Communication Studies *: General Statistics

Research Guide, Social science numeric sources available through the USC Libraries and on the Internet. Created by Katharin Peter, Data Librarian. For data research help contact kpeter@usc.edu

ProQuest Statistical Insight abstracts include a detailed description of a publication's statistical contents and primary bibliographic information like title, date, collation, agency report number (if any), and periodicity. Whenever possible, the Superintendent of Documents classification number, the Library of Congress card number.

The World Bank's World Development Indicators provides direct access to more than 700 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to present. A subset of these data can be viewed graphically within the World Bank's Data Visualizer.

ProQuest Statistical DataSets is 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, personsobtaining legal permanent resident status, population change, trade balance, US trade by commodity group, and data from the UN Economic Commission forEurope, World Resource Institute, and World Bank.