Statistics to Support Research: Statistics by Topic

How to find, evaluate, and write about statistics in your research

Demograhics and Population

United States

U.S. Census Bureau: Population, demographics, and more. View all topics.

Kids Count Data Center: State trends in child well-being.

Global

Population Reference Bureau: Aging, children and families, reproductive health, gender, global health, inequality and poverty, migration and urbanization, and population and the environment.

Economy and Business

Bureau of Economic Analysis: National, industry, regional, and international economic data.

Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment, unemployment, inflation, wages, and related topics. Of special note: Women's Bureau.

U.S. Economic Census: Official five-year measure of American business and the economy.

U.S. Census Bureau: e-Commerce statistics

Immigration

U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Immigration

U.S. Customs and Border Protection: Stats and Summaries

Migration Policy Institute

Population Reference Bureau

Domestic Violence and Child Abuse

National Criminal Justice Reference Service's Special feature: Child Abuse 

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children & Families' Child Welfare Information Gateway

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Injury Prevention & Control: Intimate Partner Violence - With the goal to prevent intimate partner violence.

Children's Bureau, An Office of the Administration for Children & Families - Find the annual Child Maltreatment reports, which include data provided by the state to the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data Systems.

CDC's page on Intimate Partner Violence.

Religion

The Association of Religion Data Archives - The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. 

Pew Research Center's publications on religion.

Health

Ohio 

Kaiser Family Foundation: Ohio health facts

Ohio Department of Health

United States

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

Kaiser Family Foundation: State Health Facts

World Health Organization: United States

International

World Health Organization

Education

National

National Center for Education Statistics

Institute of Education Sciences: Annual Reports Program (indicator reports, tabular reports, and web tools)

Criminology

Ohio

National

Risk of Being Killed by Police Use of Force in the United States by Age, Race-Ethnicity, and Sex, by Frank Edwards, Hedwig Lee, and Michael Esposito, August 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).

What the Data Say About Police Brutality and Racial Bias - and which Which Reforms Might Work, by Lynne Peeples, originally published 19 June 2020, updated 26 May 2021, in the journal, Nature.

Racial Profiling: Past, Present, and Future? by David A. Harris, 21 January, 2020, American Bar Association (ABA).

Report to the United Nations on Racial Disparity in the U.S. Criminal Justice System, by The Sentencing Project, April 19, 2018.

International

Poverty

U.S. Census Bureau: Poverty in the United States (2022)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Information on Poverty Guidelines

United States Department of Agriculture: Rural Poverty & Well-Being

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