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DataNet Minnesota Health Profiles
http://www.mnplan.state.mn.us/datanetweb/health.html
Look at the whole state or one specific county for statistics on births, deaths, teen pregnancies, motor vehicle injuries, and the economic costs of smoking.

Facts & Figures
http://www.dted.state.mn.us/05x00f.asp
Click on "Economic Statistics" for the full-text of Compare Minnesota, Minnesota Business Activity, Minnesota Industry Statistics, and Minnesota's Economy At A Glance.

Land Management Information Center DATANET
http://www.lmic.state.mn.us/dnet/datanet.htm
This is a megasite for Minnesota statistics. You can find data here on land use, crime, health profiles, "Children's Report Card", retail sales, and "Substance Abuse Monitoring".

MinnStats - MN Socioeconomic Data A-Z
http://www.minnstats.org/data.html
Links from A to Z to statistics about Minnesota agriculture, business, crime, education, employment, health, income, population, taxes, and more.

MNPRO - Quick Search
http://www.mnpro.com/
Click on "Community Profile Reports", then on "Report Type: Community Profile" before selecting the community or county report. Each of the 800+ community profiles include statistics on the city's population, major employers, workforce, wages, housing sales, medical facilities, economic development services, and other information.

State Demographic Center Home Page
http://www.mnplan.state.mn.us/demography/index.html
This is a great source of information about population and demographic trends in Minnesota. Income levels, school enrollments, labor shortages, and immigrant populations are only a few of the special reports available at this site.

stateline.org: Minnesota
http://www.stateline.org/minnesota/
Compare Minnesota with any other state or find its ranking within the U.S. on taxation, expenditures for education, the environment, and corrections; crime and incarceration rates; population by racial group, income; average auto insurance costs and motor vehicle deaths. Includes discussions of current state issues.

1997 Economic Census
http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/econ97.html
Collected every five years, the economic census reports on the number of manufacturing, wholesale trade, healthcare, hotel/restaurant, and retail sales establishments in counties and large metropolitan areas. It also has statistics on payrolls and on total sales figures.

American FactFinder
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet/
"Start With Basic Facts" about population and housing statistics and business and industry facts, or "Search" by place name for statistics about a specific community. Census 2000 population figures for redistricting are now available.

Bureau of Justice Statistics
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/
Statistics on crime and victims, criminal offenders, and the justice system as a whole can be found here, along with "Special Topics" like world crime and firearms and crime.

Census Tract Street Locator
http://tier2.census.gov/ctsl/ctsl.htm
Enter an address and zip code to find 1990 census data on the number of people and number of households in that census tract area, and on the socioeconomic characteristics of the people who live within it.

Consumer Price Indexes
http://stats.bls.gov/cpihome.htm
Look under "News Releases", then click on "Consumer Price Index Summary" for the most recent monthly report on the Consumer Price Index. For a table showing the annual inflation rate for past years, look under "Data" and click on "Table Containing History of CPI-U U.S. All Items Indexes and Annual Percent Changes From 1913 to Present".

County and City Data Books
http://fisher.lib.Virginia.EDU/ccdb/
The University of Virginia Library, Social Science Data Center makes these statistics from the 1988 and 1994 County and City Data Book available. Search by state or by the type of data -  population, number of households, births, social security recipients, crime rate, school enrollment, labor force, farms, manufacturing, retailing, income, and other factors.

Encyclopedia of ED Stats
http://nces.ed.gov/edstats/
Click on the Condition of Education:2000, Digest of Educational Statistics:1999,  Educational Indicators, or Youth Indicators:1996, for statistics about all phases of education in the United States.

FedStats
http://www.fedstats.gov/
Search this megasite for statistics collected by more than 100 federal government agencies.

Kids Count
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/
Collects statistics on children from infancy through adolescence. Includes statistics on infant deaths, child care availability, teen pregnancy, adolescent deaths, high school dropouts, and many other indicators of the educational, social, economic, and physical well-being of children.

1998 Metropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates
http://stats.bls.gov/oes/1998/oessrcma.htm
Choose a state, then a metropolitan area, and finally, an occupational division to get salary ranges for different jobs.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/
More than 500 databases about criminal justice are available through this site, including special reports and historical statistics on crime.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
http:/www.census.gov/statab/www/
Click on the Adobe Acrobat link for the full-text of the latest edition of this annual compendium of statistical information.

Statistical Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/stats.html
Links to statistics about agriculture, business & industry, cost of living, demographics, economics, education, energy, environment, foreign government and foreign trade, government finance, health, housing labor, politics, science, social issues, transportation, weather - you name it, they've got it!

U.S. Census Bureau Subjects A to Z
http://www.census.gov/main/www/subjects.html
From the number of African-Americans in the United States to zip code statistics, this is THE place to find census data.

USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service Publications
http://www.usda.gov/nass/pubs/pubs.htm
Very comprehensive source of agricultural statistics, including crops data, grain stores, livestock data, state agricultural reports, and Statistical Highlights of U.S. Agriculture.

InfoNation: Choose Countries
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm
Select a country or countries to look at by clicking on the tiny box in front of the name of each country. Scroll to the end of the section and click on "Data Menu" to get brief information and statistics about the geography, economy, population, and social indicators for countries belonging to the United Nations.

World Bank Group - Development Data: Country Data
http://www.worldbank.org/data/countrydata/countrydata.html
Select a country from the 206 listed on the drop-down menu to get statistics from 1990, 1997, and 1998 about its people, environment, economy, technology and infrastructure, and trade and finance.

World Factbook 2000
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Click on "Country Listing" for outline maps of foreign countries, brief facts, and statistics collected by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

World Health Report 2000
http://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/report.htm
Latest comparison of healthcare systems from the World Health Organization. Adobe Acrobat is needed to view the data.