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Federal Data Sources
AgingStats.Gov
http://agingstats.gov/agingstatsdotnet/main_site/default.aspx
The Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics (Forum) was initially established in 1986, with the goal of bringing together Federal agencies that share a common interest in improving aging-related data. The Forum has played a key role by critically evaluating existing data resources and limitations, stimulating new database development, encouraging cooperation and data sharing among Federal agencies, and preparing collaborative statistical reports.
Children’s Bureau
Child Care Bureau Research
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
The Child Care and Development Fund statistics are compiled through data reported by States and Territories on the ACF-800--Annual Aggregate Child Care Data Report and ACF-801--Monthly Child Care Data Report.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
http://www.childwelfare.gov/
A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to print and electronic publications, websites, and online databases covering a wide range of topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, adoption, search and reunion, and much more. Also available through the Child Welfare Information Gateway are publications from the National Incidence Study (NIS). This is a congressionally mandated, periodic research effort to assess the incidence of child abuse and neglect in the United States.
ChildStats.gov
http://www.childstats.gov/
The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (Forum) is a collection of 22 Federal government agencies involved in research and activities related to children and families. The mission of the Forum is to foster coordination and collaboration and to enhance and improve consistency in the collection and reporting of Federal data on children and families. The Forum also aims to improve the reporting and dissemination of information on the status of children and families. The Forum's annual report, America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, provides the Nation with a summary of national indicators of child well-being and monitors changes in these indicators over time.
http://www.census.gov/
The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy. The Census Bureau also provides various data tools such as American FactFinder and DataFerrett.
FISCAL
Green Book
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/wmprints/green/index.html
The House Ways and Means Committee Green Book provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty and taxation.
HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/home/rsds.asp
Provides links to data and research on Medicaid and Medicare spending, SCHIP and healthcare outcomes. This includes the Medical Statistical Information System (MSIS) and the Minimum Data Set (MDS).
Health Care: Data and Surveys
http://www.ahrq.gov/data/
AHRQ is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality—the Nation's lead Federal agency for research on health care quality, costs, outcomes, and patient safety. Data collected and provided by this website includes information on health care use, expenditures, insurance coverage, outcomes and access to care and utilization by vulnerable populations, such as those with HIV.
National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
NCHS is the Nation’s principal health statistics agency. They compile statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of our people. This includes the resource Trends in Health and Aging, which disseminates data and research in the areas of aging and chronic diseases. It also includes the National Vital Statistics System, which collects information on marriage, divorce, birth and death.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Statistics
SAMHSA’s Office of Applied Studies (OAS) provides the latest national data on alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other drug abuse; drug related emergency department episodes and medical examiner cases; and the nation’s substance abuse Treatment system.
USDA Nutrition Assistance Data and Statistics
Provides data and research regarding USDA Nutrition Assistance programs. Including child nutrition, women, infants and children and food distribution program.
Immigration Statistics
http://www.dhs.gov/ximgtn/statistics/
This statistical information informs policy and assesses the effects of immigration in the United States. This includes the Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, profiles on legal permanent residents, profiles on naturalized citizens and maps visually represent U.S. migration data by various demographic and geographic characteristics.
JUSTICE
Bureau of Justice Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
The Bureau of Justice Statistics’ mission is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to Federal, State, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded.
Criminal Justice Information Services: Crime Stats
Provides a range of crime stats over time. Information on the fluctuations in the level of crime from year to year can be used for a variety of research and planning purposes. Information includes Crime in the United States report, hate crime statistics, and National Incident-Based Reporting System.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. These data are displayed in over 1,000 tables. The site is updated regularly as new statistics become available.
LABOR
Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/home.htm
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics. The BLS is an independent national statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates essential statistical data to the American public, the U.S. Congress, other Federal agencies, State and local governments, business, and labor. The BLS also serves as a statistical resource to the Department of Labor.
NASW Center for Workforce Studies
http://workforce.socialworkers.org/
The Center conducts research studies and compiles labor force data from other sources. In addition, the Center advances social work professional development with the provision of innovative training programs in emerging practice areas and the dissemination of timely information and resources on evidence-based practices.
National Center for Charitable Statistics
http://nccs.urban.org/
The National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) is the national clearinghouse of data on the nonprofit sector in the United States. NCCS works closely with the IRS and others and builds national, state, and regional databases and develops uniform standards for nonprofit reporting.
AGING
Health and Retirement Study
http://hrsonline.isr.umich.edu/data/index.html
The University of Michigan Health and Retirement Study (HRS) surveys more than 22,000 Americans over the age of 50 every two years. Supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA U01AG009740), the study paints an emerging portrait of an aging America's physical and mental health, insurance coverage, financial status, family support systems, labor market status, and retirement planning.
CAREGIVING
Family Caregiver Alliance: Caregiving Across The States
http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/content_node.jsp?nodeid=1274
The Caregiving Across the States Online Resource represents results from a 2-year 50-state caregiving study. Information was collected from state agencies responsible for the administration of the NFCSP; Aged/Disabled Medicaid waivers; and state-funded programs that either have a caregiver-specific focus or include a family caregiving component. Not included in this study were programs serving family caregivers of persons with developmental disabilities or grandparents raising grandchildren; or programs funded by the federal Alzheimer’s Disease Demonstration Grants to States that were considered “stand alone” rather than integrated into a larger caregiver support program.
CHILDREN AND CHILD WELFARE
Center for Law and Social Policy
http://www.clasp.org/publications/childcareearlyedmap.htm
CLASP's child care and early education work highlights state-by-state data where available. This set of state-by-state data includes analysis of 2005 child care spending from Child Care Development Block Grant and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds and of 2005 Head Start Program Information Report data, along with data on states’ use of community-based child care to provide pre-kindergarten. It also links to profiles of state infant and toddler initiatives highlighted in CLASP’s Starting Off Right report.
Child Trends
http://www.childtrends.org/
Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children from pregnancy to the transition to adulthood. Child Trends provides services such as the DataBank, which provides the latest national trends and research on over 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being, with new indicators added each month!
Kids Count
http://www.aecf.org/MajorInitiatives/KIDSCOUNT.aspx
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT online database features child well-being measures for the 50 largest U.S. cities, this powerful tool contains more than 100 indicators of child well-being. County and other community-level data is also available.
National Data Analysis System
http://ndas.cwla.org
The Child Welfare League of America’s National Data Analysis System (NDAS) is a comprehensive collection of child welfare and related data. It covers a wide array of topics that reflect services to children and families.
National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/
A resource since 1988, NDACAN promotes scholarly exchange among researchers in the child maltreatment field. NDACAN acquires microdata from leading researchers and national data collection efforts and makes these datasets available to the research community for secondary analysis. NDACAN supports information-sharing through its Child Maltreatment Research List Serve and its Updata e-newsletter and provides training opportunities to researchers through conference workshops and its annual Summer Research Institute.
Urban Institute: National Survey of America's Families
http://www.urban.org/center/anf/nsaf.cfm
The National Survey of America's Families provides a comprehensive look at the well-being of children and non-elderly adults, and reveals sometimes striking differences among the 13 states studied in depth. The survey provides quantitative measures of child, adult and family well-being in America, with an emphasis on persons in low-income families.
HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE
Seeking Rural Health Data: A Tool Kit
http://www.rho.arizona.edu/Resources/Toolkit/
This Toolkit is designed is to provide a tool for accessing and utilizing national, databases that are readily available, free, and have useful rural information. This data can support requests for resources, demonstrate the need for rural health programs and initiatives, and confirm the need for establishing new policy or changing current policy to benefit rural health.
Statehealthfacts.org
http://www.statehealthfacts.org/about.jsp
Statehealthfacts.org is a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and is designed to provide free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on all 50 states. This resource includes customized fact sheets and data on the following information topics include demographics and the economy, health status, health coverage & uninsured, Medicaid & SCHIP, health costs & budgets, Medicare, managed care & health insurance, providers & service use, minority health, women's health, HIV/AIDS, and children’s health.
United Nations: Statistics Division
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/default.htm
The Statistics Division is committed to the advancement of the global statistical system. We compile and disseminate global statistical information, develop standards and norms for statistical activities, and support countries’ efforts to strengthen their national statistical systems. We facilitate the coordination of international statistical activities and support the functioning of the UN Statistical Commission as the apex entity of the global statistical system.
World Health Organization Statistical Information System
http://www.who.int/whosis/en/
WHOSIS, WHO Statistical Information System, is an online database of the most recent and comprehensive health information on all of the 193 WHO Member States. The data, selected on the basis of quality and availability, relevance to global health, and comparability across member nations, cover over 70 core health indicators, which are organized into six major categories: mortality and burden of disease, health service coverage, risk factors, health system inputs, differentials in health outcome and coverage, as well as basic socio-demographic statistics. These data, which are also published in the World Health Statistics that is released in May of each year, can be accessed from the online database by way of a quick search, or by major categories, or through user-defined tables. The retrieved data can then be further filtered, charted or downloaded.
JUSTICE
Justice Research and Statistics Association
The Justice Research and Statistics Association is a national nonprofit organization of state Statistical Analysis Center (SAC) directors, researchers, and practitioners throughout government, academia, and criminal justice organizations. JRSA serves to promote the exchange of information among the SACs, enabling them to work towards common goals, and as a liaison between the state agencies and the Justice Department. JRSA provides access to the InfoBase of State Activities and Research (ISAR), which is a clearinghouse of current information on state criminal justice research, programs, and publications; training in the latest computer technologies for records management, data analysis, Internet, forecasting, and other cutting-edge topics; and reports on the latest research being conducted by Federal and State agencies, including the SAC Publication Digest and The JRSA Forum newsletter.
National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women
The research section of this website features publicly-accessible online data sets on violence against women, and provides information about utilizing and/or analyzing data to enhance the work of advocates and others working to end domestic and sexual violence.
SOCIAL
Sociometrics
http://www.socio.com/
Sociometrics Corporation is a for-profit research and development firm specializing in social science research applications. Sociometrics' data archives currently house exemplary data and documentation from almost 350 leading studies--selected by expert advisory panels--in nine topically-focused areas: teen sexuality and pregnancy, the American family, social gerontology, disability, maternal drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, contextual influences on behavior, child well-being, and complementary and alternative medicine.
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