Research Guides: Journalism: Stats, Data &amp; Public Records

General Statistic Resources

FiveThirtyEight
"We use data and evidence to advance public knowledge — adding certainty where we can and uncertainty where we must." An ABC News Internet Venture
Gale Opposing Viewpoints
Access articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. A major strength of this full text source is the pairing of essays representing contrasting views on current social issues.
Google Public Data Explorer
Easily access a wide variety of open data sets from the World Bank, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OECD, IMF and more. Use the visualization tool to experiment with the data sets you find.
Kaggle
Community Published Datasets
Statista
Over 1 million statistics from over 600 areas of study, including: marketing data, consumer data, revenue figures, and trends.
U.S. Census Data
The U.S. Census Bureau is the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.
Writing with Statistics
Information from the Purdue Owl about how to use statistics in your writing.

Pew Research Data
Access datasets from previous Pew Research Center studies. Pick from a variety of social sciences such as sociology, political science and economics.
U.S. Census Bureau
Explore data from the United State's census. Find demographic data, surveys such as the American Community and American Housing surveys, and government statistics here.
FiveThirtyEight
Find various data sets that cover politics, science, economics, sports and more. The data is downloadable and had brief explanations on how the data was sourced.
United States Election Project
Access voter turnout statistics dating from 2000 to the present year.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Run by Cornell University, the Roper Center archive consists of over 24,000 datasets from public opinion surveys dating back to the 1930s.
Note: Many of the datasets on this website are free - others do require a paid membership.
FBI Crime Data Explorer
Access criminal justice datasets from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

CDC National Center for Health Statistics
Find current and historical datasets that cover a variety of health and human services topics.
NASA Data
Use tens of thousands of available datasets from NASA and related government organizations that focus on earth sciences, meteorology and astronomy.
U.S. Geological Survey
Access a large archive of GIS datasets that map the location of water, energy, minerals, natural resources and threatened ecosystems.
World Health Organization Data Repository
The GHO data repository contains an extensive set of data that is the main source for worldwide health statistics.

Data Axle : Reference Solutions This link opens in a new window
Find detailed information about businesses and organizations, consumers, and jobs throughout the United States

KCResearch
KCResearch seeks to provide access to all kinds of data and research studies about Kansas City or produced by Kansas City researchers.
Mid-America Regional Council (MARC)
MARC is a nonprofit association of city and county governments and the metropolitan planning organization for the bistate Kansas City region.