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…
If you need to know voter registration for counties or Congressional districts, you’ll need to go directly to the appropriate state office. Two helpful directories that speed this process are: National Association of State Election Directors This site maintains a list of links to the offices that handle voter registration and elections for each state.…
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…
Migrant-Remittances The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) web site is a good place to look for remittance data such as: Remittances to select Latin American countries (by destination country) for 2005 and also annually back to 2001 Remittances from the US to Latin America (by source US state) for 2006 and 2004 See also the Remittances…
Monitoring Minnesota’s Changing Landscapes Research of the University of Minnesota’s Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory. From the home page: This website provides a series of maps and statistics about land cover, impervious surface area and landscape change, derived from satellite imagery, in Minnesota from 1986 to the present. Accurate and consistent information about land…
StateMaster – US Statistics, State Comparisons For those of you who, like me, are already big fans of NationMaster, now there is an analogous tool for comparative U.S. state statistics. Their summary says it all: “Welcome to StateMaster, a unique statistical database which allows you to research and compare a multitude of different data on…
CQ’s State Fact Finder 2006 (book) Carleton Reference HA 214 .C68 2006 “More than 265 Tables for Quick Research” “One-Stop Ranking Profiles for Every State” Surprisingly, the blurbs on the front of this book capture some of the most important reasons one would use this reference book. Congressional Quarterly gathers information from respected state, national,…