Many government websites and publications include statistics; however, government websites can sometimes be frustrating to use and often it's easier to find statistics in government sources by using a search engine such as Google. Along with words to describe your topic, use these tricks to find statistics in government sources via Google:
Limit by URL Domain: site:gov
This limits your search to websites that end in "gov," which are typically U.S. (federal, state, and city) government websites.
Limit by Filetype: filetype:pdf
This limits your search to PDFs. Many government publications are in PDF format. Other filetypes such as .ppt (PowerPoints), .xls (Excel), and .doc (Word documents) work as well.
Add the word statistics to your search.
Example Searches
The U.S. Census Bureau's mission is to serve as the nation's leading provider of quality data about its people and economy. Comprehensive data on the United States summarized and analyzed.
Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 265 world entities..
Online market research tool monitors economic trends and gives strategic analysis, market size, and market share for numerous products across key countries. Passport includes demographic, psychographic, economic and marketing reports, and statistics, which are comparable across countries. It provides country profiles that include economic news and emerging sectors, and integrated data sets that provide historical trends and forecasting numbers. Datasets may be downloaded to Excel.
Contains economic, financial, and social statistics for worldwide countries and territories, often spanning centuries and beginning as early as 1750. Find data for Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, including countries with changed borders. Includes population demographics, vital statistics, labor force, agriculture, industry, external trade, transport & communications, finance, prices, education, and national accounts. Statistical tables are downloadable and editable.
Supplies statistics and data from more than 400,000 government and non-government datasets. Data is viewable in tables, charts, maps, and graphs. Covers a wide range of topics including agriculture, arts, crime, employment and labor, defense, economy, education, energy, environment, geography, government, health, households and housing, immigration, politics, population, religion, social services, and transportation.
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