Data
Special Note: Some content requires an individual user account.
Language: English
Keywords: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

National League of Cities
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.
Data.gov
Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.
Google Datasets

California State Agency Links

California Department of Finance
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.
California Department of Education Data & Statistics
Provides data on education and schools in the state.
California Department of Health Care Services
Data & statistics on health care services
California Department of Public Health
Data on public health.
California Department of Justice. Criminal Justice Statistics Center
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.
California Department of State Voter Registration Statistics
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.
California Secretary of State Statewide Election Results
Statewide election results back to 1990.
Environmental Protection Indicators for California (EPIC)
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 environments.

Local Government Statistical Sources

Los Angeles County CA Violent Crime Rates and Maps
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.
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Crime and Arrest Statistics
Crime and Arrest Statistics for the previous 2 years.

Statistical Sets

Datasets w/Software Interfaces

Public Policy Institute of California
Data gathered on California and Californians.
Data gathered on California and Californians.
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.