HSJ412 Legal & Ethical Issues in Human Services & the Criminal Justice System: Statistics

The 2010 Census represented the most massive participation movement ever witnessed in our country. Approximately 74 percent of the households returned their census forms by mail; the remaining households were counted by census workers walking neighborhoods throughout the United States. National and state population totals from the 2010 Census were released on December 21, 2010. Redistricting data, which include additional state, county and local counts, will be released starting in February 2011.

The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides data every year -- giving communities the current information they need to plan investments and services. Information from the survey generates data that help determine how more than $400 billion in federal and state funds are distributed each year.

The mission of the BJS is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to federal, state, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded.

With more than 70 professional statisticians and data analysts on hand, the Center for Workforce Information & Analysis (CWIA) is Pennsylvania’s leading source of innovative workforce information. This site is good if you need: wages; state and county economic and labor force summaries; industry data; occupation information; and career information.

ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

Census microdata for social and economic research.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

Responsible for providing a wide range of analytical and statistical support to NHTSA and the highway safety community at large.

The State Data Center (SDC) Program is one of the Census Bureau's longest and most successful partnerships. The partnership between the 50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the island areas and the Census Bureau was created in 1978 to make data available locally to the public through a network of state agencies, universities, libraries, and regional and local governments.