Here is a list of useful links highlighted during recent presentations. The full URLs are listed to match what was displayed.
- Census
- Census Bureau Web site. Especially helpful is the American FactFinder section
www.census.gov/ - 2010 Census form (pdf)
http://2010.census.gov/2010census/pdf/2010_Questionnaire_Info.pdf - American Community Survey forms (including questions from previous years)
http://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/about/forms-and-instructions.html - Link to Census data from 1790 and on
www.census.gov/prod/www/abs/decennial/ - iPUMS, from the University of Minnesota, allows to you extract detailed information from Census stats since 1850
usa.ipums.org/usa/ - Economy and Jobs
- Bureau of Labor Statistics data page
www.bls.gov/data/ - Ohio Unemployment compensation reports
lmi.state.oh.us/uc/UCReports.htm - Ohio/U.S. unemployment stats
ohiolmi.com/laus/laus.html - Or direct link to historical
ohiolmi.com/asp/laus/vbLaus.htm - Elections and Campaign Finance
- Federal Elections Commission
www.fec.gov - Open Secrets, a great source to quickly find data on candidates and donors
www.opensecrets.org/ - Site run by the Huffington Post that allows you to search donors by neighborhood
www.fundrace.org - Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections featuring historical stats
www.uselectionatlas.org/ - Tax stats
- IRS Tax stats
www.irs.gov/taxstats/ - IRS sales tax estimates by state (beginning on page 14)
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040sca.pdf - IRS Migration Data
http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/article/0,,id=212683,00.html - Ohio Department of Taxation research page
tax.ohio.gov/channels/other/research.stm
Collection of valuable links
- Transportation stats
- U.S. Department of Transportation
www.bts.gov/ - NEO Cando
- An example of a tremendous regional resource
neocando.case.edu/cando/index.jsp - Weather
- National Weather Service
www.weather.gov - Local climate data for recent months
www.weather.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=cle
(This is for Cleveland. For other places, go to http://www.weather.gov, type in your ZIP code and click for the forecast. Once there, in the upper left, there will be a link identifying the local forecast office. Click that link. Then click the "climate and past weather" link next to the forecast office name. This is the link for Grand Rapids, Mich., for example. - Storm Event Database, National Climatic Data Center
www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wwEvent~Storms - For more links, there is the Storm Data Publications page
www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/sd/ - Or the Storm Prediction Center
www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/online/
- Sports
- Sports Reference LLC
http://www.sports-reference.com