Statistics Sources
- Policy Map This link opens in a new window Easy-to-use online mapping and visualization tool. Downloadable U.S. demographic, economic and social data by city, state, zip code, county or census tract. Types of data include crime, housing, health, education and occupations, derived from both public and proprietary sources.
- EUROSTATOfficial publication of the European Community providing summary data collected through all agencies.
- International Statistical Agencies (U.S.Census)Listed alphabetically by country.
- ICPSR - Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social ResearchArchive of social science data covering a range of subject areas including population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, crime, aging, and substance abuse.
- UN DataA few specific UN statistical categories (linked titles to comparable UN online content):
- Statistical Yearbook. – XHA 42 F49
- Demographic Yearbook – XHA 17 F49
- Yearbook of National Account Statistics – XHC 79 I5 F57
- International trade statistics yearbook – XHF 53 F63
- Energy statistics yearbook – Pardee XHD 9502 A1 W6
- Census Knowledge Base
- Population and Vital Statistics on Internet
- American National Election Studies ANES. Data on voting, public opinion, and political participation
- Budget of the United States Government. 1950-.Pardee XHJ 2051 A59 NOTE: The Appendix, which contains all the summary statistical tables, is also available at Mugar Memorial Library in the Reference collection [XHJ 2051 A59].
Available to BU with a BPL log in (get an eCard here):
- Statistical InsightIndexes U.S. Federal statistics (1973-present), state government and business statistics (1980-present), and international statistics (1880-present). Full-text coverage: 2004-present (U.S. Federal), 2007-present (state, business, international).
IR: Data Sets
Statistical Software @ BU
- Policy Map This link opens in a new window Easy-to-use online mapping and visualization tool. Downloadable U.S. demographic, economic and social data by city, state, zip code, county or census tract. Types of data include crime, housing, health, education and occupations, derived from both public and proprietary sources.
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BU IS&T negotiates licenses for several statistical programs used throughout the University, and provides support for these programs.
- JMP dynamically links statistics with graphics to interactively explore, understand, and visualize data. It can work with a variety of data formats, such as text files, Microsoft Excel files, SAS data sets and ODBC-compliant databases.
- Statistical Analysis System (SAS) is a very popular statistical package that can be used for data management, report writing, statistical analysis, and graphics.
- SPSS is the current name for the complete portfolio of SPSS Predictive Analytics products.
