| Title |
Description |
| AACC
|
National enrollment trend data in Community
Colleges |
| Advance
Data From Vital and Health Statistics |
|
| Affirmative
action data |
By State and County |
| American Demographics |
Public opinion for marketing |
| AmericanFactFinder
|
Decennial census data is searchable and accessible
through this page. Summary File 3 contains education data. A
subject list also provides data access |
| American National Election
Studies |
The mission of the National Election Studies (NES) is to produce
high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation |
| American
Institute of Physics |
The Statistical Research Center is your source
for data on education and employment in physics, astronomy and
allied fields. |
| America’s Learning Exchange
|
Data base of education for employees on the job Searchable
by subject, type of program (seminar, conference), state, and
level (degree, basic, certification) |
| Australia
Higher Education |
Australian |
| "Brief
Economic Facts" Facts about MD |
|
| California |
How California schools compare with others
in the nation, plus a snapshot of K-12 education |
| Canada
|
Canadian Educational Stats |
| CDC's
State Health Department Search |
Search for information on one or more state
department of health services' home pages |
| Census
Bureau |
on Education |
| Census
Short Briefs |
|
| Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) |
Serves to "promote health and quality of life by preserving
and controlling disease, injury, and disability". Select
Data & Statistics from the shaded area to the left |
| ChildsStats.gov
|
Easy access to federal and state statistics
and reports on children and their families, including: population
and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior
and social environment, and education |
| College and University
Campus Crime Statistics |
(Campus Safety) Campus crime by type of crime and university
FBI and Chronicle of Higher Education are among source |
| College
and University Rankings |
(UIUC) Analytical guide to web sites with
college rankings Includes undergraduate, graduate, law, business,
and international institutions |
| CRESST |
Navigate to data sources |
| Data
from the National Center for Health Statistics' health and demographic
surveys. |
Data from the National Center for Health Statistics' health
and demographic surveys. |
| Education and Policy Data Center |
A global, multi-source database of national and sub-national education and related indicators. [Description PDF] |
| Educational
attainment by sex and race for the nation as a whole |
By sex and race for the nation as a whole-Abbreviated
data by state |
| Education
Data Portal |
You could spend days here. My favorites:
|
| Education
Finance Statistical Center (EFSC) |
Financial data and publications for education
in the United States and other countries. |
| Educational
statistics at a Glance |
Center for Education Reform |
| Educational
Finance Statistics Center |
Get finance information on public elementary/secondary
education |
| Effect
size (ES) on-line tutorials |
Effect size (ES) is a name given to a family of indices that
measure the magnitude of a treatment effect. Unlike significance
tests, these indices are independent of sample size. ES measures
are the common currency of meta-analysis studies that summarize
the findings from a specific area of research. |
| Enoch
Pratt Demographics for MD |
Maryland Demographics |
| ERS Group |
An economic and financial consulting firm that specializes
in analyses for complex business litigation, matters involving
employment decisions, and regulation. |
| Eurostat |
Provides the European Union with high-quality
statistical information service |
| Eurydice |
Extensive descriptive information on the educational systems
of EU member countries |
| Evaluating Information On The Internet |
Information about what to think about when doing web based research. |
|
Fedstats:
|
The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies |
| Federal
GIS Data |
|
| Galileo |
Data broken down to crime, youth well being education etc. |
| Health,
United States 2003 with Chartbook on the Trends in the Health
of Americans |
National Center for Health Statistics Includes
national trends in health statistics on such topics as population,
fertility and fatality, mortality, determinants and measures
of health, ambulatory care, inpatient care, health personnel,
facilities, national health expenditures, health care coverage
and major federal programs, state health expenditures and health
insurance |
| Healthy
People 2010 |
Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service,
2000 |
| HigherEd.org
National Center for Education Statistics |
This site is your guide or portal to information
about national datasets in postsecondary education. |
| Higher Education Statistics
Agency |
UK related |
| Home
Education Across The United States |
National Home School Legal Defense Fund |
| International Archive
of Educational Data |
International Data |
| International
Comparisons in Education |
NCES |
| International
data portal |
|
| Improving
Student Achievement: What State NAEP Test Scores Tell Us |
RAND |
| Internet
World Stats |
An International website featuring up to date
2005 worldwide Internet Usage Statistics, the Population and
the Area Data, for over 233 countries and world regions |
| IT
workforce |
Office of Technology Policy/Technology Administration |
| Japan
|
Ministry of Education: Japan |
| Journal
of Educational Statistics |
papers demonstrating, preferably through concrete example,
how the educational statistician can contribute to sound, productive,
and creative educational decision-making and practice. |
| K-12
Practitioners' Circle |
provides useful information for local educators,
policymakers, administrators, and librarians. |
| Korea |
Korean Education |
| Maryland/DC
Breeding Bird Atlas |
The maps are really the interesting part here |
| MD
Business Listings |
|
| MD
Career and Workforce Information |
MD Career and Workforce Information |
| MapStats |
By state and county National and regional Maps |
| Maryland
Counties |
Physical Features, Cultural Features and Census
Data |
| Maryland
Department of Assessments and Taxation |
Real Property Data Search By County |
| MD Genealogy
|
|
| Maryland
NewLine |
Dealing with AIDS in MD |
| Maryland
Report Card |
Data on hoe Maryland is doing to meet NCLB |
| Maryland Technology
Inventory |
Yearly Tech Inventory and Teacher use |
| Millennium
Indicators |
United Nations. Forty-eight social and economic
indicators for 197 countries annually, 1985-2000. Includes carbon
dioxide emissions, immunizations, AIDS, education, illiteracy,
mortality, malnutrition, forested lands, sanitation, water and
telephone lines |
| Minority Achievement in MD |
Minority Achievement Stats in Maryland |
| MMWR: Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) Based on weekly reports to CDC by state health departments,
this report includes national and state data on diseases and
a review of selected health problems. |
| Montgomery
County |
GIS Related Links Related to Montgomery County MD |
| National
Archive of Criminal Justice Data |
Data on Crimes National |
| National Center for Education
Statistics: |
The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data
related to education in the U.S. and other nations. |
| National
Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) |
Serves as the primary Federal organization
responsible for the collection, analysis, and dissemination
of health statistics. |
| National Education Statistical
Information Systems |
International resources |
| National
Assessment of adult Literacy |
Data sets and analysis of findings Includes
literacy of adults, older adults, and the prison population |
| National
Assessment of Educational Progress |
Data and reports from the National Center for Education Statistics. |
| National
Commission on Teaching and America's Future |
What Matters Most summarizes role of teachers
in student development |
| National Educational
Longitudinal Study |
A nationally representative sample of eighth-graders were
first surveyed in the spring of 1988. |
| National
Forum on Educational Statistics |
Portal and Forum |
| National Low Income Housing
Coalition |
LIH Data |
| Nation
Master |
Create graphs, maps, and country rankings
for a very broad range of social, economic and cultural statistics.
Subjects include individual crimes, currency, sports, religion,
transportation, electoral system, budget, trade balance, health,
education, economics, marriage rate |
| National Public
School and School District Locator |
Locate individual elementary or secondary schools or school
districts by name, district, telephone number, or enrollment
Data includes location, number of teachers and students, student/teacher
ratio, students by grade and ethnicity/race |
| National
School Report |
Arranged by county with composite statistics
for individual school districts School population, student-teacher
raiot, average elementary and secondary class size, computers
in elementary schools, percent of high school students going
to college |
| National School Safety Center
|
Promotes safe school strategies Numerous publications for
purchase School-Associated Violent Deaths (pdf) |
| National
statistics: The Green Book The 2004 Green Book |
Provides program descriptions and historical
data on topics which include Social Security, employment, earnings,
welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families
with children, poverty, and taxation |
| National Vital
Statistics System |
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health
Service, National Center for Health Statistics Includes national
and state, cumulative and monthly data, on births, deaths, marriages,
divorces, and fetal deaths |
| NCES Common
Core of Data (CCD) |
National public school and school district
locator, statistics, publications, and more |
| NEA Higher
Education |
Data primarily on faculty salaries State policy and budget
developments |
| New
Zealand Education |
Education stats in NZ |
| NC |
NC report Card |
| NSF
About Science Resource Stats |
NSF Reports
|
| Nielsen
NetRatings statistics for search engines and portal |
The Nielsen//NetRatings MegaView Search reporting
service measures the search behavior of more than a million
people worldwide. |
| Petersons educational
center |
Basic enrollment, endowment, and financial data for colleges
and private K-12 schools |
| Pew
Internet and American Life Project |
Variety of up to date data |
| Poverty
Rates |
By State and County |
| Private
School Locator |
Searchable database of over 29,000 private
schools in the United States |
| Public
Elementary-Secondary School Systems Financial Statistics |
(Census Bureau) Revenue and expenditures by type, investment
and debt for public school systems in 1993/94 Statewide data
and data for individual school districts with enrollments of
15,000+ |
| OECD
|
Statistics on educational finance, enrollment
and personnel since 1985 for OECD countries-include Europe,
Japan, Australia, United States, Canada, and Mexico |
| SCAN
Report |
What Work Requires of Schools is the title of the initial
SCANS report |
| School
District Demographics |
Sample data variables for the U.S., Bureau
of Indian Affairs, State, County, and other School Districts
for 1990 and 2000 |
| School Improvement in Maryland |
Navigate to Analyzing and Using Data |
| Science
& Technology National Patterns of Research and Development
Resources |
NSF Final Reports and Stats |
| Scientific Research on
the Internet |
A study (from our very own) about everything you wanted to
know about Internet use and time |
| Search
Engine Watch |
The source for search engine marketing |
| Sony
Theater Search Engine Statistics |
Report overview |
| State
of Literacy in America |
Searchable database of literacy for states,
counties, cities, township and Congressional Districts Sample
based on the 1990 Census and 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey |
| Statistics
Education |
Online Statistical teaching material, courses , handouts,
exercises, articles, datasets, Useful lists of links |
| Statistics on U.S. Schools By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
Associated Press taps a number of sources to offer a statistical snapshot of public and private education in the United States. The data touch on trends and break out in such areas as schools' racial and ethnic makeup, special education enrollments, the general population's educational levels and teacher salaries |
| Students'
Report on School Crime: 1989 and 1995 |
Joint NCES and Bureau of Justice Statistics survey completed
in 1998 Data on crime victims, guns, drugs, and street gangs
in schools for 1989 and 1995 |
| Smartest
State Results |
Morgan Quito Press |
| Social Security Policy
|
Stats on SS |
| Stats
on Integrity |
Evaluate the statistical integrity of tests
they administer as well as the academic integrity of the students
taking those tests. |
| Statistical
Abstract of the US |
The National Data Book contains a collection of statistics
on social and economic conditions in the United States |
| State
and Metropolitan Area Data Book 1997-1998 (5th ed.) |
This online full-text book includes a collection
of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United
States at the State and metropolitan area levels with selected
data for component counties and central cities of metropolitan
areas |
| The Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) |
Focus on just what the study’s name implies: those
who have crossed the finish line. |
| Tabulated State Data |
National Center for Health Statistics, CDC Scroll to the bottom
of the page to find the Tabluated State Data section |
| The
Nations Report Card |
NCES |
| The
White House |
Social Statistics Briefing Room |
| The
WorldBank Group |
Comprehensive Database of education statistics |
| Third International Mathematics
and Science Study (TIMMS)- |
Findings from the National Center for Educational Statistics,
U.S. Department of Education. |
| UCLA
IT workforce Data Project |
Workforce Data in Technology |
| UNESCO |
Global and internationally comparable statistics on education,
science, technology, culture and communication |
| University
of Maryland |
Measurement and Stats Dept |
| University
of Maryland (C-SAVE) |
Center for the Study of Assessment Validity and Evaluation |
| University
of Maryland Crime Stats |
Compiled in accordance with the Jeanne Clery
Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics
Act |
| UMD Economic
Online Resources Database |
Economic Data portal |
| University
of Maryland Health |
Health Stats |
| University of Maryland
OIT Stats Lab |
Provides extensive expertise in statistical consulting and
data analysis |
| UMD
Libraries - Database |
Sources of International Statistics on the
Internet |
| UNESCO
|
Education for all |
| Urban
Census Data Project |
By state |
| USAID |
Global Education Databases |
| U.S.
Census Data Centers |
Provides a list of links to Census State Data
Centers. These centers provide training and technical assistance
in accessing Census data for research, administration, and such.
Data Center |
| US Labor
Stats |
US Department of Labor |
| US
News and World Report |
Ranks colleges nationally, by region, and
state; friendliness to international students; diversity |
| Vital
and Health Statistics Series ("The Rainbow Series")
|
An ongoing series providing data on the national population,
including fatality, marriage, divorce, family growth, induced
terminations of pregnancy, and more |
| Violence
and Discipline Problems in U.S. Public Schools |
(NCES) Types of crimes and frequency in U.S.
public schools Crime by size, socio-economic status, grade level,
and region |
| (2001)Youth
Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General |
Report commissioned after the Columbine shooting |
|
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (CDC) |
State and national data affecting health of
young people |
| WorldBank
Group |
World Stats |
