Decennial Census

• American Factfinder
  • Census Bureau's primary means for distributing 2000 Census Data
  • 1990 data includes all 100% and sample variables from Summary Tape Files 1 and 3
  • Geography: nation, states, counties, cities, metropolitan areas, American Indian Reservations, census tracts, block groups
  • Only source to include Congressional Districts and urbanized areas
  • Only source to mix levels of geographic (e.g. tracts and block groups)
  • See also University of Michigan slide show for using the data

• Census Mapping (CIESIN)
  • Create national, state, county, place, tract or block group maps
  • Choose state and submit; choose county and submit
  • Choose geographic level (e.g. tract, block group); choose segmentation (quartiles-deciles); choose subjects (click on the question mark for examples of formulas and coded variable); choose display; submit
  • Thematic maps do not include the names of street boundaries
  • Output may include maps in GIF format, tables, and text
  • Illustration

• Equal Employment Opportunity Census (Oregon State)
  • Data from 1990 Census for states, counties, MSAs, and cities of 50,000+
  • Data for 514 occupations by sex and race/Hispanic origin
  • Educational attainment by age, race, and sex
  • Census Bureau application permits sorting of occupational data and comparative geographies

• Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (FRB)
  • Approval and denial rates of individual banks for new mortgages, home improvements, and refinancing
  • Geographic coding feature
    • Type in address to obtain state, metro area, county, and census tract number
    • Links to 1990 Census data about tract (median income, minority population, age of homes, single v. multiple)
    • Projections of current income by tract

• School District Data Book (Oregon State University)
  • Data for each school district in U.S. includes basic population and housing data, school finances, pupil/teacher ratios
  • Identify state and district; data for districts may be compared
  • CD-ROM of data and maps in the Map Library

Census Updates

• County and City Data Book, 1988 and 1994 (UVa)
  • Summary demographic and vital statistics; employment, education, government, housing, production and weather data
  • For states, counties, and all cities of 25,000+
  • Statistics are a compilation from various sources, including the Census
  • To choose multiple geographic areas, click on the first area with a mouse; press the control key and click on the next area
  • The output may be sorted geographically or by value of the variable

• Current Population Reports
  • Census Bureau Population Division issues Population Characteristics (P-20), Special Subjects (P-23), and Population Estimates and Projections (P-25)
    • National and state data on race, educational attainment, computer ownership, population estimates and projections
    • Summaries and press releases; see PDF Publications for full text in Adobe Acrobat format
  • Census Bureau Household Economics Division issues Consumer Income (P-60) and Survey of Income and Program Participation (P-70)
    • Income, poverty, wealth, health insurance coverage
    • Summaries and press releases; see PDF Publications for full text in Adobe Acrobat format
  • Current Population Reports are also listed on the Census Bureau's web site under Census Bureau Subject List

• Educational Attainment
  • Educational attainment by sex and race for the nation as a whole
  • Taken from the Current Population Survey
  • Various formats with the full text in pdf

• Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (FRB)
  • Approval and denial rates of individual banks for new mortgages, home improvements, and refinancing
  • Geographic coding feature
    • Type in address to obtain state, metro area, county, and census tract number
    • Links to 1990 Census data about tract (median income, minority population, age of homes, single v. multiple)
    • Projections of current income by tract

• School District Estimates of Poverty 1995 (Census Bureau)
  • Total population, school-age population (5-17), and school-age children (5-17) living in poverty, 1995-2000
  • Files arranged by state; data may be downloaded in ASCII format
  • Separate file for U.S. as a whole
  • Michigan Data

Child Welfare

• Children in the States (Children's Defense Fund)
  • National and state data on demographic and economic characteristics
  • Child abuse, welfare payments, poverty, health problems, child care, homicides, suicides, and teen birth rate

• Childstats
  • Federal inter-agency web site about statistics on children
  • Key indicators of child well-being (population, economic, health, substance abuse, blood lead)
  • Special topics, such as fatherhood data
  • List of government contacts by subject and agency

• Kids Count
  • State and national data on child poverty, children living with working parents, salaries of child care workers, immunizations
  • State rankings on childhood death, crime, and poverty since 1985
  • Similar data for large metropolitan areas

Literacy

• National Adult Literacy Survey, 1992
  • Data sets and analysis of findings
  • Includes literacy of adults, older adults, and the prison population
  • Some data by socioeconomic characteristics

• NCES Working Papers
  • Various papers on literacy of older adults, teachers, literacy and the economy
  • Some sources available in full text; some in summary form

Demographics

• School District Data Book (Oregon State/Census)
  • Data for each school district in U.S. includes basic population and housing data, school finances, pupil/teacher ratios
  • Identify state and district; data for districts may be compared
  • CD-ROM of data and maps in the Map Library

• School District Estimates of Poverty 1995 (Census Bureau)
  • Total population, school-age population (5-17), and school-age children (5-17) living in poverty, 1995/96
  • Files arranged by state; data may be downloaded in ASCII format
  • Separate file for U.S. as a whole
  • Michigan Data

• See also Community Demographics

Enrollment and Finance

• Ann Arbor Public Schools
  • School board members, news, calendar of events, strategic plans
  • Links to individual schools
  • Brief statistics on educational finance and millage, MEAP scores and Michigan comparison; SAT and ACT scores with state and national comparisons

• Home Education Across the United States (National Home School Legal Defense Fund)
  • Brief national data from 1997 on students, test scores, family characteristics, and long-term success of home schooled students
  • Number of home school students by selected state

• Michigan Department of Education
  • Michigan Schools Report has reading, math and science scores for each K-12 school for past three years
  • Michigan K-12 Financial Data and Rankings for each school district
  • Enrollment in Michigan institutions of higher education by gender or race

• Michigan School Report
  • School district and school building information
  • Enrollment, free lunch eligibility, average teacher salary, pupil/teacher ratio, funding per student, dropout rates
  • Percent passing MEAP scores in the past three years

• National Public School and School District Locator (NCES)
  • 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
  • Separate search engine for school districts

• National School Report
  • Arranged by county with composite statistics for individual school districts
  • School population, student-teacher ratio, average elementary and secondary class size, computers in elementary schools, percent of high school students going to college
  • District composite SAT and ACT scores
  • A commercial real estate web site

• 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+

• Quality Counts - Public Education
  • Report on the quality of public elementary/secondary education
  • National and state data on student achievement, quality of teaching, school climate, and funding

• Public School Finance Peer District Search (NCES)
  • Choose school district and select automatic peers (student/teacher ratio, median household income, district type, metropolitan status) or individualized peer information (minority enrollment, povwerty, at-risk students)
  • Initial table shows per pupil expenditure for district in question, the state, the nation, and peers
  • List of peers provides individual district data on receipts, expenditures, community and school demographics

Technology

• Digital Living Room Consumer Index (Greenfield)
  • National survey data on computers by owner characteristics (education, marital status, children, computer use)
  • Money likely to spend on various types of equipment
• Falling through the Net II (NTIA)
  • Telephone, computer, modem, and e-mail ownership, 1994-97
  • Data by urban/rural, race, income, and education
  • Updates the 1995 report below

• Falling Through the Net - 1995
  • Summary of report by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration
  • Statistics on Internet access in rural and urban communities
  • Includes data on minority access at a national level

• Internet Access in Public Schools and Classrooms (NCES)
  • Percentage of schools and classrooms with Internet access, 1994, 1997 and 1998
  • National percentages by grade grouping, minority enrollment, and geographic area among others
  • Summary in HTML and full text in pdf

• Technology Counts 98 (Education Week)
  • Brief national data on technology use in the classroom and effect on standarized tests
  • State-by-state educational technology plans

Grants

• Education Department Grants
  • Grants, contracts, and other funding opportunities from the U.S. Department of Education
  • Searchable by subject, applicant eligibility, type of assistance, and level of education
  • Information includes program description, legislative authority, eligibility, appropriations, and contact information
  • A subset of the larger Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Student Achievement

• Ann Arbor Public Schools
  • School board members, news, calendar of events, strategic plans
  • Links to individual schools
  • Brief statistics on educational finance and millage, MEAP scores and Michigan comparison; SAT and ACT scores with state and national comparisons

• Michigan Department of Education
  • Michigan Schools Report has reading, math and science scores for each K-12 school for past three years
  • Michigan K-12 Financial Data and Rankings for each school district
  • Enrollment in Michigan institutions of higher education by gender or race

• Michigan School Report
  • School district and school building information
  • Enrollment, free lunch eligibility, average teacher salary, pupil/teacher ratio, funding per student, dropout rates
  • Percent passing MEAP scores in the past three years

• National Assessment of Educational Progress
  • Extensive reports on national and state test scores of 4th, 8th, and 12th grade students by various demographic characteristics
  • Separate surveys on science, mathematics, history, geography
  • All publications in Adobe Acrobat
  • A bibliography lists published NAEP documents since 1970

• National School Report
  • Arranged by county with composite statistics for individual school districts
  • School population, student-teacher ratio, average elementary and secondary class size, computers in elementary schools, percent of high school students going to college
  • District composite SAT and ACT scores
  • A commercial real estate web site

• Quality Counts - Public Education
  • Report on the quality of public elementary/secondary education
  • National and state data on student achievement, quality of teaching, school climate, and funding

• Third International Mathematics and Science Study
  • Test scores of U.S. fourth, eighth, and twelfth-graders in science and mathematics compared to 20 countries
  • Full text of reports and press releases with some in Adobe Acrobat format
  • Includes test questions and education packets

Student Characteristics

• Administration for Children and Families (U.S.)
  • ACF in the News includes press releases on child abuse, welfare, and child support

• Children in the States (Children's Defense Fund)
  • National and state data on demographic and economic characteristics
  • Child abuse, welfare payments, poverty, health problems, child care, homicides, suicides, and teen birth rate

• Childstats
  • Federal inter-agency web site about statistics on children
  • Key indicators of child well-being (population, economic, health, substance abuse, blood lead)
  • Special topics, such as fatherhood data
  • List of government contacts by subject and agency

• Kids Count
  • State and national data on child poverty, children living with working parents, salaries of child care workers, immunizations
  • State rankings on childhood death, crime, and poverty since 1985
  • Similar data for large metropolitan areas

• Monitoring the Future: 12th Grade Survey, 1995 (ICPSR)
  • Sample project for the International Archive of Educational Data
  • Demographic characteristics of 12th grade students combined with attitudes toward education, religion, military survey, and substance abuse
  • Sample Search
    • Click on Browse Codebook
    • Choose Standard Variables
    • Determine the variables you want (e.g. v150 is gender and v184 includes plans to attend graduate school)
    • Go back to main screen and choose Run Frequency
    • Choose columns and rows (e.g. v184 for rows; v150 for columns); choose percentages (e.g. column percentages)
    • Run Table

• National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse
  • Its Annual States Survey provides national data on child abuse by type, conditions, and results

• National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NCES)
  • Survey follows elementary school cohorts in 1988 through high school, dropout, post-secondary education, or the workforce
  • Interviews with students, teachers, and parents to determine success factors
  • Web site provides Data Analysis System for using data on a personal computer
  • Link to its gopher provides press releases in text format or zipped files
  • Technical Documentation for corresponding CD-ROM converted to HTML by Michelle Harvey of Documents Center staff

• National Incidence Study of Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Summary statistics on the increase of child abuse, 1986-93
  • Released by the Department of Health and Human Services on September 18, 1996

• Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth (DHHS)
  • National data on child population, economics and poverty, behavior, health, and education
  • Text with some graphs dating back to 1950
  • Adobe Acrobat format only

• Youth Indicators
  • Statistical data on home, health, schools, educational testing, and college plans

• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (CDC)
  • State and national data affecting health of young people
  • Includes eating habits, wearing motorcycle helmets, etc.
  • Surveys include weapons brought to school, engaging in physical fights, and feeling unsafe in school
  • Data available in various formats
  • The 1997 reports includes school violence in Tables 5-9

Dropout Rates

• Dropout Rates in the United States - 1996 (NCES)
  • School dropout rates by student characteristics (ethnicity, income, age) and status
  • Sections on immigration and people with disabilities
  • Most data is national with one table on high school completion by state
  • 1997 Drop Out Rates in pdf format only

Career Counseling

• Earnings by Occupation and Education (Oregon State)
  • Median hourly earnings, annual earnings, and number of hours worked for 514 individual occupations by age, race, sex, and educational attainment
  • Subject report from the 1990 Census of Population and Housing
  • Data for the United States, States, CMSAs, MSAs, and PMSAs
  • Select geography first; then either occupation OR occupation by race; at the next screen select variable (number employed, earnings, hours)

• Michigan Occupational Information System
  • Prepared by the Ingham Intermediate School District for the Michigan Jobs Commission
  • Description of 432 occupations with training, earnings, and outlook

• National Compensation Survey
  • Hourly salaries for wide range of individual occupations by various experience levels and private v. public employers
  • Annual or biennial data for large metropolitan areas
  • Text and Adobe Acrobat format

• National Industry-Occupation Employment Matrix (BLS)
  • Search over 500 occupations or 240 industries
  • Determine occupational employment within an industry (e.g. librarians in the automotive industry)
  • Provides 1996 data with projections to 2006

• O*NET (Employment and Training Administration)
  • Replaces the Dictionary of Occupational Titles
  • Determine personal skills and jobs that match or check jobs to determine skills needed for writing a job description
  • Extensive list of jobs with working conditions, skills needed and occupational outlook
  • The 1998 version is installed on the Census III computer in the Documents Center
  • Downloadable Version to a personal computer requires 6.6 MB

• Occupational Employment Statistics (BLS)
  • National data provides numbers employed as well as median and mean hourly earnings for 760 occupations
  • State data provides somewhat less occupational detail
  • Includes Standard Occupational Classification and proposed changes
  • Program new with 1996 survey

• Occupational Outlook Handbook (BLS)
  • Description of various occupations, typical duties
  • Employment and salary prospects

School Violence

• Annual Report on School Safety - 1998 (Dept of Educ)
  • Number of reported high school students carrying weapons to school and threats made by high-risk states and cities
  • Recommendations for ending school violence and model programs

• Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 1998 (NCES)
  • Text and graphs report fatal and nonfatal victimization of staff and students
  • Student and principal reports of drugs, guns, and gangs
  • National data often disaggregated by race or location (urban, rural) but no state or local information
  • Appendix lists measures taken by schools to insure safety

• National School Safety Center
  • Promotes safe school strategies
  • Numerous publications for purchase
  • School-Associated Violent Deaths (pdf)
    • List of individual school-associated murders since September 1992
    • Data includes date, name of school, name of victim, how victim killed, reason for incident, location of murder, and description of incident
    • Cumulative data on reasons for death, victims' gender, location, and state

• 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
  • Variables include sex, age, and race of student; family income; metropolitan/nonmetropolitan area; and public/private control
  • Text and pdf formats

• 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
  • Discipline preventive measures (e.g. school uniforms)

• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (CDC)
  • State and national data affecting health of young people
  • Includes eating habits, wearing motorcycle helmets, etc.
  • Surveys include weapons brought to school, engaging in physical fights, and feeling unsafe in school
  • Data available in various formats
  • The 1997 reports includes school violence in Tables 5-9

Comprehensive

• Schools and Staffing Survey (NCES)
  • Numerous reports and surveys on the teaching profession
  • Status of teachers, teacher satisfaction with position, continuing education, characteristics of minorities, teachers' sense of community
  • Includes surveys on both public and private schools
  • Most reports in pdf format

Teacher Assessment

• National Commission on Teaching and America's Future [http://www.tc.columbia.edu/~teachcomm/]
  • What Matters Most summarizes role of teachers in student development
  • Covers recruiting practices, educational development, rewards, and standards
  • Rates each state on hiring well-qualified teachers, teaching standards, and professional development

• Quality Counts - Public Education
  • Report on the quality of public elementary/secondary education
  • National and state data on student achievement, quality of teaching, school climate, and funding

• Teacher Quality: A Report on Teach Preparation and Qualifications of Public School Teachers (NCES)
  • Report and brief national statistics on teacher education, continuing education, specialization, and working conditions
  • HTML and PDF formats

Teacher Income

• Earnings by Occupation and Education (Oregon State)
  • Median hourly earnings, annual earnings, and number of hours worked for 514 individual occupations by age, race, sex, and educational attainment
  • Subject report from the 1990 Census of Population and Housing
  • Data for the United States, States, CMSAs, MSAs, and PMSAs
  • Select geography first; then either occupation OR occupation by race; at the next screen select variable (number employed, earnings, hours)

• Equal Employment Opportunity Census (Oregon State)
  • Data from 1990 Census for states, counties, MSAs, and cities of 50,000+
  • Data for 514 occupations by sex and race/Hispanic origin
  • Educational attainment by age, race, and sex

• Michigan School Report
  • School district and school building information
  • Enrollment, free lunch eligibility, average teacher salary, pupil/teacher ratio, funding per student, dropout rates
  • Percent passing MEAP scores in the past three years

• National Compensation Survey
  • Hourly salaries for wide range of individual occupations by various experience levels and private v. public employers
  • Annual or biennial data for large metropolitan areas
  • Text and Adobe Acrobat format

Professional Development

• Toward Better Teaching (NCES)
  • Report on professional development of teachers in 1993/94
  • Some state data on funding and release time for development as well as types of development offered

Key Organizations and Agencies

• Educational Associations (Michigan Teachers Network)
  • Well-annotated links to teacher, administrator, parent and assessment web sites

• Educational Associations (Michigan Association of School Boards
  • Annotated list of links to national associations, primarily of school boards

• State Education Departments (NASIRE) [http://www.nasire.org/stateSearch/ displayCategory.cfm?Category=education]
  • Lists state education departments as well as educational television, universities, and other education-related agencies
  • Coverage irregular depending on the state

• Michigan Department of Education
  • Michigan Schools Report has reading, math and science scores for each K-12 school for past three years
  • Michigan K-12 Financial Data and Rankings for each school district
  • Enrollment in Michigan institutions of higher education by gender or race

• National Center for Education Statistics (US)
  • Web server has the full text of the Digest of Education Statistics and Condition of Education
    • National data on schools, enrollment, and outcomes for all levels of education
  • On-line data is located under two sections of the main menu: Publications and Data/Surveys
    • Elementary, secondary, and higher education statistics; library, literacy, and international statistics
    • Includes the Schools Staffing Survey and Integrated Post-Secondary Education Survey
    • Also includes codebooks and press releases
  • Most information only available in Adobe Acrobat or compressed (zipped) format
  • Its gopher server is an alternative data dissemination vehicle

Statistical Indexes

• AskEric! (Syracuse University)
  • Index to research reports on education since 1966
  • Sample search: (statistics or data) and continuing education
  • Click on search results for abstracts of the publications listed
  • All publications available at the University of Michigan Graduate Library's Serials/Microforms Room
  • Full text of ERIC ED documents since 1996 available through ERIC Web Portal

• Education-At-A-Glance (NCES)
  • Combined search for tables in major statistical compendia
  • Includes Digest of Education Statistics, Condition of Education, Projections of Educational Statistics, Youth Indicators, Education Indicators: An International Perspective, Education in States and Nations
  • Sample searches: earnings and graduation, earnings and women and Germany

• EXCITE
  • Search engine for the web
  • Sample search: (statistics or data) AND "school violence"

• FedStats
  • Comprehensive listing to statistical programs of over 70 federal government agencies
  • Arranged by agency or program; includes explanatory material and contacts
  • Search engine indexes individual statistical tables by keyword or agency and provides direct connection

• Statistical Abstract of the United States
  • Compendium of government and non-government statistics, primarily on the national and state levels
  • Population and vital statistics, health, economics, education, manufacturing, natural resources, transportation, and U.S. Industrial Outlook (production and foreign trade by four-digit SIC for past six years)
  • Full text available in Adobe Acrobat format
  • State rankings and state/county profiles in HTML format
  • The full text of Statistical Abstract is available in most University of Michigan campus libraries as HA 202

• Statistical Resources on the Web
  • Twenty-three annotated web pages with annotated links to demographic, economic, government, health, environmental, education and sociological data
  • Frames index helps identify subjects

• Statistical Universe (UMich Only)
  • Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974; business, association and state government data since 1980, and international agencies since 1983
  • Access through the Statistical Sources menu
  • Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign country, by age, by disease)
    • Sample Search: educational attainment and by state
  • About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
  • For items not hot-linked:
    • Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to the Documents Center for the microfiche version
    • Consult Statistical Universe Guide for various web searching alternatives and a Slide Show for further details

Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
University of Michigan Library
Graphics by Sherry Piontek and Barbara Perles
Send comments and suggestions to graceyor@umich.edu

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/edstats.html

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