United States Government Information by Subject: Data & Statistics

Children and families

The Bureau's portal to the most current data from various surveys, including the American Community Survey (2010-current), the Decennial Census (2010), the Economic Census (2012; 2017). The 2000 Decennial Census will be loaded by June 2020. (Replaces American FactFinder.)

Search for open data, primarily from federal agencies, also including some state, local, and tribal government data.

Includes quick links to U.S. Census data--including states and counties, maps, and a list of federal agencies that produce statistics.

published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Paper copies of the Statistical Abstract are also available in the libraries (HA 202)

Annual reports that present detailed vital statistics data, including natality, mortality, marriage and divorce.

access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages

information from all three branches of the Federal Government, especially legislative

U.S. federal legislative information

text data mining

social, behavioral, and health sciences research data

search on topic and "open data" or "data portal"