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Statistics
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Major Sources
Statistics Search Tools
Tufts Resources
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Major Sources

  • American FactFinder
    U.S. Bureau of the Census
    Contains population, housing, economic and geographic data from Census 2000, the 1990 Census, the 1997 Economic Census, the Census 2000 Supplementary Survey, and the American Community Survey.
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
    The principal agency in the United States government for protecting the health and safety of all Americans and for providing essential human services, especially for those people who are least able to help themselves.
  • Facts for You: Healthy People
    U.S. Office of Citizen Services and Communications
    Contains shortcuts to statistical information on the following topics: aging, cancer mortality, birth rate and child mortality, nursing homes and occupational health.
  • FASTATS A-Z
    National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
    Provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically.  Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages.
  • Health, United States
    National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
    An annual report on trends in health statistics. Presents national trends in health statistics on such topics as birth and death rates, infant mortality, life expectancy, morbidity and health status, risk factors, use of ambulatory care and inpatient care, health personnel and facilities, financing of health care, health insurance and managed care, and other health topics.
  • Healthy People 2010
    National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
    Unites States' comprehensive, nationwide health promotion and disease prevention agenda. Links to Focus Areas and statical data are provided.
  • MEASURE DHS (Demographic and Health Surveys)
    Funded by U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Global Health (BGH)
    Produces a wide variety of publications that provide country specific and comparative data on population, health, and nutrition in developing countries.
  • Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: MMWR
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Contains data on specific diseases as reported by state and territorial health departments and reports on infectious and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, natural or human-generated disasters, occupational diseases and injuries, and intentional and unintentional injuries.
  • National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    The principal health statistics agency for the Unted States. NCHS compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies.
  • National Hospital Discharge and Ambulatory Surgery Data
    Conducted annually since 1965, the survey provides information on characteristics of inpatients discharged from non-Federal short-stay
    hospitals in the US. For print holdings of annual summaries published in the National Center for Health Statistics' Vital & Health Statistics
    Series, search the Tufts Catalog.
  • National Longitudinal Surveys
    U.S. Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics
    Set of surveys designed to gather information at multiple points in time on the labor market activities and other significant life events of several groups of men and women.
  • National Vital and Health Statistics series
    National Center for Health Statisitcs (NCHS)
    Each series presents data analyses for a data collection system or a family of related systems. Some series include annual issues, other reports are focused on special analysis, others offer summaries of annual surveys.
  • Statistical Abstract of the United States
    U.S. Bureau of the Census
    Statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States.
  • U.S. Bureau of the Census
  • World Health Organization (WHO)
  • World Development Indicators [Requires Tufts UTLN]
    World Bank
    Statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators

Statistics Search Tools

  • FEDSTATS
    Search engine for official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government.
  • LexisNexis [Requires Tufts UTLN]
    Select the "Statistical" link under "Related Links" on the right side of the screen.

Tufts Resources

Journals

Statistics Databases

Books

HHSL call number range WA 950
  • Finding statistics online : how to locate the elusive numbers you need
    5th floor HA 33.5 B511f 1998
  • Health and numbers : basic biostatistical methods
    Reserve WA 950 L433h 1995
  • Health, United States 2003
    Reference W 2 a N1479hc 2003
  • How to analyze survey data
    Reserve HN 29 S971 1995
  • How to report statistics in medicine : annotated guidelines for authors, editors, and reviewers
    Reference WA 950 L269h 1997
  • Introductory biostatistics for the health sciences : modern applications including bootstrap
    5th floor WA 950 C521 2003
  • Medical statistics : a commonsense approach
    Reserve WA 950 C189m 1999
  • Nonparametric statistics for health care research : statistics for small samples and unusual distributions
    5th floor WA 950 P499n 1997
  • Portrait of health in the U.S.: major statistical trends & guide to resources
    Reference WA 900 AA1 P853
  • Primer of biostatistics
    5th floor WA 950 G545p 1997
  • Qualitative methods in public health : a field guide for applied research
    5th floor WA 20.5 U39q 2005
  • Randomization in clinical trials : theory and practice
    5th floor WB 16 R813r 2002
  • Studying a study and testing a test : how to read the medical evidence
    Info WA 950 R554s 2005
  • Vital and health statistics series
    Reference W 2 A N148V 1991