U.S. Government Information Resources

Produced at the National Library pf Medicine, the HSRIC is a research portal of health services & research resources providing numerous Internet links to data, funding announcements, reports, podcasts, discussion groups, and more.

Reports on 41 key indicators of childrens' well-being: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health.

Includes the National Diabetes Fact Sheet and the National Diabetes Surveillance System and provides resources documenting the public health burden of diabetes and its complications in the United States.

A tutorial to finding health statistics produced by the NICHSR at the National Library of Medicine responsible for the "collection, storage, analysis, retrieval, and dissemination of information on health services research, clinical practice guidelines, and on health care technology, including the assessment of such technology." [from the website]

Reports, general information, and data related to caring for pets and the benefits of having pets

Data on public health, including Aids, cancer, birth and cause of death statistics, etc.

The federal agency for national demographic and economic data.

Resources for Teachers and Schools

Previously, American FactFinder, Data.Census.Gov is the U.S. Census Bureau's end user search engine designed to search the Bureau's many statistical resources. It delivers a wide variety of population, economic, geographic and housing data.

The Bureau's collection of statistical reports, in pdf format, on the social and economic characteristics of the population

This section follows the evolution of the decennial census by detailing the events surrounding each of them. Political and technological changes, and the shifting public demand for information, have all shaped the modern census and the mission of the Census Bureau.

The University of Virginia Library and the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research offer searchable data from the 1790-1960 Decennial Censuses. Further description can be found at http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu/php/reference.html

Full text of most of the County and City Data Books from the Hathi Trust Catalog. See a reference librarian for assistance

Social, economic, and population and business/economic data for state counties and major metropolitan areas. ADAMS library has all 7 editions (1979 - ) in print format. The most recent is in Reference REF HA202 .S84

Inflation, employment, pay, spending, productivity, workplace injuries, etc.

"... wide range of tables, articles, and data that describe and measure elements of the U.S. tax system."

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has relaunched Fedspending.org as a tool for tracking federal spending and holding agencies accountable for their management of public funds. POGO took over the site in 2016 from the Center for Effective Government (formerly OMB Watch), which ceased operations.