Meta-links
The following organizations
maintain good lists of links for issues of domestic policy, poverty and
inequality.
The Institute for Research
on Poverty
http://www.irp.wisc.edu/links.htm
The National Poverty Center
http://www.npc.umich.edu/links/
Major
Demographic Sources from Government and International
Organizations
United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP): http://www.undp.org/
US Census Bureau: http://www.census.gov/ [start by clicking the “People &
Household” menu to
get a list of relevant topics by alphabetical order]
Population Reference
Bureau - another useful interface for Census and other data http://www.prb.org/
World Health Organization:
http://www.who.int/en/
Washington State Department of Social and Human Services: http://www.wa.gov/dshs/
Washington State Office of Financial Management, Forecasting Division:
http://www.ofm.wa.gov/forecasting/default.asp (population and criminal justice data)
Washington State Data from the Washington State Institute for Public Policy:
http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/
Nation
Master
- a privately organized interactive interface for CIA World Factbook information:
http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php
National Center for Education Statistics:
http://nces.ed.gov/
National Center for Health Statistics:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
Research Groups
and Centers Who Produce Policy and Demographic Research
Center for Budget and Policy
Priorities [taxation and government spending, left-leaning]: http://www.cbpp.org/
The Urban Institute [a wide
range of social issues including welfare, housing, education, health insurance,
and more] http://www.urban.org/
The Brookings Institute: http://www.brook.edu/
Rand: http://www.rand.org/
University of
Washington
Center
for Studies in Demography
and Ecology [largely international
]: http://csde.washington.edu/
University of Washington West Coast
Poverty Center
University of
Michigan Population Study Center:
http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/pubs/
University of Wisconsin
Institute for Research on Poverty:
http://www.irp.wisc.edu/research.htm
Some Useful Sites
by Topic
(Note: this
section has been compiled from sources that students have found useful for
class assignments.
It is a work
in progress. Please e-mail me with updates or
additions)
Children
CLIKS - KidsCount data at state and county level from the
A.E.Casey Foundation:
http://www.aecf.org/cgi-bin/cliks.cgi?
Child Trends: http://www.childtrends.org/
National Center
for Children in Poverty: http://www.nccp.org/
American Bar Association
Center on Children and the Law:
http://www.connectforkids.org/node/1331
The Clearinghouse on
International Developments in Child, Youth and Family Policies at Columbia
University: http://www.childpolicyintl.org/
Immigrants
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/foreign/for99dtabs.html
This is a series of reports based on CPS data including housing,
employment, income and more.
Characteristics of foreign born residents are presented by citizenship
status, year of entry, and place of birth (i.e. country of origin).
Native Americans
Northwest Area
Foundation - tribal statistics
for Northwestern US http://www.indicators.nwaf.org/
Local and
regional
Northwest Region
http://www.indicators.nwaf.org/ The Northwest Area Foundation
maintains an indicator page with useful poverty information for the Northwest
region. The interface helps guide
you to Census and other government statistics for states, counties, tribes and
reservations in Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho,
Washington, and Oregon.
Washington
State
The Urban Institute tracks welfare reform developments in
Washington state as part of its
research program on “Assessing the New Federalism. ” Reports cover welfare, social services
and health.
http://www.urban.org/Content/Research/NewFederalism/StateFocus/StateFocus.htm#wash
Gays and
lesbians
The National Gay and
Lesbian Task Force library http://www.ngltf.org/library/index.cfm contains reports on how the GLBT
community is counted in surveys and income levels in the community among other
topics (this is an advocacy group)
The Gay and Lesbian Atlas prepared using Census 2000 data
http://www.urban.org/pubs/gayatlas/chapter1.html
Persons with
disabilities
Interagency Committee on Disability Research -
http://www.icdr.us/
Older adults
The Federal Interagency Forum on Aging Related
Statistics
http://agingstats.gov/agingstatsdotnet/main_site/default.aspx
Women
Institute for Women's
Policy Research http://www.iwpr.org/
Health
National
Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/