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Mailman School of Public Health

The Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health

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Additional Resources

US:

For US Data- different levels of analysis (country, state, city, health district, census tract, zip code)- Decide on appropriate level based on research question. Different sources of info are aggregated at different levels.

Infoshare http://www.infoshare.org/ This website has the latest census counts and estimates, aggregated at different levels of geography (state, place/city, census tract, block, zip code).

PRB- AmeriStat web site has easy to access state information

Census http://www.census.gov/

Current Population Survey http://www.bls.gov/cps/

CDC http://www.cdc.gov/scientific.htm and http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/international/relres.html

National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/default.htm

U.S. Department of Health Statistic Pages http://www.hhs.gov/reference/index.shtml#statistics

 

International:

POPIN, United Nations Population Division (which includes information from various divisions within UN (WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR) http://www.un.org/popin/data.html.

United Nations Statistical Office has national census data- specific to country, You can also try searching on line using the name of the country as part of the address, i.e. Japan http://www.stat.go.jp/english/

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) http://www.measuredhs.com/

Forced migration www.forcedmigration.org

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