The Census Bureau’s Web site offers far more than its up-to-the-second clocks with estimates of the U.S. and world populations. There is, of course, a general summary of the most recent census. A link from the home page brings up the American FactFinder, which allows the user to retrieve complete census breakdowns of the U.S. population by age, race, home ownership status and many other categories within cities, counties, states or even ZIP codes. The FactFinder is also the place to find complete data sets organized according to congressional district boundaries. The Statistical Abstract of the United States offers an extensive, text-based explanation of the census data, including information about immigration. Census provides annual updates of U.S. household income, as well as data on Americans living in poverty and persons with and without health insurance.
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A branch of the United Nations, the World Health Organization seeks to improve global health conditions, in part by publishing “evidence-based policy options.” The WHO’s Web site provides statistics and publications that contain country-specific data and insight into global health trends. The publications page includes archived books, articles and magazines, all free to the public, on such topics as traveling, medications and epidemics. […]
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