Statistical data will lend credibility to your research by providing facts and figures supporting your position. Therefore, statistics may be important to include in your class assignments, research papers, and theses. However, statistical data is not always easy to find since there is no single source for this type of information. Statistics may come from scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, reports, websites, books, statistical databases, and more.
When searching, it is important to keep in mind that the precise information you need may not exist; the data may never have been collected. In other cases, data might be held privately; not all data is available to the public. Be flexible and consider alternative measures to support your research.
Often you may obtain statistics from journals, magazines, or newspaper articles on your research topic. Use Galileo to find them!
Quick Tip: You may include the keywords (statistics OR ratio OR proportion OR rate) as part of your search string when using single search engines, as shown below. Additional keywords to consider are prevalence, percentage, numbers, increase, decrease, data, trends, polling, figures, and tables.
Government, agency and organizational websites are a great source of reliable statistical information.
Strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. Provides a collection of surveys, polls, and other data submitted by researchers.
Source of accurate and objective data about the nation's economy.
Provides information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.
Principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. The BLS is an independent national statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates statistical information.
Statistics from the U.S. Department of Transportation are organized by transportation mode, region, or subject. Finding Transportation Statistics provides additional resources for statistics.
Provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically.
Provides statistics on children and families in the U.S. across a range of domains, including family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education and health.
Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.
Find data about the U.S., such as maps and population, demographic, and economic data.
Provides statistical information on citizenship, immigration, FEMA, and more.
Download, graph, and track 765,000 US and international time series from 94 sources.
Provides statistics related to postsecondary education, including admissions, tuition rates, enrollment numbers, demographics of students, and more.
Directory of international statistical agencies provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Includes a wide range of tables, articles, and data that describe and measure elements of the U.S. tax system.
National repository of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States; provides high quality data on nonprofit organizations and their activities.
Fulfills a Congressional mandate to collect, collate, analyze, and report complete statistics on the condition of American education; conduct and publish reports; and review and report on education activities internationally.
Statistics from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
Data on key economic indicators such as GDP, inflation, unemployment, government debt and deficit.
Resources provide State and national statistics on child and family well-being indicators, such as health, child care, education, income, and marriage.
Data on population & housing, economy, and demographics. Easy Stats gives you quick and easy access to selected statistics collected by the U.S. Census Bureau through the American Community Survey.
Responsibilities of this Department include trade, economic development, technology, entrepreneurship and business development, environmental stewardship, and statistical research and analysis.
Provides information and data covering energy production, stocks, demand, imports, exports, and prices.
Authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
Find data about the U.S., such as maps and population, demographic, and economic data.
Mission is to anticipate trends and emerging issues in agriculture, food, the environment, and rural America and to conduct high-quality, objective economic research to inform and enhance public and private decision making.
Conducts hundreds of surveys every year and prepares reports covering virtually every aspect of U.S. agriculture. Production and supplies of food and fiber, prices paid and received by farmers, farm labor and wages, farm finances, chemical use, and changes in the demographics of U.S. producers are only a few examples.
Research lab at William & Mary's Global Research Institute that equips policymakers and practitioners with better evidence to improve how sustainable development investments are targeted, monitored, and evaluated.
Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share them.
Comprehensive collection of South African macroeconomic, industry, trade and regional indicators.
The statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its mission is to provide high quality statistics for Europe.
Provides free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all FAO regional groupings
from 1961 to the most recent year available.
Dedicated to collecting, analysing, interpreting and disseminating food and agriculture statistics that are relevant for decision-making.
World Health Organization's gateway to health-related statistics for more than 1000 indicators.
Takes large data sets and makes them palatable for public consumption, taking numbers, figures and other data and turning them into bar graphs, line graphs, maps and bubbles.
Compiles and produces labor statistics, with the goal of disseminating internationally-comparable datasets through a variety of data tools.
International Monetary Fund Statistical Databases include International Financial Statistics, Direction of Trade Statistics, Government Finance Statistics, and Balance of Payments Statistics.
Leading provider of Information Technology and Communications (ICT) services within the United Nations System.
Find demographic indicators, population pyramids, and source information for countries and areas of the world with a population of 5,000 or more.
Work spans a variety of programs and initiatives, helping ensure energy security, tracking clean energy transitions, collecting data, or providing training around the world.
Provides statistics for international labor market for a range of indicators by country.
Statistical online platform of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development where users can search and access OECD’s statistical databases.
Works on establishing evidence-based international standards and finding solutions to a range of social, economic and environmental challenges.
Provides (in the form of tables, graphs and maps) indicators on export performance, international demand, alternative markets and competitive markets, as well as a directory of importing and exporting companies.
Free access to detailed global trade data. UN Comtrade is a repository of official international trade statistics and relevant analytical tables.
Search a variety of statistical resources compiled by the United Nations (UN) statistical system and other international agencies. Covers a wide range of statistical themes including agriculture, crime, communication, development assistance, education, energy, environment, finance, gender, health, labour market, manufacturing, national accounts, population and migration, science and technology, tourism, transport and trade.
Facilitates greater economic integration and cooperation among its member countries and promotes sustainable development and economic prosperity.
Official and trusted source of internationally-comparable data on education, science, culture and communication. Browse stats by theme, indicator, or country.
Provides online access to different sets of data compiled by the UN Industrial Development Organization. While some data is available for the public, access to all datasets and variables is limited to registered users.
Free and open access to global development data. Browser by indicator to view the Education statistics.
Site gives free and easy access to data provided by International Organisations, such as the World Bank, the United Nations and Eurostat.