Research Guides: Statistics and Data: General Statistics and Data

General Statistics and Data

General Search Tools

Statista
A Rider subscription database for researching statistical information. Need to log in with Rider Easy Pass if you access this from an off-campus site
Statistical Abstract of the United States - Historical
Statistical Abstract of the U.S. from 1889 to 2012 and Historical Statistics of the U. S supplements.
Census QuickFacts
USAGov: Data & Statistics
Data.gov
The central clearinghouse for federal open data, including hosting the Public Data Listings required under the 2013 Federal Open Data Policy, but Data.gov also hosts state, local, and tribal government sources voluntarily.
United Nations Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online
Data Planet
Government Resources of Rider University
Including other statistics on national, New Jersey, and international topics.
Harvard Dataverse

Our World in Data (Oxford University, Global Change Data Lab)
"Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on."

Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems Data Repository
The UCI is a collection of databases, domain theories, and data generators that are used by the machine learning community. These datasets can be accessed through Excel.
Data.gov
The home of the U.S. Government's Open Data. This information can be accessed through Excel.
Data.gov.uk
This website allows users to find open data published by various governmental bodies in the UK. All of the data can be accessed through CSV or Excel.
Google Dataset Search
This new tool by Google allows you to search for metadata for millions of datasets in various repositories across the internet. The data comes in various formats depending where it comes from.
International OECD Statistics
The data provided by the OECD covers a wide range of topics, such as agriculture, the environment, the economy, and jobs. The datasets can be accessed through downloadable CSV files or tables that can be exported.
Microsoft Research Open Data
A collection of free datasets from Microsoft Research to advance state-of-the-art research in areas such as natural language processing, computer vision, and domain specific sciences. Download or copy directly to a cloud-based Data Science Virtual Machine for a seamless development experience.
National Centers for Environmental Data
The NCEI is responsible for providing comprehensive atmospheric, oceanic, and geophysical data. While some of the information has to be paid for, the free datasets can be downloaded as CSV files.