http://wwww.lib.uconn.edu Social Science and Geospatial Data Services en-us Copyright 2008 UConn Libraries http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 06 May 2008 06:11:05 EST http://www.lib.uconn.edu/graphics/signature.jpg http://www.lib.uconn.edu/ssgs NACJD acquires, archives, processes, and provides access to computer-readable criminal justice data collections for research and instruction. The NACJD website provides free access to over 550 criminal justice data collections on topics such as courts, court case processing, corrections, criminal justice system, police, crime and delinquency, vicitimization, and drugs, alcohol, and crime collections free of charge. http:// Adherents.com is a growing collection of over 43,870 adherent statistics and religious geography citations: references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc. http://www.adherents.com/ Comprehensive statistical tables and more in-depth narrative reporting of agricultural production in the U.S. and beyond http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/Agoutlook/AOTables/ Sponsored by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, AI-GEOSTATS provides a gateway to geospatial information. http://www.ai-geostats.org/ US Census Bureau, provides tables and maps of all census (1990 & 2000 tracts) geographies to the block level. http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en US Census Bureau, provides tables and maps of all census (1990 & 2000 tracts) geographies to the block level. http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en Provides national survey data of American electorate in presidential and midterm election years, includes Time-Series Studies, Research & Development (Pilot) Studies, Senate Election Studies, 1982 Methods Comparison Study, and Panel Studies http://www.electionstudies.org/ Data on American and international religion using online features for generating national profiles, maps, church membership overviews, denominational heritage trees, tables, charts, and other summary reports. http://www.thearda.com/ Links to international and consolidated banking statistics as well as securities and derivatives statistics. Also included are Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank Statistics on External Debt. http://www.bis.org/statistics/index.htm Provides data on the U.S. murder rate, drug use, crime rates, arrests, prison population and reports on such subjects as violence against women, capital punishment, drugs and crime, guns used in crimes, and prison populations. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/ Public health data on topics such as: AIDS, accidents, assistive reproductive technology, asthma, allergies, births, behavioral risk factors, bridged-race population estimates, cancer, chronic disease prevention, death, hazardous substance release and health effects, occupational hazards, population estimates, sexually transmitted diseases, vaccine adverse events. http://wonder.cdc.gov/ CIESIN works at the intersection of the social, natural, and information sciences, and specializes in on-line data and information management, spatial data integration and training, and interdisciplinary research related to human interactions in the environment. http://www.ciesin.columbia.edu/ Extracts coastline segments bounded by a specified latitude/longitude range and plots the extracted coast. http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/shorelines.html The Connecticut DEP provides GIS data available for download. GIS feature data is in Shapefile format and raster data (imagery) is in MrSid format. All files are in .exe format for easy downloading. Each dataset is in the Connecticut NAD83 Coordinate System. http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.asp?a=2698&q=322898 PDF. http://www.nass.usda.gov/census/census02/volume1/ct/CTVolume104.pdf Wide range of statistical measures for cities, counties, and states in the US. Also available via <a href='http://homerweb.lib.uconn.edu'>HOMER</a>. http://www.census.gov/statab/www/ccdb.html County Business pattern files in csv (comma-separated values) format from 1988 - 2001. Files from 1988 - 1997 use Standard Industrial Classification (SIC), files from 1998 - 2001 use the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) descriptions. http://www.census.gov/epcd/cbp/download/cbpdownload.html Data on fundraising, party voting alignment of members of Congress, interest group ratings, and analysis of key votes in the House and Senate. http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/1229 Provides downloadable State data on crime trends and homicide trends. Also, includes statistics on law enforcement management and prosecutors' offices http://bjsdata.ojp.usdoj.gov/dataonline/Search/Crime/State/statebystatelist.cfm Crime in the United States (CIUS) is an annual publication in which the FBI compiles volume and rate of crime offenses for the nation, the states, and individual agencies. This report also includes arrest, clearance, and law enforcement employee data. http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm Pilot project designed to provide interactive access to Federal Reserve Board data. This application allows users to create custom datasets to download in machine readable electronic formats (Excel, CSV, XML). http://www.federalreserve.gov/datadownload/ Includes data on states with and without death penalty, inmates on death row by state and race, and size of death row populations since 1968 http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/ 200,000+ time series for economic research, especially economic forecasting. Core data sets involve US macroeconomic data, but bulk is employment data by local area. Excel' files for all series, customizable charts, XY Plots and Regressions--turn on Advanced Features toolbar. http://www.economagic.com/ GPO Access, select Downloadable Reports/Tables http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/index.html Data and statistics on energy use, resources, fuels, and generation in the United States. http://www.eia.doe.gov/ Data collected by the EPA. Includes the yearly Toxic Release Inventory. http://www.epa.gov/enviro/ Provides economic, political and geographic information and statistical data by country. Includes over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/978 Public Opinion Analysis sector of the European Commission, addresses major topics concerning European citizenship: enlargement, social situation, health, culture, information technology, environment, the Euro, defence, etc http://europa.eu.int/comm/public_opinion/index_en.htm FAOSTAT provides access to over 3 million time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture. FAOSTAT contains data for 200 countries and more than 200 primary products and inputs, just in its core. http://faostat.fao.org/ Quarterly publication that provides detailed aggregate financial information as well as key structural data (number of institutions and branches) for all FDIC-insured institutions, can dynamically generate reports. http://www2.fdic.gov/SDI/SOB/ Quarterly publication that provides detailed aggregate financial information as well as key structural data (number of institutions and branches) for all FDIC-insured institutions, can dynamically generate reports. http://www2.fdic.gov/SDI/SOB/ Statistical tables on the caseload of the federal Judiciary for the 12-month period ending March 31 address the work of the U.S. courts of appeals, district courts and bankruptcy courts, as well as the federal probation and pretrial services system. Contains charts and summary text discussing reasons for increases and decreases in the courts' caseload. Judicial Caseload Indicators table compares the Judiciary's current fiscal year caseload to its caseload 1, 5, and 10 years earlier. Publications dating back to 2001 are available online. http://www.uscourts.gov/caseloadstatistics.html From FAO. Capture, production, fleet, consumption, and trade databases. http://www.fao.org/fi/website/FIRetrieveAction.do?dom=org&xml=FIDI_STAT_org.xml&xp_nav=3,1,1 Data on developments affecting global markets for food and feed commodities http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/economic/giews/english/fo/index.htm From the USDA Economic Research Service; data products provide information on agricultural trade with the world; production, consumption, and trade of principal crops, livestock, oilseed meals and oils; and agricultural budget outlays. http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/FATUS/ Time series coverage of building starts, consumer price indexes, employment figures, GDP, interest rates, production and prices. Financial data include foreign exchange rates and selected interest rates. http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ Polls by general subject, poll releases in chronological order, poll trends, social and economic indicator polls. Please note that Gallup Poll Results are also available through LexisNexis Academic http://www.gallup.com/ Authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Online database holds 400+ different variables such as national, subregional, regional, and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/ Provides access to geographic content from hundreds of organizations around the world. Content ranges from dynamic map services viewed online to static geographic data sets that can be downloaded for use with mapping software. http://www.geographynetwork.com/ Standardized data and statistics for infectious diseases at country, regional, and global levels. The analysis and interpretation of data are further supported through information on demography, socioeconomic conditions, and environmental factors. http://gamapserver.who.int/GlobalAtlas/home.asp GDF Online provides financial data on 136 developing countries for indicators including long-term debt, public and publicly guaranteed debt, private nonguaranteed debt, official creditors, and private creditors. From the World Bank. 1970-future projections. http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/1097 Economic, financial, and political coverage of countries, regions, and industries. Covers over 200 countries and spans over 170 industries. http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/1047 A 30-arc-second (1 km)-gridded, quality-controlled global Digital Elevation Model (DEM) (select 'Get GLOBE Data'). http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/topo/globe.html GIS and maps available for download or use. A creation of the Government of Norway and UNEP following the 1987 World Summit on Environment and Development, located in Arendal, Norway. http://tromoya.grida.no/db/gis/prod/html/toc.htm Global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer). GTOPO30 was derived from several raster and vector sources of topographic information. Completed in late 1996, GTOPO30 was developed over a three year period through a collaborative effort led by staff at the U.S. Geological Survey's EROS Data Center (EDC). http://edc.usgs.gov/products/elevation/gtopo30/gtopo30.html Nationally representative polls, conducted both by telephone and online, measure, and trend, the knowledge, opinions, behaviors and motivation of the general public. New survey data on a wide variety of subjects including politics, the economy, healthcare, foreign affairs, science and technology, sports and entertainment, and lifestyles are published weekly http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/ Statistics of the United States, covering population, work and welfare, economics, governance, and international relations. Primary data. Census data starts c1790; some data available from the 1600s; available through 2000 census. 1700s-current. http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/1437 Statistics of the United States, covering population, work and welfare, economics, governance, and international relations. Primary data. Census data starts c1790; some data available from the 1600s; available through 2000 census. 1700s-current. http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/1437 'Data will encompass the 'inputs' to education (funding, personnel, teaching resources, facilities, teacher and student preparation, etc.), the variety of processes by which teaching and learning occur, and the 'outputs' of education (graduation and matriculation rates, drop-out rates, test scores, job placements, life histories, life assessments, etc.)' (description on Web site). http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/IAED/ UConn is a member of of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, allowing students and faculty access to a vast archive of social science datasets for research and instruction. http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/1122 UConn is a member of of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, allowing students and faculty access to a vast archive of social science datasets for research and instruction http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/1122 National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Common Core of Data (CCD), the primary database on public elementary and secondary education in the US. CCD survey annually collects data about all public elementary and secondary schools, all local education agencies, and all state education agencies throughout the U.S. http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/ccddata.asp Searchable questionnaire database for the Louis Harris polls, the Carolina and Southern Focus Polls, and National Network of State Polls surveys http://www.irss.unc.edu/data_archive/pollsearch.html Encompass international transactions accounts (balance of payments), international investment positions accounts (accumulated stocks of US-owned assets abroad and foreign-owned assets in the US), estimates of US direct investment abroad, foreign direct investment in the U.S. http://www.bea.gov/bea/di1.htm Judicial Facts and Figures is a set of tables containing historical caseload data primarily for the fiscal years 1990, 1995 and 2000 through 2005. All tables are in PDF. This publication includes data on the U.S. Courts of Appeals, the U.S. District Courts, and the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts. For each court, it covers data on number of cases filed, terminated, and pending. http://www.uscourts.gov/judicialfactsfigures/contents.html Main ILO database on labour statistics covering economically active population (data since 1945), employment, underemployment, employment by sex for detailed occupational groups (1970-2000), hours of work, wages, labour cost, consumer prices, occupational injuries and strikes and lockouts (data since 1969) http://laborsta.ilo.org/ US Census Bureau, combines federal and state administrative data on employers and employees with core Census Bureau censuses and surveys while protecting the confidentiality of people and firms that provide the data http:// MAGIC's Web site is a library of digital geospatial information. The data available are in the public domain. MAGIC collects data that primarily relate to Connecticut. All data have either been processed in-house, or were received for public use. Data available include general layer data (e.g., roads, soils, railroads, hydrography) from several sources, Census data (including TIGER files), and aerial photographs. http://magic.lib.uconn.edu Data on the cost and use of health care and health insurance coverage http://www.meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/ Database of the 8 goals, 18 targets, and 48 indicators defined in the United Nations Millenneum Declaration for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mi/mi_goals.asp Includes Census of Agriculture and many other data sources http://www.nass.usda.gov/ NACJD acquires, archives, processes, and provides access to computer-readable criminal justice data collections for research and instruction. The NACJD website provides free access to over 550 criminal justice data collections on topics such as courts, court case processing, corrections, criminal justice system, police, crime and delinquency, vicitimization, and drugs, alcohol, and crime collections free of charge. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/ In addition to providing high-quality, small-scale maps, the Atlas includes authoritative national geospatial and geostatistical data sets. Examples of digital geospatial data include soils, county boundaries, volcanoes, and watersheds. The Atlas includes easy-to-use online interactive maps. http://www-atlas.usgs.gov/index.html Principle source of information on the health of the population of the United States. Topics include: health and nutritional status and health care utilization. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/express.htm Collection of digital maps created at the Geospatial and Statistical Center using public domain data sets. Coverages available from the DLG data are: State Boundary, County Boundaries, National Parks and Forests, Hydrography, and Major Cities. http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/maps/genmaps/natmaps.html Time series data (some as early as 1929) for GDP, National Income and Product Accounts, chain-type price and quantity indices, personal savings as a percentage of disposable personal income, computer purchases in selected components of GDP. http://www.bea.gov/bea/dn1.htm Since 1991, USGS scientists with the NAWQA program have been collecting and analyzing data and information in more than 50 major river basins and aquifers across the Nation. The goal is to develop long-term consistent and comparable information on streams, ground water, and aquatic ecosystems to support sound management and policy decisions. http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/ US Government's monthly survey of unemployment and labor force participation http://www.nber.org/data/cps_index.html Joint effort between National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and US Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies (CES). Contains annual industry-level data on output, employment, payroll and other input costs, investment, capital stocks, TFP, and various industry-specific price indexes. The database covers all 4-digit manufacturing industries from 1958-1996, in two versions: 1987 SIC codes (459 industries) and 1972 SIC codes (448 industries). http://www.nber.org/nberces/ Links to Survey & Program Areas, ED Stats at a Glance, Quick Tables & Figures, NCES Fast Facts, Data Tools. http://nces.ed.gov/ http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/New_England/index.asp North American Jewish Data Bank is the central repository of social scientific studies of North American Jewry. http://www.jewishdatabank.org Data and indicators on: demography, socioeconomic, mortality by cause indicators, morbidity and risk factors, and access, resources and health services coverage. http://www.paho.org/english/dd/ais/coredata.htm Gene maps primarily for agriculturally important crops, and links to other resources http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/PLANTS/PlantList.html Covers poverty thresholds (1980-1998), poverty data from Current Population Report 1958-1998, materials on methodology of poverty calculation, and links to related sites such as Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), Current Population Survey (CPS), American Community Survey (APS), Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE). http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty.html Covers poverty thresholds (1980-1998), poverty data from Current Population Report 1958-1998, materials on methodology of poverty calculation, and links to related sites such as Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), Current Population Survey (CPS), American Community Survey (APS), Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE). http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty.html Poverty monitoring, including income poverty, social indicators, estimates of inequality, GNP per capita, India Datasets. Links to World Bank's Poverty Monitoring Database, Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS), and Household Expenditure & Income Data for Transitional Economies Web site. http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTPOVERTY/0,,menuPK:336998%7EpagePK:149018%7EpiPK:149093%7EtheSitePK:336992,00.html The World Bank Group tracks information 2,700+ infrastructure projects with private investment in energy, telecommunications, transport, and water and sewerage sectors in low- and middle-income countries, data available from 1984 to 2002. http://ppi.worldbank.org/ Tracks information 2,700+ infrastructure projects with private investment in energy, telecommunications, transport, and water and sewerage sectors in low- and middle-income countries, data available from 1984 to 2002. http://ppi.worldbank.org/ Tracks information 2,700+ infrastructure projects with private investment in energy, telecommunications, transport, and water and sewerage sectors in low- and middle-income countries, data available from 1984 to 2002. http://ppi.worldbank.org/ Marketing & information service, contains information on current investment opportunities in developing countries and economies in transition. Database of background data features fact sheet summaries of privatization program in key countries and regions, information on institutions involved in privatization, privatization program and progress details to date, and details of relevant laws and bidding procedures (from Web site). http://www.privatizationlink.com/topic/statdata.cfm University of Michigan - Longitudinal survey, representative sample of US individuals and their families, ongoing since 1968, data collected annually, full span of information collected over course of the study. Includes data sets, codebook, and questionnaires. http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/ Set of economic indicators-including employment, job creation, wages, and worker turnover-that can be queried by different levels of geography-state, county, metro, and workforce investment area-as well as by detailed industry, gender, and age of workers http://lehd.dsd.census.gov/led/datatools/qwi-online.html Includes State & Local Personal Income, Gross State Product (GSP), Regional Input-Output Modeling System (RIMS II), BEA's Regional FACT Sheet (BEARFACTS). http://www.bea.gov/regional/rims/ Includes State & Local Personal Income, Gross State Product (GSP), Regional Input-Output Modeling System (RIMS II), BEA's Regional FACT Sheet (BEARFACTS). http://www.bea.gov/regional/rims/ Archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion, mostly from the US. The data held range from the 1930s, to the present. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/ Archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion, mostly from the US. The data held range from the 1930s, to the present. http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/ Roper Center Public Opinion Archives provides access to nearly 8,000 US nationwide public opinion surveys, and nearly as many studies from other countries. The University of Connecticut community has access to the Roper Center's iPOLL online database, a public survey database organized at the question-level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on surveys since 1935 and updated daily. Many more survey datasets can be downloaded in their entirety through RoperExpress. http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/1188 Roper Center Public Opinion Archives provides access to nearly 8,000 US nationwide public opinion surveys, and nearly as many studies from other countries. The University of Connecticut community has access to the Roper Center's iPOLL online database, a public survey database organized at the question-level, providing the tools to sift through nearly a half million questions asked on surveys since 1935 and updated daily. Many more survey datasets can be downloaded in their entirety through RoperExpress. http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/1188 School Enrollment data are collected annually in the October Current Population Survey (CPS, CP-20) for the Nation. Detailed information from recent surveys and historical trends in selected topics are available as well. Some files go back to 1947 http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/school.html National Bureau of Economic Research, special tabulation of 1990 Census long forms by school district boundary and children's ages. Covers large number of combinations of household type, race, income etc. Categorized by children's age, grade level or enrollment status. http://www.nber.org/sddb/ Gateway to soil surveys, soil classification, GIS data, etc. http://soils.usda.gov/survey/geography/ The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. These data are displayed in over 600 tables. The Sourcebook is supported by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. Data tables are organized into six topical sections: criminal justice characteristics; public opinion; crime, victims; arrests,seizures; courts, prosecution, sentencing; parole, jails, prisons, death penalty. http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/ Coverage includes: agriculture & food; economic outlook; education; health; science & technology, and much more. NOTES: UConn has access to the OECD statistical databases ONLY. http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/1116 Statistics on health and health care systems of the OECD economies. Topics include: health status, health care resources, utilization, financing, expenditures, social protection, pharmaceutical market, non-medical health determinants, and demographic and economic references. http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/1116 Current U.S. and international business, economic, and trade statistics from the Department of Commerce. http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/936 Current U.S. and international business, economic, and trade statistics from the Department of Commerce. http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/936 Current and historical economic and financial releases and economic data for the United States. Data includes general economic indicators; housing and construction; manufacturing and industry; monetary statistics; and economic policy. http://lib.uconn.edu/online/databases/ERM//showResource.php?ElectronicResourceID=1051&liaisonEditSubjectPage= Access subscription databases available to the UConn community. http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/subjects/2057;all Indicators of economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean. http://www.eclac.cl/badestat/anuario/eng.htm Nationwide survey that examines how Americans in the labor force perceive their near-term economic future, asked as a periodic module of the WISCON Survey (ongoing project of the University of Wisconsin Survey Center). http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/econexpect/Index.html Links include Statistics of Income (SOI), IRS Statistical Overview, Products, Publications and Papers for the study of population, Taxpayer Compliance Research. http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/taxstats/index.html Includes series on Real GDP, Population, Employment, Annual Working Hours, GDP per capita, per person employed and per hour for maximum 99 countries from 1950 forward. http://www.ggdc.net/dseries/totecon.html Comprehensive computerized information system at the HS-based tariff line level covering tariff, para-tariff and non-tariff measures as well as import flows by origin for more than 140 countries http://r0.unctad.org/trains/ Employment, earnings, occupation & consumer spending statistics collected by the U.S. Department of Labor http://www.bls.gov Employment, earnings, occupation & consumer spending statistics collected by the U.S. Department of Labor http://www.bls.gov/ Established in 1964, UNCTAD promotes the development-friendly integration of developing countries into the world economy. This site contains links to data under both the Programmes and Statistics tabs, as well as direct links to papers and reports found under the Digital Library tab. http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Startpage.asp?intItemID=2068&lang=1 Links to Trends in Europe & North America Yearbook, Human Settlements Database, Gender Statistics Database, Robotics Index, Gas Centre Database, and Demographic Database. http://http://www.unece.org/stats/data.htm Global and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, technology, culture and communication, back to 1970 http://www.uis.unesco.org/ev.php?URL_ID=2867&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201 Provides access to 'World Drug Report', a two volume set that covers market trends and provides in depth trend analysis and detailed statistics on all of the drug markets. Also, includes the International Crime Victim Surveys that provide information on crime and victimization through a standard questionnaire, the results of which are internationally comparable. http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/research.html Links to: Common Database (UNCDB), Demographic Yearbook system, Distat, the United Nations Disability Statistics Database, Good practices database, InfoNation, Joint Oil Data Initiative (JODI), Millennium Indicators Database, National Accounts Main Aggregates Database, Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants, Population and housing censuses: census dates, Population and Vital Statistics on Internet, Social Indicators, Statistics and indicators on women and men. http://unstats.un.org/unsd/databases.htm The mission of the Center is to advance the use of geographic data and spatial analytic techniques in research, teaching, and service at the University of Connecticut and in the region it serves. http://www.uconncgia.uconn.edu/ United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research. Cross-country and time level series of income inequalities on 149 countries, spanning 1950 to 1998 (currently being updated, 2004). http://www.wider.unu.edu/wiid/wwwwiid.htm USA Trade Online is the official source for U.S. Export and Import Statistics. USA Trade Online features current and cumulative export and inport data on more than 18,000 export commodities and 24,000 import commodities to the 10-digit level, as well as port data and annual revisions to the previous year's statistics. The UConn Libraries have been issued a login ID/Password for USA Trade Online as a Federal Depository library. Please contact Social Science and Geospatial Data Services through the 'Ask a Question' form linked on the toolbar above for more information. http://www.usatradeonline.gov The WHO Statistical Information System is a guide to health and health-related epidemiological and statistical information available from the World Health Organization, and elsewhere. The WHO Statistical Information System provides: * Medical Statistics * Vital Statistics * Medical Personnel Statistics * Hospital Statistics * Epidemiology Information on Communicable Diseases http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/1171 Uses tables, text, and charts to report information provided by federal and state officials on orders authorizing or approving interceptions of wire, oral, or electronic communications for the calendar year ending December 31. Presents data on types of offenses under investigation, nature and locations of intercept devices, costs and durations of intercepts, and intercept extensions granted. Does not include names, addresses, or phone numbers of subjects under surveillance. Publications dating back to 1997 available on line. http://www.uscourts.gov/library/wiretap.html Fatal and non-fatal injury-related data. Reports are generated on the web, by default, with an option given at the bottom of screen to download a CSV file. http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/ Provides statistics on the economies of over 200 developing countries, including time series data on agriculture, manufacturing, health indicators, education, natural resources, and foreign investment. From the World Bank World Development Indicators. http://lib.uconn.edu/online/databases/ERM//showResource.php?ElectronicResourceID=1099&liaisonEditSubjectPage= The World Investment Report has been published annually since 1991, covers latest trends in foreign direct investment around the World and analyses in-depth one selected topic related to foreign direct investment and development. http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=1485&lang=1 Includes country-level data on agricultural and environmental topics, health, housing, labor, economic, and marketing indicators. http://rdl.lib.uconn.edu/databases/1114 Worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change, builds on the European Values Survey http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/ Wharton Data Research Service provides access to the following databases: * Audit Analytics * COMPUSTAT North America * CRSP * EVENTUS * First Call * Global Insight * I/B/E/S http://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu/home