LibGuides: Journalism : Statistics & Data

Using Statistics

Statistics Behind the Headlines by A. John Bailer; Rosemary Pennington
Call Number: eBOok
ISBN: 1000702618
Publication Date: 2022-09-28
Chapters in Statistics Behind the Headlines kick off with a news story headline and a summary of the story itself. The meat of each chapter consists of an exploration of the statistical and journalism concepts needed to understand the data analyzed and reported in the story.

Websites for Statistics

CA Department of Public Health Data & Statistics
Access to public health data and information, such as queries, resources, statistics, surveys, informatics, GIS, and health indicators.
CA Dept of Education Statistics
Data and statistics collected from California schools and learning support resources to identify trends and educational needs and to measure performance.
CA Health and Human Services Open Data Portal
Non confidential health and human services data that can be easily retrieved, combined, downloaded, sorted, searched, and analyzed.
Data LA
Open datasets to analyze and create visualizations with from all LA agencies.
LA Homless Services Count
Data sets and service planning areas for homelessness in LA.
CA Geoportal
The California Geoportal provides easy and convenient ways to discover and share geospatial data resources.

Bureau of Justice Statistics
Provides statistics on crime trends, homicide trends and characteristics, law enforcement management and administration.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Statistics on inflation, career outlook, unemployment, pay, and productivity.
Census Survey of Business Owners
The Survey of Business Owners (SBO) provides the only comprehensive, regularly collected source of information on selected economic and demographic characteristics for businesses and business owners by gender, ethnicity, race, and veteran status.
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Data & Statistics
Data and statistics from the CDC organized by disease.
Envirofacts
Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) portal for statistics and data on air, water, land, and pollution.
General Social Survey (GSS)
Since 1972, the GSS has provided politicians, policymakers, and scholars with a clear and unbiased perspective on what Americans think and feel about such issues as national spending priorities, crime and punishment, intergroup relations, and confidence in institutions.
National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES)
Educational statistics from early childhood through postsecondary education.
Pew Research Center
Public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research. Topics range from politics, technology, social trends, religion, science, and race and ethnicity.
Statistical Briefing Book
The SBB enables users to access online information to learn more about juvenile crime and victimization and about youth involved in the juvenile justice system.

National Centers for Environmental Information This link opens in a new window
National Centers for Environmental Information provides climate, historical weather data, informationlocal climatological data, climatological data, storm data, hourly precipitation data, and monthly climatic data for the world.
Its national summary data include a national general summary of weather conditions, observed extremes of temp & precip by states, climatological data by station, heating degree/cooling degree days, flood data and losses, and storm summaries. Upper air data, sunshine and solar radiation data are also summarized.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed articles focusing on criminal and juvenile justice.
Provided free as a government service.It provides summaries of criminal justice literature - government reports, journal articles, books, and more.
Statistical Abstract of the United States This link opens in a new window
U.S. Census statistics on population, health, education, employment, public aid, and more. Data is available through 2011.
The Statistical Abstract of the United States web site contains statistical tables from the print version of the Statistical Abstract, tables from USA Statistics in Brief, tables giving state rankings (in population, health, education, employment, public aid, social security, income, crime, energy, business, federal funds, motor vehicles), state and county statistical profiles, and tables giving economic statistics for the United States.
There is a special page highlighting all Frequently Requested Tables from the Frequently Requested Tables from the Statistical Abstract

NOTE: IMPORTANT: If you do not know EXACTLY which number table you want, use the INDEX at the end of the Table of Contents!

CIA World Factbook
Information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
A source for cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories.
World Bank Data
Data is accessible by country, indicator, or topic, or via a specific database such as World Development Indicators, Gender Statistics, Education Statistics, the Poverty and Equity Database, or one of many others.
World Health Organization Statistics
The World Health Statistics series is WHO’s annual compilation of health statistics for its 194 Member States.

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