Influenza Activity – Minnesota Department of Health Every year the Minnesota Department of Health publishes an influenza activity report. Today, the H1N1 Epidemiology report was released for 2009-2010. The archive page contains the annual statistical reports from 2003 to the present. Format: mostly PDF, but occasionally Excel Good for: numbers of patients hospitalized for influenza,…
Preliminary results from the 2009 Minnesota Health Access Survey show a significant increase in uninsurance in the state. The Minnesota Health Access Survey is a large-scale health insurance survey conducted jointly by the Health Economics Program (of the Minnesota Department of Health) and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.
The latest Liber8 newsletter focused on the possible economic impacts of a flu pandemic. The following free data sources were mentioned in the report. “Pandemic Flu and the Potential for U.S. Economic Recession: A State-by-State Analysis.” A 96 page report published by the Trust for America’s Health, which presents the results of estimated GDP loss…
CPANDA, the Cultural Policy & the Arts National Data Archive Search and download policy-relevant data on the arts and cultural policy in the U.S. from this archive at Princeton. CPANDA also includes a “searchable bibliographic database of selected monographs, serials, reports, papers, proceedings, articles and books (1965 to first quarter 2007) relevant to arts and…
statehealthfacts.org from the Kaiser Family Foundation This web site provides a remarkably quick and easy way to find and compare health and health care statistics and data on a U.S. state level. Over 500 topics are represented, many of which are from freely available public sources, but some private sources are included such as original…
A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825 This collection of early U.S. election returns has been painstakingly created using official reports, original election ballots, contemporary newspaper accounts, and 19th century county histories. All levels of elections are included, from town clerks to presidential. Search by keyword, state, year, office, candidate, party or election type…
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 The Harvard University Library Open Collections Program has created this digital library of historical documents on immigration. “Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, includes approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 9,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival…
Local data (i.e. state-level or county-level) can be found from the national source, in this case the BEA, or from a local demographer’s office. Local Source County Level Income Data for Minnesota, 2005 The state demographer’s office of Minnesota prepares and publishes reports and data subsets like this one for the state of Minnesota. When…
North American Jewish Data Bank This data archive provides access to data to researchers who sign up for an account and agree to the user agreement. Included in the archive are: “The Data Bank archives and makes available electronically questionnaires, reports and data files from the National Jewish Population Surveys (NJPS) of 1971, 1990 and…
Compare Minnesota is a new feature of the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) web site. It provides comparable statistics for Minnesota and other states in the following subjects: Economic performance Business climate Labor force Quality of Education Innovation Presence of Fortune 500 companies and employment in hot industries Consumer prices Investment and…