http://stats.bls.gov/
This unit of the United States Department of Labor is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics including Employment and Unemployment Data. Important programs and surveys include:
National Compensation Survey: The National Compensation Survey (NCS) provides detailed occupational earnings for metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, broad geographic regions, and on a national basis.
Consumer Price Indexes: Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) program produces monthly data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services.
Producer Price Index: The Producer Price Index (PPI) program measures the average change over time in the selling prices received by domestic producers for their output.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/
This statistical agency of the U.S. Department of Energy collects and disseminates data on energy reserves, production, consumption, distribution, prices, technology, and related international, economic and financial matters. Coverage of EIA’s programs includes data on coal, petroleum, natural gas, electric and nuclear energy.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/Default.htm
The Faststats site provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages.
Statistical Abstract of the United States (Paper version--REF 317.3 S797)
2008 edition available online: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/index.html
(on 1/28/08 unable to access 2007 edition online via Census.gov)
The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations. HPL has the Statistical Abstract in paper dating back to 1907 in Government Documents.
LexisNexis Statistical Universe enables easy access to statistics produced by the U.S. government, major international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities.
Fedstats
http://www.fedstats.gov/
FedStats is the gateway to the United States statistical system, providing access to statistical information from more than 100 federal agencies.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
This site, compiled by the Documents Center of University of Michigan highlights numerous government statistical resources available through the web.
- What was the average CPI (consumer price index) for 1958 for the United States? (bonus if you can find it for Austria in 1958 for 1982-1984=100 using Statistical Universe)
- Using the inflation calculator on the BLS website, see how much buying power $10 the year you were born or graduated from high school has today.
- From the May 2006 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, pick 3 occupations and list their mean annual salary.
- What is the 2006 annual PPI (producer price index) for vitamins? For paper?
- What was the price of regular gasoline the week of 12/24/07? The week of 9/10/01?
- What was the price of oil per barrel of Maya 22° (Mexico) and Nigeria Bonny Light 27° on 1/11/08?
- Using the CDC’s Fastfacts A to Z, pick a health topic and report its statistics. Please provide the year of the data and the link to the page in your answer.
- Can you find me a table showing the mean time spent with a physician? I am interested in the average time an ophthalmologist spends with a patient.
- Can you help me find some data that is less than five years old on pipeline incidents in Texas?
- Can you help me find a spot coal price for 1/25/08 for Illinois Basin coal?
- How many births were there in Texas last year? If you can’t find data for 2007, how old is the data that you can find?
- How many people in the US speak Tagalog at home?
- How many cornea grafts occurred in 2003?
- How many military reserve personnel were there in 2004?
- How many persons were on the federal food stamp program in Texas in 2005?
- How many US Post Offices were there in 2005?
- Compare the number of households with computers and internet access in Texas.
- What were the average premiums for renters and homeowners insurance for the US? For Texas?
- What percentage of the American adult population is considered to be obese? What about Denmark?
- How many books were sold in 2005?
- How many NCAA rowing teams were there in 2004-05?
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Statistics Scavenger Hunt Questions
Part I.
No. 1
The average CPI for 1958 for the United States was 28.9.
This can be found by going to:
http://stats.bls.gov
Under “Inflation & Consumer Spending”, click on: Consumer Price Index
Click on: Get Detailed CPI Statistics
Click on:
Table Containing History of CPI-U U.S. All Items Indexes and Annual Percent Changes From 1913 to Present
The answer is on the line “1958”, third column from right
The table can be printed out in a reasonably readable form by selecting landscape, legal-size paper.
I’ll answer more of Part I later.
Statistics Scavenger Hunt Questions
Part I.
No. 7
Adolescent Health
(Data are for U.S. for year indicated)
Health status
Percent of adolescents 12-17 years of age with fair or poor health: 2.0
Percent of adolescents 12-17 years of age who missed 11 or more days of school in the past 12 months because of illness or injury: 5.9
Source: Summary Health Statistics for U.S. Children: National Health Interview Survey, 2006, Appendix III, Tables VIII, X
Health risk factors
Percent of adolescents 12-19 years of age who are overweight: 17 (2001-2004)
Source: Health United States, 2006, Table 74
Percent of adolescents 12-17 years of age who smoked cigarettes in the past month: 12 (2004)
Percent of adolescents 12-17 years of age who used alcohol in the past month: 18 (2004)
Source: Health United States, 2006, Table 66
Access to health care
Percent of adolescents 12-17 years of age without health insurance: 11.1
Percent of adolescents 12-17 years of age with no usual source of health care: 6.9
Source: Summary Health Statistics for U. S. Children: National Health Interview Survey, 2006, Appendix III, Tables XIII, XIV
Mortality
Number of deaths for adolescents 15-19 years of age: 13,812
Deaths per 100,000 population for adolescents 15-19 years of age: 67.8
Number of deaths for leading causes of deaths among adolescents 15-19 years of age:
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 7,137
Homicide: 1,892
Suicide: 1,513
Source: Deaths: Leading Causes for 2002, Table 1
Statistics Scavenger Hunt Questions
Part I.
No. 11
381,441 total live births in Texas, 2004, according to the fact sheet “Selected Health Facts 2004” on the Texas Department of State Health Services website. This was the most recent information on that website. I haven’t investigated whether anybody has more up-to-date statistics. I found my way to this website by going to google and entering:
births Texas
Statistics Scavenger Hunt Questions
Part I.
No. 8
Such a table (for amount of time spent with an ophthamoloist by a patient) exists in the publication “Advancedata no. 31 7/14/78—Office Visits to Ophthalmologists: National Ambulatory Medial Care Survey, United States, 1976”, found on the website:
www.cdc.go/nchs
I went to that website and in the search box typed in:
Time patient ophthalmologist
The chart does not show the mean time spent, but shows how many patients spent “1-5 min.”, “6-10 min.”, etc., up to “31 min. or more”, so the mean could be calculated.
I have not investigated whether there are more recent statistics.
Statistics Questions
Part II
I used the 2008 Statistical Abstract for all these questions.
No. 1 Table 52 - Languages spoken at home - gave the figure for Tagalong in 2005 .
No. 3 Table 502 - Military Reserve Personnel - had data for 1990-2006
No. 8 Table 199 - Age-adjusted Percent Distribution of BMI - had data for 2003-2004. Figures for Denmark were included in Table 1308 - Percentage of the Adult population considered to be obese, 2004.
Statistics Scavenger Hunt Part 2
Questions #1,2,3
1)How many people in the US speak Tagalog at home?
#1 Table 52 Languages Spoken at Home by Language 2005
2)How many cornea grafts occurred in 2003?
#2 Table 162 Organ Transplants & Grafts 1990-2006
3)How many military reserve personnel were there in 2004?
#3 Table 502 Military Reserve Personnel: 1990-2006
Stats Part 1
#2: Question: Using the inflation calculator on the BLS website, see how much buying power $10 the year you were born or graduated from high school has today.
Answer: I used the Bureau of Labor Statistics A-Z index. I went to inflation retail, then inflation calculator. $10 in 1975 would have $38.54 in buying power in 2007.
#3 Question: From the May 2006 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates, pick 3 occupations and list their mean annual salary
Answer: I used the BLS A-Z index. I went through occupations/employment. I clicked on current(May 2006). The mean annual salaries are as follows
Loan counselor - 41,840; Civil Engineer - 72,120; Librarians - 50,860
#6 Question: What was the price of oil per barrel of Maya 22° (Mexico) and Nigeria Bonny Light 27° on 1/11/08?
Answer: I used the energy info administration site. I clicked on Petroleum, then I went through world crude oil prices. There you saw the chart with the prices. Maya22 was 81.29. Bobbylight 27 was 97.00
#7 Question: Using the CDC’s Fastfacts A to Z, pick a health topic and report its statistics. Please provide the year of the data and the link to the page in your answer.
Answer: I went to the CDC site. I clicked on K then went to kidney. You can find all of the stats there.
Part I: Statistics
1. How many people in the US speak Tagalog at home?
I went to the U. S. Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/index.html )
I went under the "Browse Sections"heading and clicked on "Information and Communications". Once there, I scrolled down to Populations (listed under the browse section) and clicked on "Ancestry, Language Spoken at home", then on the right of the screen I found "tables for Populations section" (table #52) under the "Ancestry Language spoken at home" and found the answer to this question
My last comment was from Part II: Question #1.
This answer is for Part I: Question #1
What was the average CPI (consumer price index) for 1958 for the United States? (bonus if you can find it for Austria in 1958 for 1982-1984=100 using Statistical Universe)
On the BLS database: http://stats.bls.gov/ is where this answer was located. Once on the website I clicked on Consumer Price Index under the heading of Inflation & Consumer Spending. Then I clicked on Tables Created by BLS. I then went to tables labeled Tables Containing History of CPI-U-US All Items Indexed and Annual Percent Changes from 1913 to the present using this table I scrolled down to 1958 and found the answer.
The answer to this question is 28.9
Statistics: Part I: Question #7:
7. Using the CDC’s Fastfacts A to Z, pick a health topic and report its statistics. Please provide the year of the data and the link to the page in your answer.
Once I entered the CDC database, I clicked on Faststats A to Z (located to the left of the screen), then I selected the letter "A" and clicked on the link for AIDS/HIV statistics.
Once there, I found information on the disease in the subjects of: Morbidity, Mortality and More data was offered about hospital stays, HIV testing and etc.
The following is part of the information given on the site. The information was gathered in 2004. The link to this page is: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/aids-hiv.htm
Morbidity
Number of new AIDS cases: 42,514 (2004)
Source: Health, United States, 2006, Table 52
Mortality
Number of deaths: 13,063
Deaths per 100,000 population: 4.4
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2004, Tables 10, 11
More data
Death rates for HIV by sex, race, Hispanic origin and age, 1987-2004 Health, United States, 2006, Table 42
Rates of discharges and days of care in short stay hospitals by sex, age, and selected first-listed diagnoses: 1990-2004 Health, United States, 2006, Table 97
Discharges and average length of stay in short stay hospitals by sex, age, and selected first-listed diagnoses: 1990-2004 Health, United States, 2006, Table 98
Statistics Part I: Question #2
2. Using the inflation calculator on the BLS website, see how much buying power $10 the year you were born or graduated from high school has today.
I went to the BLS website and under the Inflation and Consumer Spending, I clicked on the inflation calculator, entered the dollar ($10.00) amount and selected the year 1988 and clicked calculate.
Answer: I found that $10.00 was worth 17.89 in 1988.
Statistics, Part 1
#1 - From BLS.GOV, select "consumer price index", then "get detailed CPI statistics" select table and the year. Since it wasn't specified, I used Urban wage earners and clerical workers, and the base year 1967=100. The answer is 86.6.
#2 - From BLS, the inflation calculator in listed in the category "inflation and consumer spending." The buying power numbers for year born and year graduated are pretty amazing, a little scary.
#5 From EIA.DOE.GOV, select petroleum > prices > petroleum >weekly retail gasoline and diesel prices > select "regular" and then view history for previous dates.
Part II: Question #4
How many persons were on the federal food stamp program in Texas in 2005?
I used the Census database for this answer located at:
www.census.gov/compendia/statab/index.html
Once on this site, I clicked on "Social "Insurance and Human Services" under "Browse sections" located on the left side of the screen. I then clicked on the "Food Program" link. I selected Table 552 "Federal Stamp Program by State: 2000 to 2006 which listed the answer.
Part II: Question #5:
How many US Post Offices were there in 2005?
I used the Census database for this answer as well.
Under "Browse Section" I clicked on "Federal Government Finances and Employment. Then I clicked on Table 483: Fulltime Federal Civilian Employment - Employees and Average Pay-by-Pay System: 1990 to 2006 and found the answer.
statistics, part 1 - last question, ran out of time on previous post
#10 for spot proce of Illinois coal , go to EIA , choose Coal > Prices > spot prices. Since the date requested is not on the current page > previous issues
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