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The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations. WSU only access.

FedStats provides access to the full range of official statistical information produced by the Federal Government without having to know in advance which Federal agency produces which particular statistic. With convenient searching and linking capablilties to more than 100 agencies that provide data and trend information on such topics as economic and population trends, crime, education, health care, aviation safety, energy use, farm production and more, FedStats is your one location for access to the full breadth of Federal statistical information.

The Census Bureau conducts nearly one hundred surveys and censuses every year. By law, no one is permitted to reveal information from these censuses and surveys that could identify any person, household, or business. Data from the following surveys and censuses are available in American FactFinder:

This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books.

The County and City Data Book is the most comprehensive source of information about the individual counties and cities in the United States. It includes data for all U.S. states, counties, and cities with a population of 25,000 or more. It contains additional data for places with a population of 100,000 or more. Also included is a complete set of state maps showing all counties, places of 25,000 or more population, and metropolitan areas.

USA Counties features over 6,300 data items for the United States, States and counties from a variety of sources. Files include data published for 2010 population as well as many other items from the 2010 Census of Population and Housing , the 1990 census, the 1980 census and the 2007, 2002, 1997, and 1992 economic censuses.

Information in the State and Metropolitan Area Data Book covers the following topical areas: age, agriculture, births, business establishments, communications, construction, cost of living, crime, deaths, education, elections, employment, energy, finance, government, health, households, housing, immigration, income, manufactures, marriages and divorces, media, natural resources, population, poverty, race and Hispanic origin, residence, retail sales, science and engineering, social services, tourism, transportation, and veterans.

QuickFacts includes statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with more than 5,000 people.

Applinks is a web utility application that provides easy access to an array of web applications for a specified geographic area. The Applinks application is invoked via a URL which includes a series of geographic code parameters that are used to create a dynamic menu page.

ICPSR, the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, provides access to the worlds largest archive of computer-based research and instructional data for the social sciences. The data holdings cover a broad range of disciplines.

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

DataFerrett is a unique data analysis and extraction tool-with recoding capabilities-to customize federal, state, and local data to suit your requirements.

Internet Crossroads contains over 950 annotated links to data-related resources on the Internet.

The MPC is one of the world's leading developers of demographic data resources. We provide population data to thousands of researchers, policymakers, teachers, and students. All MPC data are available free over the internet.

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Greene, Evarts Boutell, and Virginia D. Harrington. 1966. American population before the Federal census of 1790. Gloucester, Mass: P. Smith.

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Carter, Susan B. 2006. Historical statistics of the United States. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. http://hsus.cambridge.org/HSUSWeb.

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United States. 1975. Historical statistics of the United States colonial times to 1970. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS55561.

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Kurian, George Thomas, and George Thomas Kurian. 2004. Datapedia of the United States American history in numbers. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=118542.