To anyone who might ask, "Where have all the artists gone?", the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has a very good answer. That answer is parsed out in this well-research 148-page publication titled "Artists in the Workforce: 1990-2005". Released in June 2008, the publication offers a nationwide look at artists' demographic and employment patterns in the 21st century. Working with extensive...

The University of Missouri-St. Louis Urban Information Center has recently updated this online application, which allows users to "generate a single 1990 'Basic Tables' (demographic profile) report for any of the supported geographic units, including census tract, block group, city (no size limit), 5-digit ZIP code, state, county or metro area for anywhere in the United States. Examples are...

The Census Bureau Data FERRET System (Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool, discussed in the June 6, 1997 Scout Report) has recently added the CPS Public Basic Monthly (Jan 1994-Present, CPSPUB) microdata file to its data collection. Additional CPS data collections available at the site include Displaced Workers Supplement: 1996; Job Tenure Supplement: 1996; Race & Ethnicity:...

Texas-based Ersys market research company now makes much of its demographic and geographic data available for free here with this handy tool. From the homepage of the Ersys database, users select a state and then choose from a list of cities and towns to view information on population, climate and pollution, politics, media, income, education, transportation, and much more. The demographics...

Part of the Historical Census Projects at the University of Minnesota and funded in part by the National Science Foundation, the IPUMS consists of twenty-five high-precision samples of the American population drawn from thirteen federal censuses. Some of these samples have existed for years, and others were created specifically for this database. The twenty five samples span the censuses of 1850...

Subtitled "census data for the classroom and demographic media for all audiences," this Website "makes the latest US census surveys and demographic trends accessible to educators, policymakers, the media, and students at all levels." The Website also offers downloadable datasets and instructional materials to help teachers incorporate data analysis in the classroom as well as a trial download of...

The US Census Bureau has released the online version of the 118th edition of the Statistical Abstract of the United States, an annual compendium of statistics profiling the social, demographic, and economic conditions in the US. The 1998 edition contains almost 1,700 tables and graphs, which present summaries of local, state, regional, national, and selected international data, including "93 new...

The US Census Bureau offers this exhaustive compendium of national, regional, state, local, and selected international statistics drawn from "reports and records of government and private agencies." The book (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] format only) is divided into 31 topical chapters, composed mostly of annual time series data. Unfortunately, as there is no table of contents, the best finding aid is the...

The first piece of good news is that the US Census Bureau has made the newest addition of this exhaustive compendium of national, regional, state, local, and selected international statistics drawn from "reports and records of government and private agencies" available (Adobe Acrobat [.pdf] format only). The second piece of good news is that the site where the volume resides has been reorganized...

Dubbed "the National Data Book" by the Census Bureau, this online tome offers a vast collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. A special feature of the 1999 edition is a new section, "20th Century Statistics," "which presents data beginning in 1900 where available on a broad range of subjects such as population, education, income and labor force." Selected...