LibGuides: Social Work -- Beginning Research: US Statistics & Government Sites

Government Web Pages

Catalog of US Government Publications
Covers Executive branch publications and some Legislative branch reports.
Federal Executive Branch
Links to the Offices of the President, Executive Departments and Agencies.
FindLaw
Federal and state laws.
Google US Government Search
Add .gov or .mil to any search words to find US government web sites.
State and Local Government on the Net
Links to state, county and other local government web sites.
State Government Web Pages
Links to state and territory web pages.
Thomas
Current legislation and legislative history for the US Congress.
govinfo
govinfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

Explore Census Data
The source for US population, housing, economic and geographic data from Census 2000, the 1990 Decennial Census, the 1997 and 2002 Economic Censuses and more.
FEDSTATS Agencies Page
Links to US federal agencies represented on the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy.
US Census Bureau
"The statistics keeper for the nation," the US Census Bureau tracks not only socio-economic and population statistics about the US, it also offers links to international population data, foreign trade statistics, and a commodity groupings database.