Government Sources
American FactFinder: Provides tables and maps of census data for the United States, California, and California counties and cities. Includes population and housing characteristics, age, race, income and poverty.
National Center for Health Statistics: Includes births and deaths, leading cause of death, drinking, cancer and other health topics.
World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS): Comprehensive source of "health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization, and elsewhere". Presents data on births, deaths, infant mortality, life expectancy, childhood immunization, and diseases by age and sex.
Sources You Can Find Through BobCat
Global Financial Data: Includes global financial data extending from 1200s to present.
CIS Statistical Universe: Statistical Universe is the most comprehensive source for federal statistics. It provides detailed abstracts, indexing, and locator information for all statistical reports of general research value issued by the federal government since the early 1960's. It also indexes the publications of state and private agencies, and the statistical publications of such IGO's (Intergovernmental Organizations) as the IMF, UN, OECD, World Bank and more. There are direct links to all key statistical data available on federal agency World Wide Web sites as well as direct links to hundreds of reports stored within the Universe service itself.
Roper Center Public Opinion Archives: Archives data sets from thousands of surveys with national adult, state, foreign, and special subpopulation samples (e.g. Gallup polls, major network news polls, exit polls, etc.)
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR): Archive of digital social science data including data sets on education, health care, political behavior, organizational behavior, and social institutions, etc.
World Development Indicators: The World Bank's annual compilation of data about development. Includes population growth, birth and death rates, as well as economy and education.
STAT-USA: Includes federal business, economic, and trade publications.
Source-OECD: Includes e-books, e-periodicals, and interactive statistical databases on international topics ranging from economics to education
Online Finding Aids
Statistical Resources on the Web from University of Michigan Documents Center. Guide to finding statistics on the web by topic (e.g. agriculture, business and industry, health, education, weather, cost of living, military)
Statistical Sources By Topic from the UC Santa Cruz Libraries' Government Publications Department.