Kids Count data set

Statistical information on educational, social, economic and physical status of children and young adults from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Can be broken down by state or county.

http://datacenter.kidscount.org/

Statistics and data sets

We have a business class where the students need to locate data sets. Marcy has created a nice web page on her nelson business page:

http://www.nelson.usf.edu/reference/subject_guides/business/statistics_data.html


Please refer students to this page if they need suggestions on where to locate statistics and data.

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Actually, I also just posted the updated course guide (for Business Statistics II) on the Business Reference portion of our web site at the following:

http://web.nelson.usf.edu/reference/documents/BusStatistics.html

And there is a related post on my blog

http://businessresearchstuff.blogspot.com

Locating raw data sets

We have had a few questions about obtaining raw data sets for analysis. If you go to databases by title/subject and enter Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research or ICPSR, you can access a database that "supplies data files for use with statistical software, such as SAS or SPSS"