Statistics can often help you to defend your documented argument. If you find information on a clinical trial that gives you the number of people studied and the results of the study, you can draw conclusions about the efficacy of a particular therapy in medical practice.
If you are studing criminal justice, you may be looking for statistics on particular types of crimes or methods of law enforcement.
In both cases suggested above, supporting statistics will help you to make a more effective argument.
In the box below you will find links to social and health statistic information. In the box at left you will find general statistical information for the United States
Agriculture
NAL Reports, studies and statistics
National Agriculture Statistics Service
Agricultural Statistics Annual
National Agricultural Library (NAL) Agricola database
Crime
Federal Bureau of Investigation Reports & Publications
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Homeland Security publications
Defense/Military
Department of Defense facts and statistics
Department of Defense publications
National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics (NCVAS)
Disasters
Water Resources of Georgia (including flooding)
FEMA Disaster Survivor Assistance
Economic Conditions
– Latest Numbers – Consumer Price Index (CPI), Unemployment Rate…
– Subject areas – Inflation & Prices, Unemployment, Employment, Pay, and Benefits
– Featured Publications
o Occupational Outlook Handbook
o Monthly Labor Review
FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)
– Categories
o Banking
o Consumer Price Index (CPI)
o Gives Notes: Understanding the CPI – View Data (graph is default)
o Time Series
o Exchange Rates
o Employment & Population
o Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Components
o Interest Rates
o Producer Price Indexes (PPI)
o U.S. Trade and International Transactions
o U.S. Financial Data
o Regional Data
o Economic Research & Data
- Statistical Releases and Historical Data
o Consumer Credit
o Foreign Exchange Rates
o Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States
o Debt growth
o Mortgage Debt Outstanding
– Bureau of Economic Analysis
– Search by Date (1994 to current)
– GDP and Other Major NIPA (national income & product accounts) Series (1929 to current)
Economic Indicators, (1995 to current; 1948 to current via FRASER, from the St. Louis Federal Reserve )
– Monthly; prepared by the Council of Economic Advisers for the Joint Economic Committee
– Consumer Price Index
– Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
– Unemployment Rates
– New Construction
– Industrial Production
– Federal Finance
o Federal Receipts, Outlays, and Debt
o Interest Rates and Bond Yields