Human Development and Family Studies: Quick Facts

HANDBOOKS

• Graduate and Undergraduate Study in Marriage and Family: a guide to Bachelor's, Master's, and Doctoral programs in the United States and Canada
  Ellis Library Reference HQ 535 .G66766 2002-2004

STATISTICAL INFORMATION

• Census Data

  Population, housing, economic, and geographic data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau.

  Internet	1990-present	http://factfinder.census.gov/
  Internet	1790-present	http://www.census.gov/population/www/censusdata/hiscendata.html

• Child Trends Databank
  Online resource from Child Trends, a nonprofit nonpartisan research organization.  This keyword database supplies information, primarily statistical, on over 70 indicators of child and youth well-being.  Includes research on dating, television viewing, athletics, volunteering, computer use, etc.
• ChildStat.gov
  This web site offers access to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families.
• Families and Living Arrangements
  Reports and statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau.
• Family Fact File
  This site, which provides information on current family issues and statistics on the family, is produced by  Public Agenda, a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization based in New York .
• Fedstats
  Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.
• National Survey of Family Growth
  Selected data from a survey conducted periodically by the National Center for Health Statistics since 1973. State of America's Children   Ellis Library Reference HV 741 .C5375   Annual report from the Children's   Defense Fund. 
• State of the World's Children
  Ellis Library Reference  HQ 792.2 .S73 Annual report from UNICEF
• Statistical Abstract of the U.S
  Ellis Library Ready Reference HA 202 .A38  (print copy) Summarizes, in tables, U.S. statistics. The subject index is in the back of the print volume and is also available in the online version.  The numbers in the index refer to chart numbers, not page numbers.
• Lexis Nexis Statistical  
  MU Only Finding aid for statistical data on a wide variety of topics.   Includes direct access to recent statistical data. Coverage is 1973 to date.

Last updated: 12/05/05