Finding Statistical Information: Websites

You can use Google Advanced Search to limit your search results in various ways, including:
- Searching for a complete phrase
- Omitting irrelevant words
- Choosing a domain, like .edu, to limit to webpages from educational institutions
- Limiting to pages updated during a certain timeframe

Our Finding Credible Web Sources guide has more tips on searching the Internet.

Published by the U.S. Census Bureau, this site helps you find current population, housing, economic, and geographic data in the United States. The website is comprehensive and easy to use. Results from data programs are provided in the form of data sets, tables, thematic maps, and reference maps.

What are the best datasets for machine learning? After scraping the web hours after hours, we have created a great cheat sheet for high quality, and diverse machine learning datasets.

A list of individual and repositories of datasets.

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data, where you can find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

HUD USER provides interested researchers with access to the original electronic data sets generated by PD&R sponsored data collection efforts, including the American Housing Survey, HUD median family income limits, as well as microdata from research initiatives on topics such as housing discrimination, the HUD-insured multifamily housing stock, and the public housing population.

Google Advanced Search (link above) also allows you to limit to file type .xls, which can help you find spreadsheets of data.

A list of repositories and databases for open data hosted by the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College and supervised by an independent editorial board.

A nonpartisan source of facts about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. The Pew Research Center’s Pew Internet & American Life Project conducts surveys that examine how Americans use the internet and how their activities affect their lives.

Links from Carnegie Mellon to a data lists organized by subject.

This guide lists the websites of major government agencies and some private organizations where you can find online searchable databases and other statistical information on different subjects.

WHO's health-related statistics for more than 1000 indicators for its 194 Member States.

Published by the U.S. Census Bureau, this site helps you find current population, housing, economic, and geographic data in the United States. The website is comprehensive and easy to use. Data topics and geographic area coverage available: Results from each of these data programs are provided in the form of data sets, tables, thematic maps, and reference maps.

The official website of the United States Government

Information about consumer spending, corporate profits, GDP, income, industry accounts, investing, and trade.

The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.

Links to statistical sites from around the world, as well as US federal agencies.

Statistical information on topics such as economics, demographics, environment, and energy.

Provides free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe. Topics include Agriculture, Health, Poverty, Economy, Education, Energy, Science & Technology, Environment, Development, Trade, Gender, and others.

A large central data source and good way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is compiles data from sources like the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD.

Includes current domestic and international population issues and trends. Written for a general audience by noted experts, presenting population topics in clear and objective text with colorful graphics.

Assembled by UCSD Library. A great set of links to data sources listed by topic, including art and culture, beverages and food, California, crime, demographics and population, aging, children and families, migration and immigration, race and ethnicity, religion, gender and sexuality, and more.

Offers data on a wide range of topics and from a broad range of international statistical resources, with "information on globalisation, sustainability and human development. Focusing on the economic, environmental, political, social, societal and cultural performance of nations."

From Van Eck Computer Consulting, at the University of Michigan, the Decision Tree "helps select statistics or statistical techniques appropriate for the purpose and conditions of a particular analysis and to select the MicrOsiris commands which produce them or find the corresponding SPSS and SAS commands."