“This site is the Census Bureau's major access point for Census 2000 data, as well as statistics from the 1990 decennial census, 2004 population estimates, the 1997 and 2002 economic censuses, 2003 Annual Survey of Manufacturers, and the American Community Survey. Although this resource can be overwhelming at first glance, recent changes have made it much friendlier for beginning and general users. Fact Sheet is the easiest way to retrieve data by geographic area. Simply choose a city, county, state, or ZIP code to retrieve a profile of general, social, housing, and economic characteristics.” – Choice

“This organization, under the directorship of William H. Frey, has put together this free, uncomplicated online tool for the study of demographic data. This site allows users to explore demographic trends, copy maps, charts, and tables, and further manipulate the data. CensusScope graphically illustrates issues such as racial diversity, segregation, population growth, educational levels, language diversity, foreign-born residents, and internal migration.” – Choice

“This resource, created by an affiliate of the Fannie Mae Foundation, is designed to serve as a "one-stop source for housing and demographic data" for the US affordable housing industry.” -- Choice

“This free site features data for countries of the world, with an emphasis on population data, arranged according to country, region, and cities; and global data on historical growth, projections, life expectancy, fertility, gender, and urban/rural distribution.” – Choice

“This site offers an invaluable, centralized collection of links to free, official statistics resources. Statistics sites abound, but none are as comprehensive, useful, and well maintained as the University of Auckland Library's OFFSTATS.” – Choice

“The Population Reference Bureau is a national organization that collects, collates, and provides information on world population, health, and the environment. The work conducted by the PRB is funded by government agencies, private foundations, and individuals. Covering such topics as reproductive health and fertility, children and families, population and the environment, and population futures, the PRB Web site includes policy briefs, data sheets, access to the Population Bulletin, a Graphics Bank, educational tools, and the searchable database DataFinder.” – Choice

“The latest online version of the Statistical Abstract (SA) offers several new features, including the use of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and a Google-powered search box. The latter is noteworthy because older online editions were not easily searchable. Excel spreadsheets allow users to easily manipulate data to their liking. The opening screen offers the usual broad categories (Agriculture, Education, Manufactures, and more), from which one drills down to the needed table. Direct links to the most frequently downloaded tables are prominently featured on the main page. These include Income, Population, Births and Deaths, Labor Force, Historical Statistics, and State Rankings.” – Choice

"The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a data-gathering, research, and distribution organization associated with Syracuse University. Its purpose is to provide "comprehensive, independent, and nonpartisan information" about federal immigration enforcement, staffing, and spending. One of eight similar sites, TRAC Immigration is targeted to attorneys, advocates, policy makers, the press, and the public." -- Choice

“This database presents statistical information from 50-plus international data sources, including the World Bank and World Health Organization. Its 400-plus series go back to the 1950s in some cases. Still, UNCDB offers only a sampling of the data available in these organizations' own databases, e.g., only 22 series from the 800-plus available in World Development Indicators (WDI) Online (CH, Sep'04, 42-0432). UNCDB's Basic View search option only allows users to select one series and up to ten countries for comparison.” – Choice

“VassarStats is well put together and user friendly, and covers all basic topics in an introductory statistics course and much more. It can be used in all biological and social sciences statistics courses. It has all necessary tables for determining probabilities for important distributions. Single-variable analysis is presented as well as two-variable analysis. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) are well presented. All important tests and procedures, as well as single and multiple regression and correlation analysis, are easy to understand and use. Data may be retrieved from spreadsheets and analysis can be performed at the touch of a key. Many statistical tests are presented, among which one finds even the chi-square goodness-of-fit test and comparison tests. Even simple logistic regression is nicely presented with graphs and comparisons.” -- Choice

"Located at the US Department of Homeland Security Web site, this database aggregates data tables on foreign nationals who: (1) have been granted lawful permanent residence for being admitted as immigrants or becoming legal permanent residents; (2) have been admitted on a temporary basis (students, workers, tourists); (3) have been granted asylum or refugee status; and (4) are becoming naturalized citizens. Each category is divided into subsets including immigrants' country of origin, type and class of admission, gender, age, marital status, and occupation." -- Choice

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