Online Reference Resources
Statistics
Demographic Data

• American Fact Finder -- create custom data sets for even a city block right down to street address. You can design your own datasets. Excellent. Includes Economic data as well.
• American Religion Data Archive--a collection of both membership data for the different congregations, and an extraordinary amount of opinion survey data.
• Bi-State Regional Commission -- statistics, surveys, construction information, etc. about the Quad City area.
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Canadian Statistics
• Census 2000 in Map Form
• Census Scope -- presents census data in graphic format such as maps, charts, and graphs.  You can zoom in on a national map to get regional information.
• Center for Environmental Statistics is no longer available, thanks to a secretive administration, but here is the Homepage of the Environmental Protection Agency (which we hope is not an oxymoron)
• Community Information by Zip Code -- statistical information on population, health, education, environment and business by zip code.
• Crime in the United States--the Uniform Crime Report from the FBI. Includes hate crime reports as well. Requires Acrobat to view.
• Drug Statistics--from the Office of Applied Studies, a part of the US Dept. of health and Human Services-- statistics on use and consequences of alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs.
• Foreign Governments: Statistics
• GeoHive -- "a site with geopolitical data, statistics on the human population, Earth and more. The main kind of data you can find here is population statistics of regions, countries, provinces and cities. Next to that there are some statistics on economic factors like wealth, infrastructure; statistics on natural phenomena; ... and yet, even more."
• Health Insurance Coverage --from the Census Bureau.
• Hispanic Population of the United States--Updates [.pdf]
• Insurance Institute for Highway Safety--state laws on DUI, child restraints, seatbelts, speed limits, helmet laws, etc.
• International data base -- "is a computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world."
• Iowa Census Data Tables -- lots of tables from taxes to population to housing and much more, from the State of Iowa
• Iowa Data Profiles -- from the State Data Center of Iowa.
• Kids Count Data Book
• Money Income in the United States --from the Census Bureau.
• National Center for Education Statistics--THE place to go for any kind of statistics on American education. 
• National Center for Health Statistics Fastats--subject index to the many series of tables on subjects like causes of death, tobacco use, low birth-weight, unmarried childbearing, Hispanic-Americans' health, etc.
• Population Reference Bureau--this nonprofit, non-advocacy research organization offers objective data to policy makers of population trends and their implications. 
• Poverty in the United States--from the Census Bureau.
• Social Science Data Analysis Network--maintained by the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan, the site includes datasets, census surveys and demographic trends.
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• U.S.  Welfare Caseloads Information