Finding Statistics
A Faulk Central Library Research Guide
Why include statistics?
Statistics add significance, importance, and interest to your paper, speech, or presentation. Make sure the statistics are current and from a reliable source, such as a magazine or newspaper article, a government website, or a reliable organization.
Finding statistics in magazines, newspapers and journals
APL Online Databases
- Academic Search
- Factiva
- MasterFile Premier
- Use the Boolean logic term AND to overlap two or more subjects: statistics and health
Other keywords to add to your topic search term are:
analysis, data, “fact sheet”, measure, occurrence, trends, incident*
- Truncate your terms. Most common truncation symbol is the asterisk (*).
The term statistic* will find articles with the terms statistics, statistical, statistic.
your topic and statistic*
your topic and (statistic* or data)
Finding statistics on government and organization websites
General Sources
Agriculture
Charities
Crime and Criminal Justice
Disability
Demographics
Economy
Education
Employment
Energy
Environment
Global
Health
Historical
Housing
Immigration
Industry
Prices
Religion
States
Texas
Trade
Transportation
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