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.
- U.S. Census dataInterface for data from U.S. Census, American Community Survey, Economic Census, and more. 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.