Public Affairs

Statista provides statistical data from thousands of institutions and sources. It provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government agencies.

Statista includes data on more than 85,000 topics from 18,000 sources. About 20 percent of the total data in Statista comes from sources available free online, such as the World Bank and the U.S. Census, but the data also includes numerous exclusive sources which include industry, marketing, and trade groups. Much of the data is related to marketing, demographic, government and industry information, and is international in scope. Data can be downloaded in JPG, PowerPoint and Excel.

While historical and time series data are not a focus of Statista, the metadata about each table provides all the necessary information to go to the table’s source, where historical information may be available.

ICPSR is the world's largest archive of computer readable social science data, containing more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields. Available data can be browsed by topic or searched.

For assistance see the ICPSR Data User Help Center, which contains audio/visual tutorials and webinars. Locally, The Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation provides campus-wide statistical consulting services. For assistance with a specific software package see the Division's software FAQs.

Updated yearly. Indexes all articles from about 160 core journals and selected articles from about 1,200 additional journals and about 11,000 books in statistics published since 1975.

Updated regularly. Provides easy access to historical census data for the United States. Allows users to visually analyze and understand the demography of any part of the United States with access to the following:

• Interactive thematic maps of historical census data
• Customized reports for any chosen area or areas (including aggregates)
• Complete coverage of the United States, down to neighborhoods and streets
• Simple navigation buttons and a find tool make it easy and efficient to study neighborhoods

Users can examine geographic areas while selecting the type of data to be shown, such as population density or income level. The corresponding data tables are also available.