Research Guide: Statistics

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Statistics by Topic - Books

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Veterans in the United States: Statistics and Resources 2015

Reference Collection (print copy in-library use only) & eBook Collection

Presents the most pertinent and compelling statistics, including educational attainment, employment status, period of military service, and much more

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Black Stats: African Americans by the numbers in the twenty-first century

Main Collection 305.896 M877b 2014 & eBook Collection

An essential handbook of eye-opening--and frequently myth-busting--facts and figures about the real lives of Black Americans today 

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Voter Turnout in the United States 1788-2009

Reference Collection 324.973 V972 2011

Find out how voter turnout has turned the tide of countless elections and thereby American history, from the White House to your local district

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Queer Data: using gender, sex and sexuality data for action

Main Collection 306.7607 G986q 2022

This important book is the first to look at queer data - defined as data relating to gender, sex, sexual orientation and trans identity/history. 

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Deadly Justice: a statistical portrait of the death penalty

Main Collection 364.66097 B348d 2018 & eBook Collection

Provides the most comprehensive statistical account yet of the workings of the capital punishment system.

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Families in America

Reference Collection 306.85 F1983 2015

Families in America presents a wide selection of information from the American Community Survey that helps us describe American living arrangements, relationships, marriages, births, children, and incomes.

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Latino Stats: American Hispanics by the numbers

Main Collection 973.0468 M239l 2015 & eBook Collection

Highlighting, in numbers, the reality of the broad spectrum of Latino life in the United States. 

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Justice Statistics: an extended look at crime in the United States

Reference Collection 364.973 J963 2015

Comprehensive collection of justice statistics in the United States.