In many of the units, I provide some “canned” data that you can use to practice the technique under discussion. But I encourage you to “go beyond the information given.” You might have access to data of your own (first make sure you are authorized to share it). And the Web contains a wealth of data, just waiting for someone to access it and use it. If you see the opportunity to pursue a question that is more interesting to you that the sample problems I provide, go for it!
Here
are some data sites that you might find interesting:
http://www.fedstats.gov/ FesStats—Master
link to all Federal Government data
http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en American Fact Finder
http://socds.huduser.org/ HUD’s “State of
the Cities” datasystem
http://www.bls.census.gov/cps/cpsmain.htm Current Population Survey
http://www.census.gov/epcd/cbp/view/cbpview.html County Business Patterns
http://www.census.gov/econ/census02/ Economic Census
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census Historical Census of the
http://www.lmic.state.mn.us/chouse/mndata.html
http://ucdata.berkeley.edu/new_web/icpsropen.html
© 1996 A.J.Filipovitch
Revised 11 March 2005