Statistical Sources: Health/Social Issues

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.

Uses stats from various agencies to compile data.

Links to a variety of statistics including women in the workplace, Hispanic female executives, labor force, percentage of unemployed persons by country, corporate boards, and more.

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

Law reform, national security, gender, technology, voting, immigrant, prisoner, racial, women issues and many more.
ie: civil forfeiture, immigration enforcement, etc.

Enforces laws prohibiting job discrimination and provides oversight and coordination of all federal equal employment opportunity regulations, practices, and policies.

Pew Research Center- issues, affiliations, practice, maps, and more.

From the Association of Religion Data Archives, includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations). The collection consists of individual surveys covering various groups and topics.

Select your state on the left sidebar.

Comprehensive and varied list of statistics collected by the government.

Use the A-Z list- AWESOME amount of data.

Most commonly accessed stats

Build, download and share custom tables, graphs and maps utilizing data on key sexual and reproductive health indicators from the Guttmacher Institute and other trusted sources. Abortion statistics.

OECD- Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development: infant death, disease, dental health, cancer, morbidity, and more.

The WHO is "the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends." Hence: Authoritative.

Run by the CDC, this has info on A-Z topics and more.

Unicef is advocate for children and health, so topics here align: child mortality rates, nutrition, health, education, demographics, protection, disparities and much more. Can access their yearly publication: The State of the World’s Children.

The complete report.

Research gathered on the subject of happiness. There are data sets, literature reviews, studies, approaches, and on, in this discipline. Great for Psychology interests!

Over 3,000 datasets. This information includes clinical care provider quality information, nationwide health service provider directories, databases of the latest medical and scientific knowledge, consumer product data, community health performance information, government spending data and much more.

A unique feature of these publications is their projections of the number of cancer cases and deaths expected in each state and in the nation in the current year. Each edition of Cancer Facts & Figures includes a Special Section of in-depth focus on a specific cancer or group of cancers.

Statistics on all matters of female reproductive health, and the abortion 'surveillance' statistics that provide data on state to state.

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

Educational Attainment

Lesson plans for K-12 or general puclic, can search by keyword or grade-level or topic to teach the areas of money, financial planning, economics.