Selected Statistical Resources

Federal Government Sources

• AHRQ Data and Surveys (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
• American FactFinder (U.S. Census Bureau)
• 2000 Census Data (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S. Department of Labor)
• Census State Data Centers (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Current Research Information System (CRIS)This USDA Research Database contains the information on ongoing and recently completed projects sponsored or conducted primarily within the USDA and State university research system. The database also includes projects on human nutrition research of the Federal agencies.
• FEDSTATS is the place to start for federal health-related statistical information.
• HCUPnet is an online statistical tool created as a part of the Health Care Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), an initiative of the US Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR). HCUPnet allows users to generate customized statistical reports in order to identify, analyze, and track national data on "hospital utilization, access, charges, quality and outcomes."
• Medicaid/Medicare Statistics (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
• MMWR Weekly Reports is a weekly listing of all deaths for 121 selected cities, as well as noticeable diseases for the nation. Includes annual survey. Hyattsville, MD, National Center for Health Statistics.
• National Health Expenditure Data—measures spending for health care in the U.S. by type of service delivered (hospital care, physician services, nursing home care, etc.) and source of funding for those services (private health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, out-of-pocket spending, etc.). Developed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formerly the Health Care Financing Administration).
• National Center for Health Statistics (Center for Disease Control)
• The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics
• National Safety Council Research & Statistical Services
• OSHA Statistics & Data (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
• Statistical Abstract of the United States (U.S. Census Bureau)
• Statistical Agencies - International (U.S. Census Bureau)

Current Index to Statistics Most current edition. Updated yearly. Indexes all articles from about 111 core journals and selected articles from about 1,200 additional journals and about 11,000 books in statistics published since 1975.

Datasets (Univ. of Connecticut Health Center, Lyman Maynard Stowe Library)

Health Data Tools and Statistics (Partners in Health Information Access to Public Health Professionals)

International Statistics

• LexisNexis Statistical
• FAOSTAT is an on-line, multilingual database currently containing more than 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: Food Balance Sheets, Food Aid Shipments, and Population.
• OECD - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
• United Nations Statistics Division
• WHOSIS (World Health Organization Statistical Information System)

ICPSR Data Archive The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), located within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization serving member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. ICPSR provides access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data.

Social Science Data on the Internet - Database of data archives worldwide.

LexisNexis Statistical - Provides indexing and abstracts for federal, state, and international statistical publications as well as selected business and professional publications containing statistics. Approximately 20% of the federal statistical publications are available in full text.

Statistics and Demographic Databases

Texas and Regional Sources

• Center for Health Statistics (Texas Dept. of State Health Services)
• CHARTing Health Information for Texas (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health)
• Demographic and Socioeconomic Statistics/Indicators (Texas Health & Human Services Commission)
• State Health Facts Online (Kaiser Family Foundation)
• Texas Health Care Information Collection (Center for Health Statistics, Texas Dept. of State Health Services)
• Texas State Data Center and Office of the State Demographer
• Vital Statistics, Health Data, Demographics & Health Status (Texas Dept. of State Health Services)

University of Michigan's Guide to Statistical Resources on the Web An excellent resource that puts literally everything at your desktop. The Documents Center's web pages are clustered by broad subject area, such as Foreign or Statistics, in order to facilitate research.

Guide to Statistics on the Web (UT Austin)

The University of Texas School of Public Health Library maintains an excellent page that has links to sources of Texas, federal, international, and NGO statistics. Click on Health Data.

World Health Statistics Annual. Annuaire de statistiques sanitaires mondiales
CURRENTLY RECEIVED IN PCL Reference Dept- Issues for 1962- in 3 v.: Vital statistics and causes of death; Infectious diseases: cases, deaths, and vaccinations; and Health personnel and hospital establishments.