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Indexes & Abstracts


CURRENT INDEX TO STATISTICS (CIS)
CURRENT INDEX TO STATISTICS (CIS). The Current Index to Statistics is a bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. The CIS Extended Database (CIS- ED) includes coverage, in most cases from 1974 (or first issue if later) to the present from selected journals, and selected books in statistics published since 1974. 
URL: http://query.statindex.org/ 
EDS - ELECTRONIC DATA SERVICE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
EDS is CU libraries and ACIS service that supports CU community in the use of statistical data sources. It provides statistical sources, software as well as offers Reference assistance in using statistical data,including raw data sets, GIS, etc. Offers DataGate,the local archive comprised of ICPSR, Roper, SSEDL, etc. EDS is physically located at the CU Lehman Social Sciences Library on the Morningside Campus. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/acis/eds/ 
HSUS ONLINE - HISTORICAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES
A database format of 'Expanded and revised edition of: Historical statistics of the United States, colonial times to 1970. Bicentennial ed. Washington : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1975. "Many [data] series in these volumes are continued on a regular basis with periodic updates and revisions by the agency, group, or individual responsible for the original data."--Guide to the Millennial ed. This database is an online version of the new five-volume printed edition: Historical statistics of the United States : earliest times to the present' Includes socio-economic characteristics, demographic data, vital statistics, etc. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio5634151 
INFOSHARE ONLINE
A database of statistics about New York City. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/databases/3105451.html 
LEXIS NEXIS STATISTICAL
'Provides statistical data from U.S. government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and international organizations from 1983.' 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?APK8288 
MEDLINE (OVID)
Three separate components of Medline available through OVID interface: Medline 1966 - present (offers author/journal/keyword/subject, or MESH, searching), Oldmedline 1950 - 1965 (offers same but subject searching), and In-Process around 2 recent months (offers same but subject searching).  
URL: http://library.cpmc.columbia.edu/hsl/eres/countact.cfm?resourceid=1301 
POPLINE
citations and abstracts for publications related to population, family planning, and related health issues. Coverage from 1970- present. Includes international demographic research. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indexes/popline.html 
POPULATION INDEX
'Population Index is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. This website provides a searchable and browsable database containing 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000.'  
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?APH1576  
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Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Guides


ADVANCE DATA FROM VITAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS
1976- NCHS publ. 
Serial A. 
BLACK AMERICANS: A STATISTICAL SOURCEBOOK
REF E185.86 B52. 
HISPANIC AMERICANS: A STATISTICAL SOURCEBOOK
REF E184 S75 H27. 
HISTORICAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES, COLONIAL TIMES TO 1970
U.S. Bureau of Census. 
Ref HA202 Un32. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio5018932  
MONTHLY VITAL STATISTICS REPORT
1952- NCHS/CDC publ. 
Serial M. 
NEW JERSEY HEALTH STATISTICS
1971, 1982- Serial REF 
RA 407.4 N5 N2, RA407.4 .N5 N42. 
SUMMARY OF VITAL STATISTICS
1940- New York City. All in Ref. 
Ref HA730 N42 N48. 
VITAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS
Ser.24 
Serial V. 
VITAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS SERIES: AN ANNOTATED CHECKLIST AND INDEX TO PUBLICATIONS OF THE "RAINBOW SERIES".
Ref Z7165 U5 V57. 
VITAL STATISTICS BY HEALTH AREAS AND HEALTH CENTER DISTRICTS
New York City. 1942- All in Ref. 
Ref HA730 N42 V83. 
VITAL STATISTICS FOR PENNSYLVANIA
1980 TO 1984. 
REF RA 407.4 .P38 V83 1986. 
VITAL STATISTICS RATES IN THE UNITED STATES
1900-1940. U.S. Public Health Service publ. 
Ref HA205 V83. 
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Directories and Associations


AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
1429 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314-3402, USA; Voice: 703- 684-1221; Toll-free: 888-231-3473 
URL: http://www.amstat.org/ 
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Internet Guides and Resources


ALAN GUTTMACHER INSTITUTE (AGI)
Specializes in reproductive health research. Offers statistics on teenage pregnancy, abortions, std, etc. AGI is an independent, not-for-profit corporation, a special affiliate of PPFA (Planned Parenthood Federation of America. 
URL: http://www.agi-usa.org/ 
ATLAS OF UNITED STATES MORTALITY
Shows all leading causes of death by race and sex for small U.S. geographic areas referred to as Health Service Areas (HSA's), etc. 
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/products/pubs/pubd/other/atlas/atlas.htm 
CAREC - CARIBBEAN EPIDEMIOLOGY CENTRE
It "is administered on behalf of 21 Member Countries by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the World Health Organization's Regional Office for the Americas. CAREC enjoys an international reputation for its work in support of Public Health in the Caribbean." Offers statistics on HIV/AIDS by country; communicable disease report archives; population data; social and economic indicators and vital statistics, etc.  
URL: http://www.carec.org/ 
CAUSES OF DEATH
Commercial Disaster Center provides statistics on causes of death by age and disease, including accidents. 
URL: http://www.disastercenter.com/cdc/ 
CDC WONDER
Provides a single point of access to a variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data. Query statistical data sets, or retrieve reports and guidelines. 
URL: http://wonder.cdc.gov/ 
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
(DHHS). CDC's concern is prevention and control of communicable diseases, environmental health, etc. Offers online information in categories: Travelers' Health, Health Topics A-Z, Publicatioins, Software & Products, Data and Statistics, etc. Offers links to the WEB sites of CDC's 11 centers, institute and offices. 
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/ 
CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND
Offers Children in the States data, other statistical information, etc. 
URL: http://www.childrensdefense.org/ 
CHILDSTATS
Offers child and family statistics. Presents America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being (the annual Federal monitoring report on the status of the Nation's children), which includes statistics on population and family characteristics, etc. 
URL: http://childstats.gov/ 
COUNTRY HEALTH PROFILES
(Pan American Health Organization - PAHO). Offers population, health and epidemiology statistics as Health in the Americas publication as well as Individual country profiles. Covers all countries of the Americas. PAHO's country profile database functions as the official regional information source on mortality in the Americas. 
URL: http://www.paho.org/english/country.htm 
COUNTY AND CITY DATA BOOK.
Offers electronic versions of the 1988 and 1994 County and City Data Books. This service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets. Data includes demographics, vital and socioeconomic statistics for U.S. in general, states, counties, and cities. 
URL: http://fisher.lib.Virginia.EDU/ccdb/ 
DATA.GOV
"... Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets. The data catalogs will continue to grow as datasets are added. Federal, Executive Branch data are included in the first version of Data.gov." "Data.gov includes searchable catalogs that provide access to "raw" datasets and various tools. In the "raw" data catalog, you may access data in XML, Text/CSV, KML/KMZ, Feeds, XLS, or ESRI Shapefile formats. The catalog of tools links you to sites that include data mining and extraction tools and widgets." 
URL: http://www.data.gov/ 
FEDSTATS (FEDERAL STATISTICS)
Offers statistics produced for public use by more than 70 U.S. Federal Government agencies. Allows to search for statistics by agency, by program (subject), by subject alphabetically (A to Z), by keyword (search the entire site), by region (county, state, country approach), provides links to other sites, etc. Site Map provided helps easy choice of search approach. Under Fast Facts provides links to and allows to view the full text of Statistical Abstract of the United States, State and Metropolitan Area Data Book, Socioeconomic Status, etc. Accidents and injuries statistics can be found in Programs under Safety Statistics category. 
URL: http://www.fedstats.gov/ 
HISTORICAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES
A 'compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources.' 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio5634151 
HISTORICAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES, COLONIAL TIMES TO 1970
U.S. Bureau of Census. 
Ref HA202 Un32. 
URL: http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio5018932  
INFONATION
(U.N.) InfoNation is an easy-to- use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations. Data for each country includes demography, socioeconomic statistics, etc. 
URL: http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm 
MMWR. MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.) The weekly MMWR is available in .pdf format readable with Adobe Acrobat Reader and in HTML. Look under Publications, or Disease Trends categories, or search by keyword, such as accidents, etc. 
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/ 
NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS (NCHS)
Under Data Warehouse offers miscellaneous health related statistics in format of tables, charts, etc. Comprehensive vital statistics can be found under Publications and Information Products category. 
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/default.htm 
NEW YORK CITY DEPT OF CITY PLANNING
Offers demographic, vital and socieconomic statistics for NYC including stats by community district, etc. 
URL: http://home2.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/census/popdiv.shtml 
NEW YORK STATE DATA CENTER
Offers Census statistics for NYS. 
URL: http://www.nylovesbiz.com/nysdc/default.asp 
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU
(INCLUDES LINKS TO GOVERNMENT STATISTICAL AGENCIES BY COUNTRY WORLDWIDE AND U.S. STATE STATISTICAL SITES BY STATE). Offers population statistics, including vital statistics under related sites. 
URL: http://www.census.gov/ 
U.S. CENSUS BUREAU: U.S. STATE DATA CENTERS
Offers U.S. statistics by state. 
URL: http://www.census.gov/sdc/www/ 
UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
Offers maternal and children's health, nutrition, mortality, environmental statistics under Statistics category and under Publications: see such publications as The State of World's Children, The Progress of Nations, UNICEF Annual Reports, etc. 
URL: http://www.unicef.org/ 
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP)
Offers information on trends in international welfare and public health. The site can be searched by keyword. 
URL: http://www.undp.org/ 
WOMEN OF COLOR HEALTH DATA BOOK
(National Women's Health Information Center - NWHIC). Offers statistics on demographics of women of color (black, Asian, American Indian, Hispanic). Special attention is given to age groups: adolescent and elderly. 
URL: http://www.4woman.gov/HealthPro/statistics/ 
WORLD BANK
Offers World Development Indicators (data includes demographics), World Development Reports, Country Data, Data by Topics, etc. under Data category. 
URL: http://www.worldbank.org/ 
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WEEKLY EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RECORD
(WER) Serves as an instrument for the rapid and accurate dissemination of epidemiological information on cases and outbreaks of diseases, including newly emerging or re-emerging infections. 
URL: http://www.who.int/wer/ 
WORLD STATISTICS
(Information Please Almanac). World Stats. category offers statistics including abortions for selected countries of the world. 
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ 
YOUTH INDICATORS
(NCES). Offers statistics on youth pregnancies, abortions, etc. 
URL: http://nces.ed.gov/help/sitemap.asp 
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Meta-directories of Websites


PARTNERS IN INFORMATION ACCESS FOR THE PUBLIC HEALTH WORKFORCE
"Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce is a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health sciences libraries which provides timely, convenient access to selected public health resources on the Internet." Offers links to useful Public Health and statistical resources in multiple categories. The PHPartners offers RSS feed that would 'keep you informed about news in public health, upcoming meetings, and new public health online resources. The PHPartners feed address is http://phpartners.org/rss_phpartners.xml. More information on how to subscribe to PHPartners RSS feeds is available at http://phpartners.org/rss_information.html.'  
URL: http://phpartners.org/ 


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