Pritzker Legal Research Center: Factual Research: Statistics

Overview

ProqQuest Statistical Insight is a great place to start your search for statistical information.

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Provides fast and easy access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. PQSI brings together a massive collection of statistical data in a single easy-to-use search interface, with additional features such as descriptive abstracts, detailed indexing, full-text PDFs of source documents, tables, and downloadable spreadsheets containing table data.

Includes Statistical Abstract of the United States: statistical tables from a variety of sources, including governmental, commercial, and non-profit. Previously published by the U.S. Census Bureau (discontinued in 2012).

If you are looking for a specific statistical source that is not included on this page, see

U.S. Court Statistics
Federal court management and judicial caseload statistics
Federal Judicial Center Integrated Database (IDB)
Contains data on civil case and criminal defendant filings and terminations in the district courts, along with bankruptcy court and appellate court case information
Bureau of Justice Statistics
The United States' primary source for criminal justice statistics. Contains data on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.
FBI Uniform Crime Reports
Includes four annual publications, Crime in the United States, National Incident-Based Reporting System, Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted, and Hate Crime Statistics are produced from data received from over 18,000 city, university/college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies voluntarily participating in the program.
Also includes information on the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) Program and the Hate Crime Statistics Program, as well as the traditional Summary Reporting System (SRS) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).
Court Statistics Project
A joint project of the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) and the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA), this database contains caseload data from the courts of the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

American Fact Finder
Contains statistics from the Economic Census conducted every five years by the U.S. Census Bureau. Find information on retail, service and manufacturing. Tip: Click on Business and Government link on the left side of the home page.
FRED
FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) is a database of a database of over 100,000 U.S. economic data time series from 59 national, international, public, & private sources. FRED is maintained by Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Bureau of Economic Analysis - GDP by Industry
Annual Survery of Manufactures
The Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) from the Census Bureau is for all manufacturing establishments with one or more paid employee. Among the statistics included in this survey: employment, payroll, value added by manufacture, cost of materials consumed, value of shipments, detailed capital expenditures, supplemental labor costs, fuels and electric energy used, and inventories by stage of fabrication.