Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Data Reference Basics

2. General Sources

3. Agriculture and Food

4. Crime

5. Earth Science—General

6. Earth Science—Air, Climate, and Weather

7. Earth Science—Water

8. Economics—General

9. Economics—Government Finance

10. Economics—Firms and Industries

11. Economics—Commodities

12. Economics—Labor

13. Economics—Macroeconomic Accounts

14. Economics—Banks and Lending

15. Economics—Real Estate

16. Economics—Trade and Tariffs

17. Education

18. Energy

19. Health and Health Care

20. People and Households

21. Political Science—Elections

22. Political Science—War and Peace

23. Political Science—Other

24. Public Opinion Surveys

25. Transportation

26. Spatial Data

27. When All Else Fails: Using Article Databases, WorldCat, and Real Live People to Find Data

Appendixes

A Citing Data

B Getting Started with the Survey Documentation and Analysis Software

Index