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General Statistics Sources

    
    Start your statistics research by locating a table, chart, or graph.

    An  interactive database that allows users to create tables and figures from a variety datasets. International data, available at the country level, include foreign labor statistics, persons obtaining legal permanent resident status, population change, trade balance, US trade by commodity group, and data from the UN Economic Commission for Europe, World Resource Institute, and World Bank. Data holdings for the United States are significant with some data available at state, county, and local geographies. Data are organized by subject and source. Results can be viewed as a table, a customizable chart, or in map format.

    Use the FIND A TABLE link and type in a keyword describing the information you are looking for. If you can't find the right words, then use the Subject List  and look through the A-Z list of categories. 
    • Simply Map    
      SimplyMap is a web-based mapping application enables non-technical users to quickly create thematic maps and reports/tables using extensive demographic, social, business and marketing data. Provides data down to the census block level, or combine census blocks to create your own area of analysis.
    • ICPSR     
      Inter-university consortium for political and social research
       
    • UNESCO Institute for Statistics     
      Culture and communication statistics.
       
    • TableBase     
      A database of statistics and tables drawn from a wide range of trade publications and business news sources. In many cases the full text of the source article is included with the statistics.
       
    • Statesman's Yearbook Online     
      Brief statistics by country in communications and culture.
       
    • World Development Indicators     
      Annual compilation from the World Bank of statistical data about development, covering over 200 countries. Under 'topic,' select "Development framework" and then "Communications.

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    Danielle Mihram
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    Leavey Library, LVL114
    dmihram@usc.edu

    Subject Specialties:
    ---Digital Humanities.
    ---Project building and leadership, Digital Humanities.
    ---French and Italian Languages and Literatures.
    ---Manuscript Studies.
    ---Voltaire and the Enlightenment.


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