Economic & Demographic Data
Worldwide
- Area Handbooks
- A continuing series of books prepared by the Federal Research Division
of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program
sponsored by the Department of the Army. This online series presently
contains studies of 85 countries.
- CIA
World Factbook
- Provides data and maps for nations worldwide. Topics covered
include geography, demography, government, economy, transportation,
communications, and defense.
- InfoNation
- Allows you to display selected data on up to seven countries
simultaneously.
- UNICEF Statistics
- Either browse data by country or map indicators worldwide. Infant and
maternal mortality, education, literacy, sanitation, and immunization are
among the data elements presented. Links to other UNICEF publications
online provided, e.g. State of the World's Children.
- Foreign Labor
Statistics
- Compare rates of employment, compensation, productivity, unemployment,
consumer prices, and more in countries worldwide.
- International
Data Base
- Provides demographic and socioeconomic data for nations worldwide.
Maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau.
- State of World
Population 1997
- Reproductive rights are the focus of the 1997 edition of this annual
report. A summary is online. The full text of the 1996 edition is
available online, with a discussion of world urbanization and population
issues.
- FAOSTAT
- Country data on land use, crop production, means of production, trade,
food aid, as well as fishery and forestry data.
- Trends in
Developing Countries
- Topical and country reports available through an experimental web
interface.
- World
Development Report
- Selected indicators about social and economic development from this
annual volume are provided online. The complete volume and statistical
appendix is available in Government Publications, 1st floor, Suzzallo
Library.
- Social
Indicators of Development
- "The World Bank's most detailed data collection for assessing human
welfare to provide a picture of the social effects of economic
development. Data are presented for over 170 economies, omitting only
those for which data are inadequate . . . Up to 94 indicators are reported
for each country including: size, growth, and structure of population;
determinants of population growth (including data on fertility and infant
mortality); labor force; education and illiteracy; natural resources;
income and poverty; expenditure on food, housing, fuel and power,
transport and communication; and investment in medical care and education.
Each of these indicators is broken into several subcategories."
- International
Organizations
- A compilation of web sites for intergovernmental organizations,
foreign national governments, and non-governmental activist organizations
maintained by the UW Libraries' Government Publications staff. Excellent
guides available, including the UN Scholar's workstation compiled at Yale.
United States
- U.S. Census Bureau
- Provides a wealth of demographic and economic data. The1990 Census Lookup allows
you to get social and economic data about the population for geographic
areas ranging from the U.S. as a whole, to states, counties, cities, and
census tracts. Step-by-step
instructions are available (this link will open a second window of the
browser. Resize the window to read the instructions as you work through
the data lookup process.)
- County
Business Patterns
- Provides an annual economic profile of counties, states, and the
United States. Data include employment, payroll, and number of
establishments by industry.
- STAT-USA
- The U.S. Dept. of Commerce's central resource for economic news and
trade data. Daily press releases of economic indicators, data series for
some pre-1998 time periods, and research about product markets in other
countries. [available to UW users only]
- Fedstats
- Provides access to data from more than 70 federal agencies. Easy to
navigate to find regional
data or data by topic.
- Government Information Sharing
Project
- Provided by Oregon State University provides acces to several data
sets including USA Counties, Regional Economic Information System,
Economic Censuses, and more. The Bureau of Economic Analysis'
REIS is also available in a searchable format from the University of
Virginia.
- Statistical
Universe is very helpful if you are not sure where the data you need
might be published. An index to statistical publications published
by state and federal government agencies, international governmental
organizations, and private research organizations.
Searching the Web
- Yahoo
- A subject guide to the Web
- Dogpile
- A meta-engine, which searches several individual web search tools
simultaneously.
- Alta Vista
- Very big.
- UW List of Web
Tools
- Several additional options.
Citing Electronic Resources
Electronic Styles: a
handbook for citing electronic information
Uncle Sam - Brief
guide to citing govenment publications, from University of Memphis
library
Guide to citing
government information sources - MLA style, from University Nevada,
Reno Library.
Compiled by Anne Zald,
Geography/UWired
Librarian
University of Washington Libraries
updated 1/18/99