Census
On the internet there are many sources of statistics about the number of people in a particular part of the country, their age, sex, race, ethnicity, income, etc. A part of the country could be a state, a county, a city, a zip code, or a census tract, among other things.
- FactFinder -- United States Census Bureau.
- Demographic Research Unit -- California State Dept. of Finance.
- Fresno Regional Data Center -- Council of Fresno County Governments.
- Counting California -- "...access to social science and economic data produced by government agencies." - Now provides convenient access to data from the 2000 Census.
Government
- White House
- "Thomas" legislative information service -- U.S. House of Representatives -- U.S.Senate
- FirstGov -- "the World Wide Web information portal for the U.S. Federal Government."
- FedStats -- Links to government agency
statistical sites.
- Bur of Labor Statistics (San Francisco) -- Latest Consumer Price Index TXT -- PDF -- Prior months PDF
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance -- Search for U.S. government grants & loans.
- GPO Access -- Electronic access to federal laws, bills, regulations, court decisions, etc.
- Copyright Office
- GrantsNet -- Find Health and Human Services grants.
- Patent Database -- from US Patent and Trademark Office. Images in TIFF format which requires a special viewer, for example AlternaTIFF. Alternative patent search sites are offered by Free Patents Online and Delphion.
- Social Security Administration home page -- Laws and Regulations.
- State of California -- home page for California state government.
- Trademark Database -- from the US Patent and Trademark Office.
- U.S. National Archives & Records Administration
- Zip Code Lookup from United States Post Office -- the ZIP Code Look-Up and City/State/ZIP Code Association are free services provided by the USPS.
- For more sites try Librarians' Index to the Internet -- Federal government