Good Statistics Sources

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This page has some sources that can be used to gather statistics. If you find more sources (that have multiple statistics), please add them to the appropriate category below (there are thousands of sources out there). If you add any pages to StatWiki.org, please note it below the source. As necessary, create a page (and place a link below the source) in order to track what has been taken from the source.

Contents 1 Quick Statistics 2 Simple Polls 3 Fairly Quick Statistics 4 Large Studies 5 Other Large Statistics Sources 6 Sources in Excel or Delimited Format

[edit] Quick Statistics

• Pennies
  • http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/24/AR2006092400946.html
  • http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/07/penny_sense.html

• Wikipedia has several links to illegal immigration statistics

• http://www.census.gov/schools/census_for_teens/fun_stats.html

• Bank Failures in 2009
  • It would be nice to have a page called "Bank Failures by Year" with data back at least a couple decades --Blake 00:03, 17 July 2010 (MDT)

• The Telework Coalition - Telework facts
  • Don't do any of the "efficiency" stats, but there are a lot of other good ones on this page --Blake 10:12, 5 August 2010 (MDT)
  • Already added this: Work From Home - Number of People

[edit] Simple Polls

• Pew Latest News polls:
  • http://people-press.org/report/319/public-knowledge-of-current-affairs-little-changed-by-news-and-information-revolutions
  • http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1478/political-iq-quiz-knowledge-filibuster-debt-colbert-steele

• Vanity Fair Poll
  • Food Preferences when Eating Out in the United States has already been done, but there are a few other good ones --Blake 21:04, 1 July 2010 (MST)

• Some Great (and unique) Unemployment Stats from Pew
  • Ran into the study at this MarketWatch article

• CBS Power of 10
  • All of these have been added, but still need to fix some of the sources and sort in the category assignments--Blake 18:16, 9 July 2010 (MDT)
  • Also would be nice to add the tables of demographic splits at some point--Blake 22:18, 16 July 2010 (MDT)

• American Express has a "Spending and Saving Tracker" that they publish monthly
  • An example can be found here: http://home3.americanexpress.com/corp/pc/2010/mtc.asp
  • Other months can be found in the "About Us" section of the American Express Website
  • Be careful with these -- some are very temporary, so they must be accompanied by a date (which should always be the case) or not used

• Society for Human Resource Management - Survey Findings

[edit] Fairly Quick Statistics

• There was more information available for ACHD Among Adults and Effect on Marriage at this page: The Prevalence and Correlates of Adult ADHD in the United States: Results From the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, but I didn't have time to add it all --Blake 08:27, 23 July 2010 (MDT)
  • The tables break out the data in different ways and need to be added still

• Who Gains and Who Loses from Credit Card Payments? Theory and Calibrations
  • A few nice tables starting on page 8
  • Already created one page based on the findings: Credit Card Implicit Monetary Transfer

• Guns in America: National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms
  • Relatively brief pdf on gun ownership (12 pages)
  • Already completed through page 5 in the 3 articles below --Blake 22:17, 16 July 2010 (MDT)
    • Stock of Guns in the US in 1994 (may want to split this between stock of guns and gun characteristics) --Blake 22:17, 16 July 2010 (MDT)
    • Recreational Use of Firearms in the US in 1994
    • Gun Ownership in the US in 1994 - Prevalence

• http://stats.org/

• Drunk Driving
  • http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html
  • http://www.madd.org/About-Us/About-Us/Statistics.aspx
  • http://www.centurycouncil.org/learn-the-facts/drunk-driving-stats
  • http://www.sadd.org/stats.htm

• Internet Usage Statistics

• Suicide
  • http://www.suicidology.org/web/guest/stats-and-tools/statistics
  • http://www.cdc.gov/ViolencePrevention/suicide/statistics/index.html
  • http://www.suicide.org/suicide-statistics.html

• Depression
  • http://www.upliftprogram.com/depression_stats.html
  • http://www.depressionstatistics.org/
  • http://www.depressionhelpspot.com/depression_statistics.html

• Child Abuse
  • http://www.childhelp.org/pages/statistics
  • http://pediatrics.about.com/od/childabuse/a/05_abuse_stats.htm
  • http://www.childwelfare.gov/systemwide/statistics/can.cfm

• Baby Name Statistics

[edit] Large Studies

• Pew Report: Home Broadband 2010

• The National Marriage Project, marriage statistics
  • Already added Infidelity During Marriage and Divorce Rates, although Divorce Rates is missing several years and could also be updated with monthly data

• Expenditures on Children by Families, 2009
  • This article from MarketWatch summarizes some of the stats, but it would be better to include more and more thorough statistics

• Child Poverty Persistence

• US Religious Landscape Survey (Pew)

• Report on obesity in America

• US Teenage Pregnancies, Births, and Abortions

[edit] Other Large Statistics Sources

• American Bankruptcy Institute (Bankruptcy Statistics)

• IRS Tax Statistics, Including Percentage of Taxes Payed by Marginal Rate

• Electricity Data (Prices and Output/Consumption)
  • http://www.eia.doe.gov/fuelelectric.html
  • http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_3.html
  • http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/electricityprice.html

• http://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/releases/statisticsdata.htm

• http://www.modot.mo.gov/safety/trafficaccidentstatistics.htm

• http://www.ici.org/research#statistics

• http://www.fedstats.gov/cgi-bin/A2Z.cgi

[edit] Sources in Excel or Delimited Format

These sources provide data in Excel or delimited format (like CSV or other); thus, they can be imported into statwiki relatively easily (using the Table Creator).

• US Census Bureau Download Center