Library: U.S. and California Government Information: Statistical Resources

Caltech Library Government Documents

Caltech does not have a separate and discrete publicly-accessible U.S. government documents collection. Caltech is selective and integrates the material into the overall collection and in recent years puts priority on electronic resources.

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Statistics Sources

Agriculture Statistics
Agricultural Statistics is published each year to meet the diverse need for a reliable reference book on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns.
Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970 - PART 1
Census Data Mapper
The Census Data Mapper is a web mapping application intended to provide users with a simple interface to view, save and print county-based demographic maps of the United States. The data are from the 2020 Census.
Census Bureau - Publications by Topics
View the list of publications by year. This page displays the topics covered by the publications released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States - Colonial Times to 1970 - PART 2
Data.gov (formerly FedStats)
statistics from more than 100 agencies
Health US
Health, United States is an annual report on trends in health statistics.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research - ICPSR
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research -- lots of data, including a lot of US government agency data

Statistical Abstracts of the United States
Statistical Abstract data present here ranges from our most recent edition to the historical abstracts compiled throughout the decades. Some of the data were scanned as an effort to make historical abstract information available to the public. The display of data will continue as historical records become available.
USDA Economics and Statistics System
A collaborative project between Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University and several agencies of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The system contains nearly 2500 reports and datasets. These materials cover U.S. and international agriculture and related topics.
Vital Statistics of the United States
Annual reports that present detailed vital statistics data, including natality, mortality, marriage and divorce. These reports are available for download. Some are available as bound volumes in many large public and university libraries.

Local Depository Libraries

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