GOVT 3583/PAM 3583 (Spring 2025): Comparative Public Policy: Finding statistics and analysis

Organized under 9 themes: General and regional statistics; Economy and finance; Population and social conditions; Industry, trade and services; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; External Trade; Transport; Environment and energy; Science and technology.

Statistics on expenditure by function (sickness/health care, disability, old age, survivors, family/children, unemployment, housing and social exclusion);
receipts by type and sector of origin;
number of pension beneficiaries by sex;
net social benefits, meaning the expenditure in social benefits less taxes and social contributions paid on them.

OECD Data Explorer contains all the datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development). It replaces OECD.stat

UN statistics on Crime ~ Education ~ Energy ~ Environment ~ Finance ~ Food and Agriculture ~ Gender ~ Health ~ HIV/AIDS ~ Human development Indicator database ~ Industry~ Information and Communication Technology ~ Labour ~ National accounts ~ Official Development Assistance ~ Population ~ Refugees ~ Tourism ~ Trade

"...publications, journals, data, and series on a wide range of topics of interest to the United Nations.

-- A guide to international statistics
-- A guide to U.S. statistics

"The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct in-depth research that leads to new ideas for solving problems facing society at the local, national and global level." [About Brookings]

GAO, often called the "congressional watchdog,” is an independent, non-partisan agency that works for Congress. GAO examines how taxpayer dollars are spent and provides Congress and federal agencies with objective, non-partisan, fact-based information to help the government save money and work more efficiently.

Health Policy Analysis

Helpful for state-level policy issues, generally. Search tip:. Enter broad topic terms, e.g. Education, Medicaid, Disability. etc. to find topic overviews and 50-state legislative surveys.

Links to all of the federal agency programs that collect, analyze, and disseminate statistical data and information. Note: Some US government sites are going offline, either temporarily or permanently. I am adding archived sites to the U.S. Data Sources section of A guide to International and U.S. Data Sources.

Includes bills, laws, hearing transcripts, committee reports, documents, and the Congressional Record. Search tip: Go to the Advanced Search to limit your search to CRS: Congressional Research Service reports. CRS reports provide excellent overviews of policies and legislation, often including statistical tables.