Using this Guide
This guide gathers together sources for statistics and data in the field of health sciences. Use the tabs to navigate the pages of this guide:
- Home: key starting points
- Washington State: general resources, vital statistics, health & disease, health services data, environmental & occupational health
- United States: General sources, vital statistics, health & disease, health services research data
- World: International sources, Regional and Country sources
- For More Information: pointers to tutorials and additional helpful guides to finding health statistics.
See also: Data Resources in the Health Sciences: Inventory of resources to support research data needs in the health sciences field.
Starting Points
- National Center for Health StatisticsWide variety of health-related statistics, including FastStats for quick summary data.
- Data.govDescriptions of Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.
- Data.gov: HealthDatasets, tools & applications using data about health and health care gathered from US Federal government agencies.
- Finding and Using Health Statistics tutorialTraining and exercises on sources of health statistics and how to interpret them. From the National Library of Medicine.
- ProQuest Statistical Insight This link opens in a new window
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Index to governmental and private statistical data. - Sage Data This link opens in a new window
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Social-science data and statistics from a variety of sources.
- American Factfinder - U.S. Census dataInterface for data from Census 2010 and 2000 and the 2010 American Community Survey. Tables and maps for U.S states, counties, cities, towns, by race, ethnic, ancestry, or tribal groups.
- Partners in Information Access for the Public Health WorkforceHealth data tools and statistics.
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Maps and reports based on U.S. Census and other data sources, 1790 to present.
- PolicyMap
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Online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the United States.