Federal Agencies and Resources

American FactFinder is the Census Bureau's source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data. Data sets from 1990 and 2000 census and 1997 economic census are available and custom tables and maps can be created from the data.

1997 Economic Census: Health Care and Social Assistance, United States
"Statistics include the number of establishments, employment, payroll, and value of sales, receipts, revenue, or shipments for establishments with paid employees." Data can also be refined by state or metropolitan area.

Publications: Population
Includes many statistical and other publications from the Census Bureau. General topics include consumer income and poverty, estimates and projections, household economic studies, population characterisctics, and more.

Economic Research Service
"ERS' program encompasses research, analyses of food and commodity markets, policy studies, and development of economic and statistical indicators." The site contains data sets and publications on many topics, including diet, consumption, and health; food and nutrition assistance programs; food safety; natural resources, environment, and conservation; food prices; trade; and many more.

CDC Organization
This is a directory of the major organizational components of CDC.

Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)
BRFSS is a continuously conducted telephone survey on health-related behaviors. Since 1997 all states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico participate in the survey. From the site you can get copies of questionnaires and some prevalence data. Information and results from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) is also available.

CDC State Profiles (National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion)
For each state, one may access information such as fact sheets, funding, legislation, reports, state-based programs and projects, statistics, and data.

CDC Wonder
CDC Wonder provides access to a variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and about 40 text-based and numeric databases. Numeric information includes census data, mortality data, and natality data as well as surveillance information.

Data and Statistics
This page provides quick links to much of the CDC's data, including surveillance, various databases, and laboratory information.

National Center for Health Statistics

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

Leading Causes Charts
Includes leading causes of death, non-fatal injury, and injury death. From the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control

National Health Information Center
"The National Health Information Center (NHIC) is a health information referral service. NHIC puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers."

Office of Public Health and Science

Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
» Healthy People 2010
» Healthy People 2000

Office of Minority Health

Office of the U.S. Surgeon General
Full-text Surgeon General reports from 1994 to present are available.

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation is "the principal advisor to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on policy development, and is responsible for major activities in the areas of policy coordination, legislation development, strategic planning, policy research and evaluation, and economic analysis."

Policy Information Center
PIC is the central source of information on policy research and evaluations conducted or supported by DHHS. Searches may be conducted by subject category; there is also a list of subjects to browse.

Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation)
This annual report provides the policy community with comprehensive data on the well-being of children and youth. More than 80 indicators of well-being are examined in the five broad areas: Population, family, and neighborhood; Economic security; Health conditions and health care; Social development and behavioral health; and Education and achievement. Earlier editions are also available.

Economic benefits and costs
Economic incentives
Size, composition, and effects of the pollution control industry
Risk assessment data used in economic analyses

NCEE also serves as a central point of contact for communicating and resolving cross-cutting technical economic issues. This site has:

Publications by NCEE, EPA, and others, including working papers
Careers & Internships for professionals to work for NCEE and students to obtain internships and fellowships
Grant announcements of current and future solicitations and a listing of past grant awards
Events (workshops, seminars, and conferences) sponsored by NCEE and others
Internet Links to environmental economics Web sites."

Science Inventory
"Science Inventory is a searchable, Agency-wide catalog of more than 4,000 science activities such as research, technical assistance and assessments, along with more than 750 peer-reviewed products. The database contains more than 19,000 records in the archives including project descriptions, products produced, types of peer review, links to related work and contacts for additional information. Users can conduct keyword searches or search within nine cross-cutting science topics."

Technology Transfer Network, Unified Air Toxics Website (EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards)
This site provides information on EPA programs and regulations as well as state and local programs. Emission data tables at the county level are available, as is data on the deposition of pollutants on urban waters. Also included are air toxics reduction and assessment tools and strategies.

Geological Survey. Environment and Human Health
This web site is devoted to the USGS's role in understanding environmental contributions to human health and disease. It includes many publications and fact sheets, as well as Human Health Related Data Sources, which is a guide to many databases produced by the USGS and others relevant to this topic (including the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, Arsenic in Ground Water of the U.S., Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends, and more).

MedPAC (Medicare Payment Advisory Commission)
"MedPAC is an independent federal body established to advise the U.S. Congress on issues affecting the Medicare program. MedPAC is also tasked with analyzing access to care, quality of care, and other issues affecting Medicare. The primary outlet for the Commission’s recommendations consists of two reports, published in March and June of each year. The Commission also publishes additional reports on a variety of subjects." These reports are all online.

National Toxicology Program
"NTP was established by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to coordinate toxicological testing programs within the Department; strengthen the science base in toxicology; develop and validate improved testing methods; and provide information about potentially toxic chemicals to health regulatory and research agencies, the scientific and medical communities, and the public."

Surgeons General's Reports on the Web
Full text (PDF) of all Surgeon General's Reports from 1964 to present. This site also includes relevant articles, bibliographies, proceedings, and photographs.

Publications and Databases

American Statistics Index via Statistical Universe
Note: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff, and students.
ASI indexes all statistical publications issued by U.S. government agencies back through 1973. State and international statistical publications are not covered. If the government agency has provided the full text on the web, links are provided to the source. ASI is one of the databases included in Statistical Universe.

Catalog of Federal Government Assistance
This site provides access to a database of all Federal assistance programs, and information on obtaining grants from them. Searchable by keyword and browsable by subject, agency, sub-agency, program deadline, and more.

Code of Federal regulations
The CFR is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.

County and City Data Book: 2000 edition
Data from the Census Bureau on states, counties, cities of more than 25,000 or more inhabitants, and places with 2,500 or more inhabitants.

County and City Data Books: 1988 and 1994 versions
"This resource provides WWW access to the electronic versions of the 1988 and 1994 County and City Data Books. This service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets." From the University of Virginia Library.

CQ Washington Information Directory
Note: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff, and students.
Includes over 10,000 entries on federal agencies, congressional committees and interest groups in Washington, D.C. Searchable by subject category, organization type and name. Part of the CQ Electronic Library collection.

Federal Register
The Federal Register is the official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents.

Federal Register via HeinOnline (1936 to 2009; select "Federal Register Library")
Note: Access limited to UCB faculty, staff, and students. Please logout when finished.

FedStats
Maintained by The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, this site provides access to statistics produced by more than 100 federal agencies.

GPO Access
GPO Access databases contain the full text of selected information published by the United States Government.

Grants.gov
"Grants.gov is a simple, unified "storefront" for all customers of Federal grants to electronically find, apply for, and manage grants. Grants.gov encompasses over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies. It streamlines the process of awarding over $350 billion annually to state and local governments, academia, not-for-profits and other organizations." Portal to federal gray literature from the Defense Technical Information Center, Dept. of Energy Information Bridge Report Collection, EPA's National Environmental Publications Internet Site. Subject areas include behavioral sciences, biological and medical sciences, chemistry, and environmental sciences. Some full text reports are available.

Health, United States (full text)
"Health, United States presents national trends in health statistics on such topics as birth and death rates, infant mortality, life expectancy, morbidity and health status, risk factors, use of ambulatory care and inpatient care, health personnel and facilities, financing of health care, health insurance and managed care, and other health topics." It is produced annually, with prior editions also available online.

healthfinder
healthfinder, a gateway consumer health information web site, was launched by Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna E. Shalala on April 15th, 1997 to improve consumers' access to federal health information online.

Public Technical Reports (Defense Technical Information Center)
STINET "provides access to citations of unclassified unlimited documents that have been entered into DTIC's Technical Reports Collection, as well as the electronic full-text of many of these documents. Public STINET also provides access to the Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals, Staff College Automated Military Periodical Index, DoD Index to Specifications and Standards, and Research and Development Descriptive Summaries." STINET documents cover all manner of public health topics: cancer screening, asthma, pesticide exposure, infectious diseases, etc.

State and Metropolitan Area Data Book 1997-98
The State and Metropolitan Area Data Book is a local area supplement to Statistical Abstract of the United States. Data is broken down by state and metropolitan area. Data includes but is not limited to population figures; vital statistics; Social Security, Food Stamp, and School Lunch Programs; Medicare and Medicaid. The full publications is available as a pdf file.

United States Code
The United States Code is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States.

USA Counties 1998
USA Counties provides data for the United States, 50 states and the District of Columbia, and counties. Some of the general topics covered include age, crime, earnings, education, health, housing, income, population, poverty, and vital statistics.

Guides

Guide to U.S. Legislative History Sources (UC Berkeley Library, Government Information)
How to access committee hearings, committee reports and documents, floor debates, conference reports, presidential actions, laws, and regulations.

State and Local Governments on the Net
This site has links for each state, as well as for multi-state entities and national organizations. For each state, there are links for statewide offices, agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, boards and commission, counties, cities, libraries, and more. The site is searchable by keyword.

Organizations and Agencies

Publications and Databases

Guides