Federal Statistical Agencies (select)
- Bureau of Economic AnalysisBEA produces economic accounts statistics that enable government and business decision-makers, researchers, and the American public to follow and understand the performance of the nation's economy.
- Bureau of Justice StatisticsBJS is the primary statistical agency of the Department of Justice. The mission of BJS is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.
- Bureau of Labor StatisticsThe BLS is the principal fact-finding agency in the broad field of labor economics and statistics and serves as part of the U.S. Federal Statistical System.
- Bureau of Transportation StatisticsThe BTS of the DOT is the preeminent source of statistics on commercial aviation, multimodal freight activity, and transportation economics, and provides context to decision makers and the public for understanding statistics on transportation.
- Census BureauThe Census Bureau is dedicated to providing current facts and figures about America’s people, places, and economy.
- National Center for Education StatisticsThe NCES is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
- National Center for Health StatisticsThe NCHS of the CDC is the nation's principal health statistics agency.
Work Stoppage (Strike) Statistics
- Work Stoppages (BLS)The Work Stoppages program provides monthly and annual data of major work stoppages involving 1,000 or more workers lasting one full shift or longer.
- Labor Action TrackerThe Tracker provides a comprehensive database of strike and labor protest activity across the United States to better inform and support labor movement activists, policymakers, and scholars.
Finding Statistics
- Social Explorer
Over 500,000 data indicators including the latest demographic and socio-economic data; historical demographic data from 1790 to the present; the American Community Survey 1-, 3-, and 5-year estimates; Market Profile Data; Economic Indicators; change over time data from 1970 to present; U.S. data on agriculture, the environment, Black Lives Matter protests, schools, crime, health, population estimates, business patterns, elections, and other topics; Canadian Census; U.K. Census; European Statistics Data; and World Development Indicators.
- Statista via NYPL
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Statista provides statistical data, consumer insights, dossiers, and industry reports for 170 industries, on over 80,000 topics, from 22,500 sources.
- FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data)FRED is an online database consisting of hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from scores of national, international, public, and private sources. Download, graph, and track 825,000 US and international time series from 114 sources.
- Income and Poverty (Census)Statistics related to income, poverty, wealth, and public assistance from the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Local Area Unemployment Statistics (BLS)The Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program produces monthly and annual employment, unemployment, and labor force data for Census regions and divisions, States, counties, metropolitan areas, and many cities, by place of residence.
- NYC Open DataOpen Data is free public data published by New York City agencies and other partners.
- NYC Planning Population FinderA tool that allows users to easily create study areas, or choose a pre-defined geography, and examine associated population data showing the latest demographic, social, economic, and housing characteristics, and how these characteristics have changed over time.
- Union Membership and Coverage DatabaseThe Union Membership and Coverage Database is a website providing private and public sector labor union membership, coverage, and density estimates compiled from the monthly household Current Population Survey (CPS) using BLS methods.