What Online Database Is Best For Obtaining Statistics On Any Number Of Topics For The U.s. And The World?

[Bitten]

I would like to see details by age groups of how many people die each year in the US in car accidents - icluding types of accidents - medical problems, etc. I am not doing research just curious about these facts for the US and the world. How many people have what type of medical problems? How many survive these problems and how many die from them each year? What are the income ranges of Americans? The rest of the world population? What is the income for the top 5% of Americans? 10%? etc. I hear many statistics quoted on news shows but do not know where to search to verify or research any of these for my own edification. Some are very interesting statistic and some are very grim and disturbing.

[Armstrang]

.... but the CIA World Facts db gives a lot of information on many topics throughout the world. It is also regularly updated.http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html These are the headings of the CIA rank order pages:Population Birth rate Death rate Infant mortality rate Life expectancy at birth - total Total fertility rate HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS - deaths Economy GDP(purchasing power parity) GDP - real growth rate GDP - per capita Labor force Unemployment rate Inflation rate(consumer prices) Investment(gross fixed) Public debt Industrial production growth rate Electricity - production Electricity - consumption Oil - production Oil - consumption Oil - exports Oil - imports Oil - proved reserves Natural Gas - production Natural Gas - consumption Natural Gas - exports Natural Gas - imports Natural Gas - proved reserves Current account balance Exports Imports Reserves of foreign exchange and gold Debt - external Communications Telephones - main lines in use Telephones - mobile cellular Internet hosts Internet users Transportation Airports Railways - total Roadways - total Waterways Merchant marine - total Military Military expenditures - percent of GDP NationMaster is also good, with a slightly different range of stats categories:http://www.nationmaster.com/statistics/stats&all=1 Here are some of NationMaster's health topics:Health > Child maltreatment deaths 27 Health > Children living with AIDS 80 Health > Children living with AIDS(per capita) 80 Health > Children Underweight Rate 95 Health > Circulatory disease deaths 18 Health > Consultation with doctors 15 Health > Contraception 89 Health > Daily smokers 30 Health > Daily smokers > 1990 27 Health > Death from cancer 16 Health > Dependency ratio per 100 166 Health > Digestive disease deaths 26 Health > Drinking water availability % 147 Health > Drug access 163 Health > Duration of hospitalisation Other online stats sources used are Freedom House, which gives a yearly "comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties."http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=15&year=2005 and the Index of Economic Freedomhttp://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/countries.cfm

[Baldie]

voyager said: 1 salamanda, regarding your answer "I don't think you'd get all that from one db....":Thanks for the wealth of info. Points me in the right direction. 79 months ago

[Bomani]

The US government has a couple of places to go for this. I?ve had to go looking for some of this information before for my job.   The National Death Index might be helpful for some of your questions: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/deaths.htm   For income ranges, there?s census data available through www.census.gov- along with about a million and a half other demographics. You can get stuff stratified by census blocks, which are pretty small.   For a general example, I went through American Factfinder, Summary 3 and found this: PCT45. MEDIAN INCOME IN 1999(DOLLARS) BY SEX BY WORK EXPERIENCE IN 1999 FOR THE POPULATION 15 YEARS AND OVER WITH INCOME [6] - Universe: Population 15 years and over with income in 1999 Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3(SF 3) - Sample Data   United States Median income in 1999 --   Male --   Total 27,932 Worked full-time, year round in 1999 38,349 Other 15,125 Female --   Total 16,327 Worked full-time, year round in 1999 28,135 Other 9,936 U.S. Census Bureau Census 2000   You can get this sort of data on other geographic regions- states, counties and cities, so you can personalize the statistics you want. Census tracts are taken to be large enough so there is no personally identifiable data, though.   For motor vehicle statistics in particular, the NHTSA website may be the place to look. dondon 79 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

[Emmanuel]

I don't think you'd get all that from one db.... .... but the CIA World Facts db gives a lot of information on many topics throughout the world. It is also regularly updated.http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html These are the headings of the CIA rank order pages:Population Birth rate Death rate Infant mortality rate Life expectancy at birth - total Total fertility rate HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS - deaths Economy GDP(purchasing power parity) GDP - real growth rate GDP - per capita Labor force Unemployment rate Inflation rate(consumer prices) Investment(gross fixed) Public debt Industrial production growth rate Electricity - production Electricity - consumption Oil - production Oil - consumption Oil - exports Oil - imports Oil - proved reserves Natural Gas - production Natural Gas - consumption Natural Gas - exports Natural Gas - imports Natural Gas - proved reserves Current account balance Exports Imports Reserves of foreign exchange and gold Debt - external Communications Telephones - main lines in use Telephones - mobile cellular Internet hosts Internet users Transportation Airports Railways - total Roadways - total Waterways Merchant marine - total Military Military expenditures - percent of GDP NationMaster is also good, with a slightly different range of stats categories:http://www.nationmaster.com/statistics/stats&all=1 Here are some of NationMaster's health topics:Health > Child maltreatment deaths 27 Health > Children living with AIDS 80 Health > Children living with AIDS(per capita) 80 Health > Children Underweight Rate 95 Health > Circulatory disease deaths 18 Health > Consultation with doctors 15 Health > Contraception 89 Health > Daily smokers 30 Health > Daily smokers > 1990 27 Health > Death from cancer 16 Health > Dependency ratio per 100 166 Health > Digestive disease deaths 26 Health > Drinking water availability % 147 Health > Drug access 163 Health > Duration of hospitalisation Other online stats sources used are Freedom House, which gives a yearly "comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties."http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=15&year=2005 and the Index of Economic Freedomhttp://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/countries.cfm Sources: Him indoors - a fact freak!   salamanda's Recommendations The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 2007(World Almanac and Book of Facts) Amazon List Price: $12.99 Used from: $6.14 salamanda 79 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.

[Hotah]

salamanda, regarding your answer "I don't think you'd get all that from one db....":Thanks for the wealth of info. Points me in the right direction.

[Algie]

I?ve had to go looking for some of this information before for my job.   The National Death Index might be helpful for some of your questions: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/deaths.htm   For income ranges, there?s census data available through www.census.gov- along with about a million and a half other demographics. You can get stuff stratified by census blocks, which are pretty small.   For a general example, I went through American Factfinder, Summary 3 and found this: PCT45. MEDIAN INCOME IN 1999(DOLLARS) BY SEX BY WORK EXPERIENCE IN 1999 FOR THE POPULATION 15 YEARS AND OVER WITH INCOME [6] - Universe: Population 15 years and over with income in 1999 Data Set: Census 2000 Summary File 3(SF 3) - Sample Data   United States Median income in 1999 --   Male --   Total 27,932 Worked full-time, year round in 1999 38,349 Other 15,125 Female --   Total 16,327 Worked full-time, year round in 1999 28,135 Other 9,936 U.S. Census Bureau Census 2000   You can get this sort of data on other geographic regions- states, counties and cities, so you can personalize the statistics you want. Census tracts are taken to be large enough so there is no personally identifiable data, though.   For motor vehicle statistics in particular, the NHTSA website may be the place to look.

[juanito]

voyager said: 2 dondon, regarding your answer "The US government has a couple of places to go for this.":Thanks for the links. They are very helpful. I appreciate your feedback. 79 months ago

[Askook]

dondon, regarding your answer "The US government has a couple of places to go for this.":Thanks for the links. They are very helpful. I appreciate your feedback.