Environment

• U.S. Geological Survey  
• USGS (National Elevation Dataset)
• USGS (National Land Cover Characterization)
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service GIS Data Sets by State 

    International

    Data Clearinghouses   

• California Spatial Information Library (CALSIL) http://gis.ca.gov
• http://data.geocomm.com/
• Downloadable Spatial DataSets (ESRI)
• Geography Network 

    GIS centers, associations, and working groups

• IGIS at SFSU 
• UC-Berkeley GIS Center
• National Geographic MapMachine
• SF Bay Area Regional Database (BARD)  
• Bay Area Automated Mapping Association

Population by race, by age, by sex, deaths, births, foreign immigration, population projections, population pyramids.

• U.S. Census Bureau 
• American FactFinder, 2000 Census data
• Census 2000 response rates by census tract in California
• Population pyramids (international comparisons)
• Public-Use Microdata Samples or PUMS, US Census Bureau, Downloadable PUMS data, Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, University of Minnesota
• Vital Statistics, California Center for Health Statistics (deaths & births)
• Population projections: California Department of Finance, ABAG (Projections 2000 are available at SFSU's Government Documents Library), American Community Survey (San Francisco 1999 estimates)
• Immigration Studies Center, Washington, DC  
• Migration Policy Institute

Employment by sectors (Standard Industrial Classification or SIC & North American Industrial Classification System or NAICS groupings), number of establishments, payroll, number of employees, unemployment rates.

• SIC & NAICS Manual (searchable site) 
• Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Labor (national employment data)
• California Employment Development Department (CA employment data)  
• CA Dept. of Industrial Relations, Division of Labor Statistics  
• Employment by Industry for San Francisco PMSA (SF, Marin, San Mateo)
• County Business Patterns, U.S. Census Bureau
• Geospatial and Statistical Data Center (interactive county business patterns data)
• Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Dept. of Commerce
• Current Population Survey , U.S. Census Bureau
• City and County Data Book, U.S. Census Bureau
• Bay Area Labor-Economic Digital Directory at UC-Berkeley (excellent links)
• Poverty in America

Housing prices, building permits issued (starts), vacancy rates, structural and neighborhood characteristics of houses at the metropolitan level

• California Association of Realtors
• Case Shiller Index
• Zillow
• California Construction Industry Research Board
• U.S. Census, Manufacturing/Construction Statistics Department, Building Permits Office

    Housing and Community Development

• Housing Links (from SFSU URBS 580 class)
• Land & Housing Diagnosis Toolkit (by Pamuk, Module 6)
• American Housing Survey (tabulations)
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (Go to Resources/Library/Research)
• LISC
• National Community Reinvestment Coalition
• Housing Assistance Council
• Enterprise Foundation
• Urban Institute
• Brookings Institution
• Urban Land Institute
• The state of the Nation’s Cities, CUPR, Rutgers

    Welfare & Child Care

• U.S. Social Security Administration
• U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
• California Department of Social Services
• San Francisco's Children and the Need for Head Start Centers (SFSU Mapping The Children Research Group)

    Education

• California Department of Education

    Crime

• National Criminal Justice Research Service of the National Institute of Justice
• California Dept. of Justice, Criminal Justice Statistics Center

    Transportation

• U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (see also the National Transportation Library in this website)
• California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS)
• Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)

    Health

• California Department of Health Services

International data

• World Urbanization Prospects (UN)
• The World Bank
• United Nations Databases  
• UN-HABITAT
• World Development Reports (The World Bank)
• Urban Indicators for Managing Cities -- Cities Data Book (Asian Development Bank)

Foreign Trade

Imports and exports by industry groupings

• Productivity and Trade, U.S. Census Bureau

Opinion Surveys

• General Social Survey, National Opinion Research Council

Election Data

• National Election Studies

Data from federal agencies

• FedStats The Gateway to Statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal Agencies

Data from regional organizations

• Washington Metropolitan Region Council of Governments
• Association of Bay Area Governments
• Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG)
• Bay Area Census (ABAG/MTC)

California-specific sources of data and research reports

• RAND
• ABAG
• Center for California Studies (CSUS)
• Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO)
• Public Policy Institute of California
• Senate Office of Research (SOR)
• California Statistical Abstract
• Other policy organizations (from SFSU URBS 480 class)

Library resources

• UC-Berkeley Environmental Design Library
• SFSU databases

Social Statistics for a Diverse Society textbook web-based student study site

Created by Ayse Pamuk (pamuk@sfsu.edu) for USP 493 (Data Analysis), Last updated August 2009.