Research Guide: Statistics

This guide is a starting place to help you locate statistics on a variety of topics from many different sources

U.S. Stats in Books

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The Who, What, and Where of America: understanding the American Community Survey

Reference Collection 317.3 W628 2010

The Who, What, and Where of America provides invaluable research aids for helping researchers understand what the census long form data tell us about who we are, what we do, and where we live. 

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Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2016

Reference Collection--in-library use only; Some pre-2013 editions are available online (link above).

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Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present

5 volumes
Reference Collection--in-library use only; 1975 edition available online (link above to 1975 ed.)

National Statistics

Locating U.S. statistics online

Linked below are a list of websites where you can locate statistics on various topics.

Overwhelmed by the Census? Try the Census Survey Explorer:

Other State Statistics

Washington State Statistics

Washington State Statistics