Sociology and Social Work: Statistical Sources

The Center files, stores, and issues certified copies of vital records including birth, death, marriage and divorce certificates for events that occur in Alabama

Brief summary of Alabama data from the U.S. Census

The ASDC monitors development trends, analyzes social, economic, and other characteristics, and makes available population, housing, employment, labor force, and income data, which provide a baseline for planning growth and development.

Provides census and economic data for Alabama.

DataCatalogs.org aims to be the most comprehensive list of open data catalogs in the world.

Visual data analysis tool using economic indicators from across the world

VassarStats is an online basic statistical package with some background notes. As analyses involves you typing data into a website, only analyses of small data sets are recommended.

Source for population, housing, economic, and geographic information from the US Census Bureau

The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy.

This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books.

CPANDA, the Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive, is the world's first interactive digital archive of policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the United States.

Research statistics on children and families, crime and justice, economic indicators, and more.

FedStats provides easy access to statistics and information produced by more than 100 U.S. Federal Government agencies.

The GSS is the largest project funded by the Sociology Program of the National Science Foundation. Except for the U.S. Census, the GSS is the most frequently analyzed source of information in the social sciences.

The GSS contains a standard ‘core’ of demographic and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

NORC’s mission is to conduct high-quality social science research in the public interest.

The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.

The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.

The Data Catalog provides download access to over 8,000 indicators from World Bank data sets.

Eurostat is a statistical unit of the EU whose mission "is to provide the European Union with a high-quality statistical information service."

The OFFSTATS database provides access to free statistics from official sources on the web. Some specialised databases are only available to the University of Auckland staff and students.

Statistics Canada produces statistics that help Canadians better understand their country—its population, resources, economy, society and culture.

This portal combines 15 databases and 55 million records from different UN agencies, with more sets anticipated in the future.