Looking for Historical Stats? Try this new resource!
How many lawyers were there in the United States in 1948? How has the size of the average American family changed in the past 100 years? How many Hispanic women live in the southern half of the country?
Need to find the answers to these questions and more? Check out Historical Statistics of the U.S. This compendium, produced by the Census Bureau since 1790, includes statistics on population, migration, poverty, nonprofit organizations, slavery, and Native Americans. It's now a part of the University of Minnesota Libraries' collection. Data sets are ready to be downloaded into Excel, CSV, or groups of tables as a zip file.
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