North American Demography

US CensusUS Census
( Online email assistance, American FactFinder search engine, data extraction, County & City Data Book,Census briefs / statistical briefs, Statistical Abstract of the United States, population estimates and projections, job announcements, and much more)
* U.S. decennial census PDF printed reports for 1790-2000 censuses
* U.S. Census Bureau Census 2000 homepage and American FactFinder search engine
* ICPSR Census 2000 page, Warren Glimpse's Census 2000 Data Access and Use homepage, CensusScope by SSDAN
* U.S. Census Bureau Census 2010 homepage

U.S. Immigration
* U.S. Census Foreign-Born Population page
* Department of Homeland Security Immigration Statistics
* Migration Information Source
* Pew Hispanic Center research topics: Immigration

Basic Tables Dynamic Report Generator (Quick way to get USA 1990 Census summary reports for an area)

Statistics Canada
(Similar to the U.S. Census in terms of offerings, information on various aspects of the Canadian population is available at this site, as well as the CANSIM database.)


(Instituto Nacional de Estadística Geografía e Informática (INEGI). Mexican census info and tables. Pages are in Spanish; non-speakers may consider using a free translation service such as Babelfish or Systran )

CIESIN USA Demography homepage (An impressive collection of U.S. data sources. .)

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Includes labor force statistics from the Current Population Survey

Econdata.Net

White House Social Statistics Briefing Room (Basic page for the latest demographic statistics on the USA)

Ecanned.com ("Ecanned.com is a service designed to deliver economic information to individuals in an easy, ready-to-use format.")

Dataplace.org ("Besides housing, federal finance, and census SF3 data, it has a neat facility for ranking areas and for mapping." ) new

Claritas PRIZM cluster descriptions (archived from 2002) ( Claritas homepage, with PRIZM ZIP Code Look-Up)


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Lastly, some dataset homepages:


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