FIU Libraries: Psychology Research Resources: Find Statistics &amp; Data

Data Sources in the Health Sciences
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Statista This link opens in a new window
More than 1 million statistics from over 22,500 sources (including national and international data). Over 80,000 topics in 177 multidisciplinary categories. Industry reports, consumer market outlook reports, and more.

OECD Data

OECD Data This link opens in a new window
Find, compare and share the latest OECD data via charts, maps, tables and related publications; Browse statistics by topics/themes or countries.

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Childstats.gov
Compiled by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, this site serves as a portal to an assortment of data on children and families reported by 22 different government agencies. “America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being” is an annual online publication of the Forum. Users can view the full report or scan through its highlights. In addition to demographic statistics, data are available on topics such as emotional and behavioral difficulties, health care, family and social environment, and more.
National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) FastStats: Mental Health
This easy-to-use Web site provides simple access to basic mental health statistics. The More Data section includes statistical surveys and publications like Depression in the United States Household Population; access to the mental health trend tables from Health, United States; and more. Data sets are available for downloading and searching.
World Health Organization: Mental Health
Find factsheets, data, and more.
National Institutes for Mental Health: Statistics.
This site is useful for the researcher who needs to perform a quick look up. Science News about Statistics features press releases that contain statistics on mental illness from government sources and periodical articles. Publications about Statistics highlights online publications on mental health statistics such as “The Numbers Count: Mental Disorders in America.” This site contains good summary information and fact sheets.
SAMHDA Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive.
Contains raw data-sets from SAMHSA, codebooks, survey instruments, and tutorials. Users can also search across SAMHDA and ICPSR data sets for more.
SAMHSA’s National Mental Health Information Center (NMHIC)
SAMHSA has prioritized data, outcomes and quality - realizing an integrated data strategy and a national framework for quality improvement in behavioral health care will inform policy, measure program impact, and lead to improved quality of services and outcomes of individuals, families, and communities. Data helps SAMHSA and the nation assess the impact of the changes to US health care systems and identify and address behavioral health disparities.

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CDC Minority Health
The CDC's portal for minority health information. Includes basic information, data, statistics, reports, and more.
Injury Prevention & Control
CDC’s WISQARS™ (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) is an interactive, online database that provides fatal and nonfatal injury, violent death, and cost of injury data from a variety of trusted sources. Researchers, the media, public health professionals, and the public can use WISQARS™ data to learn more about the public health and economic burden associated with unintentional and violence-related injury in the United States.

PopLine This link opens in a new window
Indexes international scholarly publications in population, family planning and related health issues; Specializes in issues related to developing countries.

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is a program of studies designed to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States. The survey is unique in that it combines interviews and physical examinations.

FastStats
The CDC's FastStats site provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance, organized alphabetically.
Health Data Tools and Statistics
Collection of online resources with health data tools and statistics compiled by the Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce, a collaboration of U.S. government agencies, public health organizations, and health sciences libraries.

CDC WONDER This link opens in a new window
Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research -- an easy-to-use, menu-driven system that makes the information resources of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) available to public health professionals and the public at large; Access to a wide array of public health information and contains reports, guidelines and public health data.

NCHHSTP Atlas
Tool to explore data reported to CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP).

Children's Defense Fund: Research Library
Data from the Children's Defense Fund, a private, nonprofit organization with the mission of providing children successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
National Data Archive on Child Abuse & Neglect
The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) promotes scholarly exchange among researchers in the child maltreatment field. NDACAN acquires microdata from leading researchers and national data collection efforts and makes these datasets available to the research community for secondary analysis.

Bureau of Justice Statistics
Statistical Briefing Book
Statistics on juvenile populations and criminal justice from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
FIU Criminal Justice Guide: Find Statistics
Collection of resources for finding statistics on criminal justice.

SAMHSA’s National Mental Health Information Center (NMHIC)
SAMHSA has prioritized data, outcomes and quality - realizing an integrated data strategy and a national framework for quality improvement in behavioral health care will inform policy, measure program impact, and lead to improved quality of services and outcomes of individuals, families, and communities. Data helps SAMHSA and the nation assess the impact of the changes to US health care systems and identify and address behavioral health disparities.

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