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SimplyMap
Geographic Research, Inc.
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.web/simplymap
SimplyMap is a web-based mapping site that allows users to create thematic maps and reports using demographic, business and marketing data. The product is particularly strong for recent estimates and projections, at geographic levels as small as ZIP codes, census tracts, or block groups. SimplyMap draws on Census 2000 data, 2006 & 2007 Census estimates, 2011 & 2012 Census projections. Other groups of variables include consumer expenditures, consumer price index, business counts, market segments, retail sales, and sales potential. Note: UW-Madison subscribes to SimplyMap via IP authentication. Each user must also register at the SimplyMap site to create a personal workspace.
PolicyMap
The Reinvestment Fund
http://www.policymap.com/
PolicyMap is a geographic information system that lets users map, graph, and organize data relevant to neighborhood planning and economic revitalization. The site carries data on demographics, real-estate, crime, income, education, and jobs – over 4,000 indicators. Depending on the data, maps and reports can be focused on areas as small as block groups or census tracts, or as large as states.
The site has many components available with a free registration, and others available to subscribers only. The free data comes from such agencies as the Census, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the Social Security Administration (SSA), and other US government agencies. Fee-based, subscriber-only data comes mostly from Claritas, a consumer-data and demographics firm that produces projections and annual small-area estimates. Subscribers can also upload data and create custom mapping regions. (UW-Madison does not subscribe).
The oldest data is from the 2000 Census, while the most current is the 2008 Presidential Contributions by state and ZIP code. A complete list of PolicyMap data can be found at http://www.policymap.com/our-data.html.
Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008
Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Richmond
http://www.americanpast.org/voting/
The Voting America site presents animated maps of presidential election data at the county level across time (actual returns, margin of victory, party strength, population, voter turnout).
The centerpiece of the animated "cinematic maps" is a timeline tour through presidential election data from 1840 onward. Cinematic maps for individual elections show a series of thematic maps, from state results to county results to numbers of votes to margins of victory. Another series of cinematic maps shows population growth over time for white and African American residents. Users can also choose "interactive maps" and pick their own years and indicators to display. An additional section of the site provides analysis and commentary in video form.
The underlying data for the Voting America site come from ICPSR study #8611 for the years 1840-1972, and from Polidata for 1976-2004.
Chad - National Institute of Statistics and Economic and Demographic Studies
http://www.inseed-tchad.org/
The statistical agency site for Chad (Institut National de la Statistique, des Etudes Economiques et Démographiques (INSEED)) carries social and economic statistics, primarily in HTML tables. In French only.
Central African Republic - Division of Statistics and Economic and Social Studies
http://www.stat-centrafrique.com/ The Central African Republic's statistical agency site (Direction Générale de la Statistique, des Etudes Economiques et Sociales) carries social and economic statistics, in French only. Requires a Java Runtime plugin.
Cayman Islands - Economics and Statistics Office
http://www.eso.ky/
The Economics and Statistics Office of the Cayman Islands presents social and economic statistics, primarily in PDF documents.
Cape Verde - National Statistical Institute
http://www.ine.cv/
The National Statistical Institute of Cape Verde (Instituto Nacional de Estatística Cabo Verde) presents their web site in Portuguese only. A database of official statistics (Base de Dados de Estatísticas Oficiais, BDEO) is available upon free registration; the site also links to statistics presented by other Cape Verde agencies such as agriculture, health, education, labor, and justice.
Burkina Faso - National Institute of Statistics and Demography (INSD)
http://www.insd.bf/
Burkina Faso's National Institute of Statistics and Demography (Institut National de la Statistique et de la Démographie, INSD) presents their website in French only. The site contains publications (generally in PDF) such as a statistical yearbook and reports on various surveys including the population census; and various social and economic statistics in HTML tables.
Bermuda - Department of Statistics
http://www.gov.bm/portal/server.pt?space=CommunityPage&control=SetCommunity&CommunityID=227
The Department of Statistics for Bermuda carries social and economic statistics, including up-to-date monthly reports for consumer price index and retail sales. Additional topics include the census and other national surveys.
Benin - National Institute of Statistics and Economic Analysis
http://www.insae-bj.org/ Economic and social statistics for the Republic of Benin, primarily in PDF or HTML, with one downloadable MS-Access database labeled "Base des séries temporelles." In French only.
Bahamas - Department of Statistics
http://www.gov.ai/statistics/
The Department of Statistics site for the Bahamas includes social and economic statistics in PDF and HTML tables. See the "Statistics" menu for links to tables; the documents listed under "Publications and Reports" do not appear to be available online.
Antigua and Barbuda - Reports and Statistics
http://www.ab.gov.ag/gov_v2/government/statsandreports/
The Reports and Statistics page for the government of Antigua and Barbuda includes a small selection of reports, mostly focusing on tourism. The page also includes a PDF report on the 2001 Census, and several documents listing the names and test scores of top students.
Anguilla Statistics Department
http://www.gov.ai/statistics/ Anguilla, a British dependency in the Caribbean, carries social and economic statistics on its Statistics Department website. Most documents are in PDF and HTML, with economic sections such as consumer price index and balance of trade being more up to date than most of the social indicators.
Afghanistan - Central Statistics Office
Central Statistics Office
http://www.cso-af.net/cso/index.php?page=1&language=en
The Central Statistics Office website carries social and economic statistics for Afghanistan. Documents are in PDF and Excel; many of the PDF documents on the site are pages from the Afghanistan Statistical Yearbook. The site also features a query system for the National Risk and Vulnerability Assessment from 2005 and 2007/08.
European Data Center for Work and Welfare (EDACwowe)
University of Tilburg; Danish National Centre for Social Research
http://www.edacwowe.eu/en/
The European Data Center for Work and Welfare (EDACwowe) is a searchable collection of annotated links to websites containing data for European research and policy-making in the areas of work and welfare. The central topics covered by the site are income and benefits, social care, and work and employment. However, the links also touch on related fields such as demographics, education, taxes, health, migration, politics and elections, and quality of life. EDACwowe organizes its site, via a left-hand menubar, around the categories of Comparative Data, National Data, and International Repositories. The Comparative Data category is the most detailed, with subheadings for opinion surveys, socio-economic surveys, indicators and statistics, and policies and institutions. Each survey in the Comparative Data category gets a multi-part description on the EDACwowe site, from survey type to participating countries to topics to availability and searchability of questionnaires and data. The National Data category, by contrast, gives only links and archive names, and the International Repositories category gives a short descriptive paragraph for each link.
USA Counties
U.S. Bureau of the Census
http://censtats.census.gov/usa/usa.shtml
The USA Counties database is a part of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Censtat collection of online tools. The drop-down menu system allows users to create reports for the United States, the 50 states and the District of Columbia, or any of the 3,141 counties and county equivalents. Topics include: age, agriculture, ancestry, banking, building permits, business patterns, crime, earnings, education, elections, employment, government, health, households, housing, income, labor force, manufactures, population, poverty, retail trade, social programs, veterans, vital statistics, water use, and wholesale trade. The data comes not only from the U.S. Census but also from other federal agencies such as Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Social Security Administration. In April 2008, the Census Bureau announced that downloadable data files in Excel format have been added to the USA Counties site. Users can now bypass the drop-down menus and directly download files by topic, each file containing data for all of the counties nationwide.
TrafficSTATS
Carnegie Mellon University; AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
http://www.aaafoundation.org/trafficSTATS/
The Traffic Statistics on Travel Safety site (TrafficSTATS) provides a tool for calculating traffic safety risks on various dimensions. Using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System and the National Household Travel Survey, users can compare fatality risks for combinations of modes of transportation (e.g. car, SUV, motorcycle), demographic variables (e.g. age, gender), and other parameters (e.g. day of week, region of US). This can lead to combinations such as "teenagers driving at night in the summer" or "women over the age of 55 on motorcycles." Risks are stated in deaths per 100 million passenger miles, deaths per 100 million trips, and deaths per 100 million minutes of travel. Results can be downloaded in various formats such as XML, CSV, and Excel.
California Department of Health Care Services: Data & Statistics
http://www.dhcs.ca.gov/dataandstats/Pages/default.aspx
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) finances and administers a number of individual health care service delivery programs, including the California Medical Assistance Program (Medi-Cal). The Data & Statistics page links to data resources such as Indian Health Data and Medi-Cal Drug Utilization Data; results from the California Women's Health Survey; and County Health Statistics.
California Department of Public Health: Data & Statistics
http://ww2.cdph.ca.gov/data/Pages/default.aspx
The California Department of Public Health is California's center for vital statistics, health interview surveys, and data on disease, injury, and health indicators. Online query systems include Ask CHIS (California Health Interview Survey), EPICenter (California Injury Data), County and Statewide Archive of Tobacco Statistics, and Vital Statistics Query System (VSQS). Downloadable data tables include statistics on birth, breastfeeding, death, communicable disease, fetal death, and HIV/AIDS. The site also carries a section on GIS maps and interactive online mapping for California public health indicators.
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