JOUR 207: Reporting and Writing I: Statistics by Topic

Data holdings for the United States are significant with some data available at state, county, or local geographies. International data,available at the country level, include population, food and agriculture, labor, trade, and more. Data are organized by subject and source.

Tags: Dataplanet

Historical data goes back hundreds of years in some cases. To begin, select the "GFDatabase" search engine and then select "Search My File Permissions." USC does NOT subscribe to the GFD databases for company stock information or real estate. You can search those databases, but you will not be able to retrieve data from the search results.

A subset of these data can be viewed graphically within the World Bank's Data Visualizer.

Also, check out the World Banks new open-data initiative.

Data holdings for the United States are significant with some data available at state, county, or local geographies. International data,available at the country level, include population, food and agriculture, labor, trade, and more. Data are organized by subject and source.

Tags: Dataplanet

ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.

It includes company profiles, some with SWOT analysis, country briefings, sector briefings, sector data, industry watch articles and detailed Consumer Lifestyle reports.

And allows users to search a database of survey questions (iPoll) or download data files directly (RoperExpress). Users will need to enter their USC email address to access data. For quick polling statistics by subject, check out the link to “Topics at a glance”.