http://stats.bls.gov/
This unit of the United States Department of Labor is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics including Employment and Unemployment Data. Important programs and surveys include:
National Compensation Survey: The National Compensation Survey (NCS) provides detailed occupational earnings for metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, broad geographic regions, and on a national basis.
Consumer Price Indexes: Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) program produces monthly data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services.
Producer Price Index: The Producer Price Index (PPI) program measures the average change over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers for their output.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/
This statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Energy collects and disseminates data on energy reserves, production, consumption, distribution, prices, technology, and related international, economic and financial matters. Coverage of EIA’s programs includes data on coal, petroleum, natural gas, electric and nuclear energy.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/Default.htm
The Faststats site provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages.
Statistical Abstract of the United States (Paper version--REF 317.3 S797)
2008 edition available online: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/index.html
(on 1/28/08 unable to access 2007 edition online via Census.gov)
The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations. HPL has the Statistical Abstract in paper dating back to 1907 in Government Documents.
LexisNexis Statistical Universe enables easy access to statistics produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities.
Fedstats
http://www.fedstats.gov/
FedStats is the gateway to the United States statistical system, providing access to statistical information from more than 100 federal agencies.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
This site, compiled by the Documents Center of University of Michigan highlights numerous government statistical resources available through the web.
- What was the average CPI (consumer price index) for 1958 for the United States? (bonus if you can find it for Austria in 1958 for 1982-1984=100 using Statistical Universe)
- Using the inflation calculator on the BLS website, see how much buying power $10 the year you were born or graduated from high school has today.
- From the May 2006 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, pick 3 occupations and list their mean annual salary.
- What is the 2006 annual PPI (producer price index) for vitamins? For paper?
- What was the price of regular gasoline the week of 12/24/07? The week of 9/10/01?
- What was the price of oil per barrel of Maya 22° (Mexico) and Nigeria Bonny Light 27° on 1/11/08?
- Using the CDC’s Fastfacts A to Z, pick a health topic and report its statistics. Please provide the year of the data and the link to the page in your answer.
- Can you find me a table showing the mean time spent with a physician? I am interested in the average time an ophthalmologist spends with a patient.
- Can you help me find some data that is less than five years old on pipeline incidents in Texas?
- Can you help me find a spot coal price for 1/25/08 for Illinois Basin coal?
- How many births were there in Texas last year? If you can’t find data for 2007, how old is the data that you can find?
- How many people in the US speak Tagalog at home?
- How many cornea grafts occurred in 2003?
- How many military reserve personnel were there in 2004?
- How many persons were on the federal food stamp program in Texas in 2005?
- How many US Post Offices were there in 2005?
- Compare the number of households with computers and internet access in Texas.
- What were the average premiums for renters and homeowners insurance for the US? For Texas?
- What percentage of the American adult population is considered to be obese? What about Denmark?
- How many books were sold in 2005?
- How many NCAA rowing teams were there in 2004-05?
14 comments:
Part I No. 1 After I discovered that I need not use the HPL website I clicked on the US Dept. of Labor BLS website and clicked on Table Containing History of CPI US all items indexes and annual percent changes from 1913 to present. There I found what I was looking for in 1958. (Jan to Aug). As for the bonus part where do I find Statistical Universe?
Part I no. 2 using BLS again, I clicked on Inflation Calculator section and did as suggest.
10.00 for 1941 (year of my birth), and 1959 when I graduated from high school. 1941 10.00 143.59
1959 10.00 72.54.
John K. Towle
Part I No. 4 using the US Dept. of Labor BLS under Inflation and Consumer Spending and under Producer Price Indexs I found PPI Commodity Data for both Vitamins and Paper (2006 paper annual 167.4 and for vitamins annual 103.3)
No. 7 using CDC's Fastfacts A to Z told to pick a health topic. So I picked Arthritis but when that came up there were the following links morbidity, health care (Home health care), and related links.
Some of these are 2005, and 1999.
No. 10 I clicked on the Energy information administration chose coal, then on the left side checked spot prices which then gave me the page coal news and markets week ended 25 jan 08 to 29 feb 08. And there are 5 coal regions listed. The one that asked for was Illinois Basin 11,800 BTU 5.0SO2 $34.00.
John K. Towle
Part 2
For this part you really have to go to each category and click on just what is what in that area.
For how many persons were on the federal food stamp program in Texas in 2005 I found through Social Insurance & Human Services Food Program and #552 Federal Food Stamp Program by State 2000-2006.
For what were the average premiums for renters and homeowners insurance in the US and for Texas (no date) I found in Banking Finance & Insurance: Insurance 1197 Renters & Homeowners Insurance-Average Premiums of State 2004.
John K. Towle
Part 2
In comparing the number of households with computers and internet access in Texas I went to
Information & Communications: Internet information industries and internet usage and found 1127-1130 dealing with internet and computers.
And finally for how many military reserve personnel were thre in 2004 I found under National Security & Veterans Affairs -Military Reserve Personnel 1990-2006 and I think Ready Reserve Personnel Profie-Race and Sex 19990-2006.
John K. Towle
John: Good work. For the bonus Statistical Universe is on HPL's Research Page. Go to the All the Databases webpage and it will be under "s" (not "l"). If you need more help, let me know. Marianne
PART I
5. What was the price of regular gasoline the week of 12/24/07? The week of 9/10/01?
For the week of 12/24/07, the price of gasoline in Houston was $290.50. To get this answer, I used the Energy Information Administration’s website http://www.eia.doe.gov/. Once there, I clicked on “Petroleum” under Energy Resources (on the left hand side of screen). Under the heading “U.S. Data,” I clicked on “Weekly Retail Gasoline and Diesel Prices” (listed below the sub-heading Prices). If the patron wanted the average price in the United States, you would not limit it to any specific area, but assuming the patron wants the average price in Houston, you would select Houston from the drop down window on the top left where it says “Area:” This produces a gasoline price chart for the current week. Again, assuming that the patron is looking for the average for ALL grades of gasoline, I clicked on “2000-2008” under View History for All Grades – Reformulated Areas.
6. What was the price of oil per barrel of Maya 22° (Mexico) and Nigeria Bonny Light 27° on 1/11/08?
On 1/11/08, the price of crude oil per barrel for Maya 22° was $81.29. To get this answer, I used the Energy Information Administration’s website http://www.eia.doe.gov/. Once there, I clicked on “Petroleum” under Energy Resources (on the left hand side of screen). Under the heading “U.S. Data,” I clicked on “World Crude Oil Prices” (listed below the sub-heading Prices). I scrolled down to Mexico, Maya 22° (it’s Non-OPEC) and clicked on “1989-2008” under View History to see the price for the week with 1/11 as the end date.
7. Using the CDC’s Fastfacts A to Z, pick a health topic and report its statistics. Please provide the year of the data and the link to the page in your answer.
I clicked on Health of Mexican American Population and some interesting statistics, including the following:
Births per 1,000 women 15-44 years: 106.8
Percent of persons all ages in fair or poor health: 9.0
Percent of men 20 years and over who are overweight: 72 (2001-2004)
Percent of persons under 65 years without health insurance coverage: 36
(Link: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/mexican_health.htm)
10. Can you help me find a spot coal price for 1/25/08 for Illinois Basin coal?
The spot coal price for Illinois Basin on 1/25/08 was $34.00. To get this answer, I used the Energy Information Administration’s website http://www.eia.doe.gov/. Once there, I clicked on “Coal” under Energy Resources (on the left hand side of screen). Under the sub-heading “Prices” I clicked on “Spot Prices,” which took me to a chart that indicated spot prices for several dates, including 1/25/08.
PART II
1. How many people in the US speak Tagalog at home?
Table 52: Go to Population, and select Ancestry, Languages Spoken at Home. From the results, select 52 - Languages Spoken At Home by Language: 2005, in either PDF or Excel format, and that will provide a chart with the statistics for 2005.
4. How many persons were on the federal food stamp program in Texas in 2005?
Table 551: Go to Social Insurance & Human Services and select Food Programs. From the results, select 551 - Federal Food Programs: 1990 to 2006 in either Excel or PDF Format, and find the correct data for 2005.
8. What percentage of the American adult population is considered to be obese? What about Denmark?
Table 1308: Go to International Statistics and select Vital Statistics, Health, Education. From these results, select 1308 – Percentage of the Adult Population Consdered to be Obese: 2004. This table will show you the statistics for the United States and Denmark.
Part I. #1 What was the average CPI for 1958 for the US?
The annual average is 28.9. CPI>Inflation & consumer spending>hisoty> 1958
Part I. #2 How much buying power $10 the year you graduated from high shool has today? $57.68.
CPI>Inflation & consumer spending>inflation calculator> 10>1969
Part I. #6 What was the price of oil per barrel of Maya 22 and Nigeria Bonny light 27 on 1/11/08? $81.29 and $96.92.
EIA>petroleum>keyword search under "Maya 22 2008">view hisotry>week ends on 1/11/08
Part I. #11 How many births were there in Texas last year? 385,963 births-- preliminary data for 2005. CDC>fast stats A to Z>Texas.
Part II. #4 How many persons were on the federal food stamp program in Texas in 2005? Talbe 552 Federal food stamp program by state 1995-2006.
Part II. #5 How many US Post Offices were there in 2005? Table 1094 US postal service summary 1980-2006.
Part II. #9 How many books were sold in 2005? Table 1106 quatity of books sold and value of US domestic consumer expenditure 2005-2010.
Rosa
Part 1: Question About Oil Prices - I checked the Department of Energy Office of Energy Statistics. I clicked on the "Petroleum" link and then selected the link "World Crude Oil Prices". This brought up a listing of crude oil prices. There is a listing for Nigeria Bonny Light 37 not Bonny Light 27 as was cited in the question portion of the blog. By clicking on the "View History" link next to the type of crude oil, you can bring up a range of historical prices ranging from 1978 to 2008.
Part I question 2 according to the statistical abstract of the u.s. there were 385,963 births in texas in 2005. question 3 lawyers had a mean salary of 113,660. law clerks had a mean salary of 39,210,and arbitrators, mediators and conciliators had a mean salary of 58,790. these figures come from the may 2006 national occupational employment and wage estimate. question 4 cancer mortality number of deaths 553,888. deaths per 100,000 population 185.8 cause of death rank 2 source Deaths: final data for 2004 table C from the center for disease control website. Part 2 question 1 I found the answer in table 52 of the statistical abstract of u.s. question 3 I found the answer in table 1220 of the statistical abstract of u.s. question 4 I
found it in table 1094 of statistical abstract of u.s.
Part 1: Question Number 5 - I found the price of regular gasoline on the Energy Information Agency web site. By clicking on the link for Petroleum data, I found several categories of info. I selected the link "Weekly Gasoline and Diesel Prices." This brought up a listing of fuel prices for the months of March and February. To retrieve historical data, I clicked on the link "1990-2008." I used the link for regular gasoline, not the two subcategories of conventional vs. reformulated areas. Regular gasoline was at a $1.52 & 7/10 during the week of 9/10/01 and at $2.98 during the week of 12/24/07.
Part 1 Q2: How much buying power does $10 the year you graduated from high school have today. Went to BLS - Inflation and Consumer spending. Inflation calculator shows that $10 in 1967 has the equivalent of $63.38 buying power in 2008.
Part 1 Q3: Pick 3 occupations and list their mean annual salary. I went to the BLS site again and clicked on 800 occupations. Checked May 2006 wage estimates for Librarians ($50,860), Marine Engineers ($75,400) and Conservation Scientists ($55,410).
Part 1 Q5: Price of regular gasoline week of 12/24/07 and 9/10/01. Went to the Energy Information Administration website. Clicked on Latest data - retail gasoline price. Takes you to chart giving data nationally, regionally,statewide and for selected cities, for different time periods. Nationally you can search 1990-2008. Price was $2.98 a gallon nationally for week of 12/24/07, $1.52 a gallon for week of 9/10/01.
Part 1 Q11. How many births in Texas last year. Couldn't find data for 2007. Used National Center for Health Statistics. From CDC website clicked on FastStats - Texas - gives births 385,963 (preliminary data for 2005). You can also go to Faststats - Vital Statistics - Births - Population tables - State populations 2005. Category population under the age of 1 - gives a total of 379,873 (slightly different figure). This path is more complicated and I suspect the first total is more reliable.
Part I, Number 11: I checked both Fedstats.gov and the CDC's Fastfacts A to Z. The CDC Fastfacts gave the figure of births for Texas in 2005. Fedstats.gov listed the total number of births in Texas for 2004 (381,293). Fastfacts data had to be accessed thru the link "State and Territorial Data." It lists the number of births in Texas for 2005 as being 385,963. Interestingly, the figures from Fedstats.gov are listed as being taken from the CDC. The link from Fastfacts to Texas Dept. of Health website is not accurate.
Part I Question #11
I used the National Center for Health statistics website:
First I clicked on the letter "T". The Texas Stats were revealed and the birth information became available. Th answer to this question is 385,963.
Part I Question 1
I used the BLS database to answer this question. First I clicked on Comsumer Price Index and went under the heading "nflation & Consumer Spending". I then clicked on "Tables Created by BLS". From there I went to the "Tables Containing History of CPI-U-US ALl Items Indexed and Annual Percent Changes from 1913 to the Present". I used this table and scrolled down to 1958 and where I found teh answer 28.9.
Part I Question 7
To answer this question I used the CDC's database.
Once there, I clicked on Faststats A to Z. Then I selected the letter "A" which took me to the AIDS/HIV stats about Morbitity, Mortality, and More.
Morbidity -Table 52 reported that there were 42,514 new AIDS cases. Mortality -In Tables 10 and 11 the number of reprted deaths were 13,063 abd the deaths per 100,000 were 4.4
More data -Table 42 reported death rates for HIV by sex, race, Hispanic orgin and age, 1987 -2004.
Table 97 gave the rates of discharges and days of care in short stay hospitals by sex, age, and selected first-listed diagnoses: 1990-2004.
Table 98 reported discharges and average length of stay on short stay hospitals by sex, age, and selected first-listed diagnoses: 1990-2004.
Part II Question 1
I first went to the U.S. Census Bureau database. Once there I went to clicked on "Information and Communications" loceted under the "Browse Sections". I went to "Ancestry, Language Spoken at Home" located under the Population heading. I then found table 52 under the "ANcestry Language spoken at home" which gave me the answer.
Statistics Part I Question 1
I used the BLS database to answer this question.
Once there, I clicked on Consumer Price Index under the heading Consumer Spending. Then I went to Tables Created by BLS. From there I came to the table labeled Table Containing History of CPI- U-US. – All Items Indexes and Annual Percent Changes from 1913 to Present.
The answer is 28.9.
Part I Question 4
I also used the BLS database to answer this question.
First I went to the Industries Cost heading where I selected Producer Price Indexes. Then I went to Most Requested Stats and selected Commodity Data. From there, I selected Paper and Vitamins and selected Retrieve data.
The answer is 103.3 for vitamins and 167.4 for paper.
Part II Question 4
I used the Census.gov database for both of these questions.
First I went to Social Insurance and Human Services located on the left hand side of the screen and selected the Food Programs tab. Then I selected Table 552 which pulled up the Federal Stamp Program by State: 2000 to 2006 table where the answer was given.
Part II Question 5
First I went to Federal Government Finances and Employment. Then I selected Table 483 which took me to the Fulltime Federal Civilian Employment – Employees and Average Pay-by-Pay System: 1990 to 2006 table where I found the answer.
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