Government Statistics Sources

U.S. Government Statistics Sources

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General Statistics

Economic Statistics

Census Bureau Economic Indicators (from 1995 via FDSys)

Fedstats Federal Reserve System

FASTATS A-Z (health & vital stats) Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

Community Information by Zip Code (from Cal State Northridge Library) Trade Stats Express

Local Census (data by city, state, zip code) St. Louis Federal Reserve databases: FRED (Fed. Reserve Econ. Data) • FRASER (Fed. Reserve Archival System Economic Research)

STAT-USA is going away at the end of September, 2010.
The nice folks at the Univ. of Central Florida Library have compiled this listing of Stat-USA sources so that you can get to most of the orginal sources.

The Government Documents Roundtable (GODORT) of the American Library Association presents this tutorial on government statistics, with information about how they are gathered and organized, as well as links to sources of data.

To find libraries and other organizations with good statistics information pages, see "Statistics" on the "S" page of our Web Subject Index.

Alternate sites for Country Commercial Guides and other Stat-USA Information:

Market Research Library (from U.S. Commercial Service, a componen of the International Trade Administration)
NTDB Guide (this site, put together at the Univ. of Minnesota, lists component publications from the defunct National Trade Data Bank CDs and gives links to their current locations)
Tradeport (this is from a consortium of business organizations in California; it has much additional trade-related information)

Author: Kathleen L. Amen • Email: kamen@stmarytx.edu
URL: http://library.stmarytx.edu/acadlib/doc/us/stats.htm
Created 1998 • Last updated • links checked February, 2009

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General Statistics	Economic Statistics
Census Bureau	Economic Indicators (from 1995 via FDSys)
Fedstats	Federal Reserve System
FASTATS A-Z (health & vital stats)	Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Community Information by Zip Code (from Cal State Northridge Library)	Trade Stats Express
Local Census (data by city, state, zip code)	St. Louis Federal Reserve databases: FRED (Fed. Reserve Econ. Data) • FRASER (Fed. Reserve Archival System Economic Research)
STAT-USA is going away at the end of September, 2010. The nice folks at the Univ. of Central Florida Library have compiled this listing of Stat-USA sources so that you can get to most of the orginal sources.