Statistical Sources: Government

Part of the US Census Bureau site, but can narrow down trends to a specific community (your town).

Provides links to the main U.S. Federal Statistical Agencies, state labor market statistics, and National Statistical Agencies for other countries

Federal agency statistics on children and families in the US.

The purpose of the Disability Statistics Center is to produce and disseminate statistical information on disability and the status of people with disabilities in American society and to establish and monitor indicators about how conditions are changing over time to meet their health, housing, economic and social needs.

Provides statistics from over 100 government agencies. Options for searching are to use: the Topics A-Z for a listing of topics, sort by geographical area, sort by eBooks, or by the specific agency.

From the Dept. of Homeland Security- Related Resources (links out) on the right sidebar show more immigrant related sites for statistics.

From the Census Bureau, this links to other government information on various topics related to population statistics.

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) - the primary source for cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories

An open source aggregator of international arms expenditures and information.

Analytical national accounts tables from 1970 onwards for more than 200 countries and areas of the world- Go to "data availability" then "snapshot."

GREAT! This site allows you to narrow your search in so many ways: use the left hand bar to narrow to MA, and center to crops to get the most recent collected statistics available.
Info. on the prices, loans, demographics, commodity stocks and yields, environmental concerns, and impacts, land use and education or crops and livestock. Census of agriculture every 5 yrs is here.

Elementary, secondary, higher-ed, adult, and continuing are all covered. Extensive information here on education data.

(International) Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has a large breadth of data and research.

UNdata contains more than 60 million records from various UN groups (UNESCO, UNHCR, Food and Agriculture Organization, World Health Organization). Users can use the keyword search, view country profiles, limit results to specific UN organizations, and explore popular topics (population, crime, health): Get worldwide info, e.g. internet use.

Information on people, households, economic indicators, foreign trade, education, religion, and other specifics.

From the CIA, information on all countries.

Use the search box and connect terms with "AND" or "OR". Results listed are articles and surveys including statistical information on the topic you searched. Example search: depression AND Nicaragua. This resulted in 745 related articles. Click on any one of them to retrieve your article.

A service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) it provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government, such as the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Congressional Record, Congressional bills, Congressional hearings and reports, and laws.

Publication from the FBI

Compiled through FBI program; customizable searches

Jackpot of data and stats on crime and criminal justice!

Can search crime on Assumption for past three years as required to report through the
"Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act. "

"Generates reliable statistics for use in law enforcement. It also provides information for students of criminal justice, researchers, the media, and the public. The program has been providing crime statistics since 1930"--website.

Gun Violence Archive (GVA) is a not for profit corporation formed in 2013 to provide free online public access to accurate information about gun-related violence in the United States.

Crowd sourced data on police violence from three databases in the U.S since 2013. Source data available in Excel format.

he Violence Prevention Project is dedicated to reducing violence through research that is both accessible and actionable. We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit research center located at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Locate inmate statistics, population statistics, or staff statistics.

Statistics of campus crimes by institution.

Fantastic resource to inform police executives response to a variety of critical issues; great for researchers to find police responses/issues.

Click on the map to get some of the available data.

On the left-most sidebar, go to "cities and towns" and select your town of interest. Listing of all resources (government) of access in the town.

has exactly what you'd expect: data of health concern for MA

Also provides Health stats for MA.

Can compare states, according to customizations set by the user. Can download results to excel files. Dates range from 2002-2012.

From Harvard University, this site's focus is "describing over 100 measures of diversity, opportunity, and quality of life for 362 metropolitan areas."