American Fact Finder An interactive feature of the  U.S. Census Bureau website, American Fact Finder lets you build custom data tables of Census data from the 2000 and 1990 short and long forms. You can export the data to Excel for further manipulation as well. For a tutorial on using American Fact Finder, click here.

Decennial Population & Housing Censuses Guide
From North Carolina State University, a librarian's guide to all of the aspects of each of the U.S. Decennial Censuses. An excellent place to see an overview of what the Census collects and provides, with links to content.

Census Publications* 

* refer to QUEST for the call number of the print edition

FedStats
"Access official statistics collected and published by more than 100 Federal agencies. Find statistics dealing with economic and population trends, education, health care costs, aviation safety, foreign trade, energy use, farm production, and more."

Statistical Abstract of the United States
"A collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included. The Abstract is also your Guide to Sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations."

Economics

Bureau of Economic Analysis
Along with the Census Bureau and STAT-USA, BEA is part of the Department's Economics and Statistics Administration. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) promotes a better understanding of the U.S. economy by providing the most timely, relevant, and accurate economic data in an objective and cost-effective manner.

U.S. Census Bureau Economic Indicators
The latest releases for roughly 14 indicators.

2002 Economic Census
Published every five years.

STAT-USA/USA Trade Online
Reports from over 50 Federal agencies including the National Trade Data Bank, the Economic Bulletin Board, Global Business Procurement Opportunities, and Bureau of Economics and Statistics Administration. Reference workstations only. ASK FOR PASSWORD at Reference desk or Circulation desk when Reference is closed.

White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room
Includes summaries of major indicators, charts, etc.

Economic Report of the President
Also includes the most recent official budgets of the U.S.

Consumer Price Index
Most commonly used measure of inflation

Bureau of Labor Statistics

EDGAR
SEC filings from publicly traded U.S. corporations, including detailed financial statistics.

IRS Tax Statistics
Everything you wanted to know about taxation statistics in the United States, often up to 2004, and nicely organized by topic.

Census Bureau Economic Programs
The Census Bureau's portal for statistical data on economics by geography, sector, and frequency

Social Data

White House Social Statistics Briefing Room
Includes demographics, crime, education, health statistics.

The Condition of Education
"An integrated collection of the indicators and analyses published in The Condition of Education 2000–2007."

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
"Data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. These data are displayed in over 1,000 tables."

FBI Uniform Crime Reports
Includes hate crime statistics.

National Center for Health Statistics
"The Nation’s principal health statistics agency, NCHS compiles statistical information to guide actions and policies to improve the health of the public. For basic vital data--births, deaths, marriages, etc.--try the National Vital Statistics System.

The Gallup Poll
"The world's premier source for public opinion data since 1935."

CDC Wonder
"CDC WONDER furthers the Center for Disease Control's mission of health promotion and disease prevention by speeding and simplifying access to public health information for state and local health departments, the Public Health Service, and the academic public health community."

International

InfoNation
Recent statistics for Member States of the United Nations; includes a broad range of data.

The CIA World FactBook
A quick source of country information--use their search function to quickly get to information on specific countries.

World Bank Development Statistics
"The most widely-used, official-source development data from the World Bank and other international agencies. For additional data and a where-to-find guide, please visit the Data Search page."

Statistical Agencies (International)
The U.S. Census Bureau's index of official statistical sources from every country available.

NationMaster
"NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD."

Population Index
 "...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."

Texas

Texas State Data Center
A useful beginning point for Texas demographic and socioeconomic information.

Texas Statistics & Demographics
From the UT Austin Libraries.

Labor Market Information
From the Texas Workforce Commission.

Texas State Comptroller
Government spending, with links to sales tax data.

For San Antonio labor statistics, try San Antonio Metropolitan Area At A Glance from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For more city statistics, try the San Antonio City web site and search for crime data, and health profiles.