National and Local Sources
- PolicyMap This link opens in a new windowPolicyMap provides simple three-layer data mapping and reporting on demographics, consumer expenditures, health, housing, environmental conditions, food access, income, labor force, lending, school districts, transit access, and much more. After creating your own account, data tables can be downloaded and address-level data can be uploaded, stored, and leveraged with 2 other layers of data provided by PolicyMap.
- County Health RankingsNationwide county-by-county health data presented in an easy to navigate format
- Data Access - Health Data Interactive - HomepageCreate custom downloads for statistics about infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. Tables can also be customized by age, gender, race/ethnicity, and geographic location to explore different trends and pattern
- National Center for Health Statistics annual reportThe National Center for Health Statistics annual compilation of statistics on health in the U.S.
- National Center for Health StatisticsUnited States health statistics from the CDC. Data on vital events as well as information on health status, lifestyle and exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, and the use of health care
- Onondaga County: County Health Assessment IndicatorsVarious assessment indicators are available online from 2001 to present at this site. For indicators prior to this time, the infomation is available in the Reference section of the Library in printed form.
- RWJF DataHub - Robert Wood Johnson FoundationView historical statistics back to 2000 for six broad categoriesCovering the Uninsured Health Care Costs Health Care Quality, Value and Equality Healthier Lifestyles Public Health Social Determinants of Health
- STD Data and StatisticsInformation collected from 1996- 2008; Information can be customized to the state level by several parameters.
- Health StatisticsA Subject Guide from the National Library of Medicine
Search Tips
Here are some important search tips for finding statistics online.
1: Piggyback on the work of other researchers by searching in library databases for scholarly articles on that topic with the added keywords of "statistics or data." In the text look for statistics-indicating word patterns, such as: " According to a study/survey/report..." or "71 percent of Americans polled by Gallup..."
2: Investigate the source of the data. Was it a person? An agency? An organization? A government? How was it collected? When?
3: At web sites, look for links to areas named Statistics; Publications, Reports, Data or Databases
4: In Google searches, use numbers-indicating search terms, such as market share, numeric, demographics, "industry overview", and forecast(s)
In part from Leslie F. Stebbins. 2006. Student Guide to Research in the Digital Age. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited.