The Ames Library - Historical Statistics of the United States

Data & Statistics Resources

Dataset: Historical Statistics of the United States

Access Data: The Ames Library - 2nd Floor Scholarly Workstations - The link is available on the computer desktops.

Description: Contains the complete historical statistics of the United States, published in 1975, including over 12,500 time series and all descriptive text, an electronic book for easy viewing and searching, and Lotus 1-2-3- files and tab delimited text for all tables, ready to download for manipulation and statistical analysis. Complete text and all tables of Historical Statistics are accessible.

Historical Statistics cover such topics as:

population
migration
prices
national income
social statistics
health and medical care
environmental questions
business activity
communications
international trade
government regulation

Time period: Colonial Times to 1970

For more details, see below.

Principal Investigator

Susan B. Carter

Doumentation

Help component is included in the software.

Data Format and File Storage

CD-ROM

Source of Data

Bureau of the Census