Statistical Resources

2006 Community Profiles

[Free to all]

Statistics Canada

These profiles contain free information for all Canadian communities (cities, towns, villages, Indian reserves and Indian settlements, etc.), for counties or their equivalents and for metropolitan areas, and health regions.

2008 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports.

[Free to all]

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Reports measure trends in effectiveness of care, patient safety, timeliness of care, patient centeredness, and efficiency of care. These reports present, in chart form, the latest available findings on quality of and access to health care.

Advance data from Vital & health statistics of the National Center for Health Statistics

[Free to all]

National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)

Timely analyses of data from surveys and data collection, frequently followed by detailed reports published in the Vital and Health Statistics series.

AgingStats.gov.

[Free to all]

Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics.

The Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics (Forum) was initially established in 1986, with the goal of bringing together federal agencies that share a common interest in improving aging-related data. The goals of the Forum are to improve both the quality and use of data on the aging population.

Ambulatory care visits to physician offices, hospital outpatient departments, and emergency departments :United States.

[Free to all]

Schappert, Susan M.

Library keeps most recent edition only. Current and past editions available online via link above.

Ambulatory health care visits by children : principal diagnosis and place of visit

[Free to all]

Freid, Virginia M.

"May 1998."

Ambulatory and inpatient procedures in the United States.

[Free to all]

National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)

Library keeps most recent edition only. Current and past editions available online via link above.

American FactFinder

[Free to all]

U.S. Census Bureau

Offers expanded public access to demographical and economic information. Allows users to browse, search, and map data from many Census Bureau sources.

America's health rankings.

[Free to all]

United Health Foundation.

"A call to action for people and their communities."

Bearfacts

[Free to all]

Provides a narrative economic analysis for states, counties and metropolitan statistical areas.

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)

[Free to all]

(US Department of Labor) Access to statistics on consumer spending, price indexes, wages, productivity, safety and health, employment and unemployment, occupations, industries, and business costs.

Canada Health Act

[Free to all]

Delineates the relationship between federal and provinicial authorites in providing health care to Canadians. Links to supporting materials, including annual reports. Insurance statistics at the provincial level are found in Annex A.

Canadian Institute for Health Information

[Free to all]

Statistics on health professionals, health expenditures, and health indicators which includes # of optometrists per population retrievable by province.

Center for Health Information, Statistics, Research, and Evaluation

[Free to all]

Provides information of health status of Massachusetts residents includes births, deaths, newly diagnosed cases of cancer, occupational conditions and illnesses, and health behavior.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

[Free to all]

Develops and applies disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities in the United States and provides access to information and statistics on these programs. Links to the wide array of CDC publications.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

[Free to all]

(Formerly the Health Care Financing Administration) Statistics for health care expenditures and projections that include vision care products, medicare enrollment and utilization, practice expense data files and much more.

Children of Immigrants Data Tool

[Free to all]

The Urban Institute.

Enables user to generate charts on the characteristics of children, age 0 to 17, for the United States and for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Allows for comparison of populations of children defined by the nativity and citizenship of the child or their parents. Data comes from the 2005 and 2006 American Community Survey.

CIA - World Factbook

[Free to all]

Central Intelligence Agency

Factbook provides extensive profiles of a large number of countries. Profiles include demographics, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and any transnational issues.

Comparable health and health system performance indicators for Canada, the provinces and territories, December 2006

[Free to all]

Individual reports on Canada and each of the provinces and territories on 14 indicators in the topics of health status, health outcomes, and quality of services. Quebec data are not shown; however, these counts are included in the national rates.

Country Profiles - BBC News

[Free to all]

"Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions."

County Business Patterns

[Free to all]

US Census Bureau

Database of employment categorized by the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) containing a category for Optometrists Offices (623132). Includes statistics for employment, annual payroll, first quarter payroll, total establishments, and number of establishments by employment size for all states and counties. Multi-year comparisons are available.

County and City Data Book

[Free to all]

US Census Bureau

Access to demographics, housing, manufacturing, vital statistics, crime, income, building permits, farm, wholesale and retail trade, accommodations and food services, banking, federal funds, government programs and finances all in one source.

Current estimates from the National Health Interview Survey, 1996.

[Free to all]

Adams, Patricia F.

Chiefly tables.

Diabetes in America

[Free to all]

National Diabetes Data Group (U.S.)

Directory of America's Hospitals

[Free to all]

American Hospital Association.

"The U.S. News/American Hospital Association National Directory has facts and figures on more than 6,000 hospitals."

EconData.Net

[Free to all]

"EconData.Net is designed to help practitioners, researchers, students, and other data users quickly gain access to relevant state and substate socioeconomic data. The site aims to be a convenient, comprehensive first stop for anyone searching among the vast, disparate array of public and private data sources on the Web."

Eye & Vision Statistics

[Free to all]

Association of Vision Science Librarians (AVSL)

Topics include: General Eye Care; Aging; Chair Time Calculation; Diabetes and Vision; Eyewear Sales; Glaucoma; Eye Injuries; Insertion of Prosthetic Lens ; Macular Degeneration; Melanoma; NEI Grants, Rankings; Ocular Disorders in Women; Visual Impairment; World Blindness

Facts and Figures on Americans with Vision Loss

[Free to all]

American Foundation for the Blind.

Includes various statistics on the blind and visually impaired.

Federal science and engineering support to universities, colleges, and nonprofit institutions.

[Free to all]

National Science Foundation (U.S.).

Fedstats

[Free to all]

Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy

One-stop center for US government statistics includes an A-Z index, search, and ability to profile down to the county with statistics on population and demographics, labor force, business and banking, crimes, education, energy/environment, and a miscellaneous category.

Government Information Online (GIO) : Ask a Librarian

[Free to all]

Committee on Institutional Cooperation, Government Printing Office, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Through Government Information Online, you can ask questions of government information librarians who are experts at finding information from government agencies of all levels (local, state, regional, national, and international) on almost any subject from aardvarks to zygomycosis.

Health behaviors of adults, United States.

[Free to all]

National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)

Library keeps most recent edition only. Current and past editions available online via link above.

Health Canada : Reports & Publications

[Free to all]

Detailed information about all facets of the Canadian health care system.

Health Personnel Trends in Canada, 1993 to 2002

[Free to all]

Contains data on 21 health personnel groups including optometrists.

Health Resources and Services Administration

[Free to all]

(HRSA) Focus is on health workforce, providing primary healthcare to medically underserved groups, to improve services for people living with AIDS, and serve women and children through state programs.

Health status and needs of individuals with mental retardation

[Free to all]

Horwitz, Sarah M.

Includes chapter "Ocular impairments among individuals with mental retardation"

Health, United States.

[Free to all]

National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)

Each issue emphasizes a different health-related topic, sometimes reflected in a distinctive subtitle (e.g. 1998 issue: Health, United States : with socioeconomic status and health chartbook). Online access to Health, United States national health trends back to 1993 -- 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.

Healthy people 2000 review.

[Free to all]

National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)

Reviews all concentrate on a specific disorder or aspect.

HRSA state health workforce profiles

[Free to all]

State University of New York at Albany.

"The State Health Workforce Profiles compile accurate and current data on supply, demand, distribution, education and use of health personnel." Includes data for Optometrists.

Injury and poisoning episodes and conditions :National Health Interview Survey, 1997.

[Free to all]

National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)

"June 2000."

Injury visits to hospital emergency departments :United States, 1992-95.

[Free to all]

Burt, Catharine W.

"January 1998."

Integrating measurements of disability in federal surveys :seminar proceedings

[Free to all]

Sirken, M. G.

"July 2002."

Job Futures Canada

[Free to all]

Job Futures - Provincial perspectives

[Free to all]

Links to Provincial resources.

JSTOR - Mathematics and Statistics Collections

[Off-campus access]

Full-text access to the backfiles (in many cases back to vol. 1) of a number of the core journals in math and statistics. Access to current issues is delayed by 3-5 years depending on the individual title.

Key metrics of optometric practice /

[Free to all]

Management & Business Academy.

Labor Force and Unemployment Data

[Free to all]

Labor market information, including average earnings for optometrists in Massachusetts.

Labour Market Information

[Free to all]

Answer your questions about jobs, skills, and the availability of workers in local areas across Canada.

Living Cities Census Series

[Free to all]

Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, Brookings Institution

Data and rankings for the 100 largest cities in the U.S. on a wide range of indicators.

MassStats

[Free to all]

Thematic maps covering Demographics, Education, Housing, Crime, Politics, Health and Other statistics information from the 2000 US Census. Detailed data, in some cases, down to the city block.

Medicare Chart Book 2005

[Free to all]

"This updated resource features more than 80 charts and tables with detailed information about the Medicare program and the 42 million seniors and younger people with disabilities who rely on the program for health insurance coverage."

MEPS: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

[Free to all]

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Designed to continually provide policymakers, health care administrators, businesses, and others with timely, comprehensive information about health care use and costs in the United States, and to improve the accuracy of their economic projections.

National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (NAEVR).

[Free to all]

"Serving as Friends of the National Eye Institute." Eye Fact Center links to many statistical sites and fact sheets, as well as news on the latest legislation.

National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)

[Free to all]

(CDC) Data on vital events as well as information on health status, lifestyle and exposure to unhealthy influences, the onset and diagnosis of illness and disability, and the use of health care.

National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)

[Free to all]

National Center for Health Statistics.

National Health Statistics Reports.

[Free to all]

National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)

These reports provide annual data summaries, present analyses of health topics, or present new information on methods or measurement issues.

National Highlights 2003 AOA Economic Survey

[Free to all]

American Optometric Association

The 2003 AOA Economic Survey provides estimates for the year 2002 of the total individual net income of ODs , total eye exams and office visits, practice expenses, staffing and other practice statistics.

The National home and hospice care survey ... summary.

[Free to all]

National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)

Library keeps most recent edition only. Current and past editions available online via link above.

National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, ... summary, United States.

[Free to all]

National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)

Library keeps most recent edition only. Current and past editions available online via link above.

National Hospital Discharge Survey.

[Free to all]

National Hospital Discharge Survey (U.S.)

Library keeps most recent edition only. Current and past editions available online via link above.

The National Nursing Home Survey : [report] : summary for the United States.

[Free to all]

National Nursing Home Survey (U.S.)

Library keeps most recent edition only. Current and past editions available online via link above.

NationMaster.com

[Free to all]

Compilation of data from CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD. Enables user to generate maps and graphs based on the data.

Occupational outlook handbook

[Free to all]

United States.

Describes 250 occupations which cover approximately 107 million jobs.

PHPartners - Health Data Tools and Statistics

[Free to all]

Links to dozens of datasets and other statistical resources compiled by the Partners in Information Access for the Public Health Workforce.

POPLINE

[Free to all]

Published and unpublished lterature in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues.

Prevalence and Causes of Visual Impairment and Blindness Among Adults 40 Years and Older in the United States.

[Free to all]

National Eye Institute

Prevalence of visual impairment in the U.S.

[Free to all]

National Eye Institute

Reporting on the study published in JAMA. 2006;295:2158-2163. Presents images, statistics, general resources, and background information relevant to the study.

Prevalence of visual impairment and selected eye diseases among persons aged >50 years with and without diabetes --- United States, 2002

[Free to all]

Regional labor market information

[Free to all]

US Department of Labor

Listing with links for state labor market information. States' sites vary as to what is available.

Report on visual health Central America 2004

[Free to all]

UNESCO Chair in Visual Health and Development.

"English edition, April 2005" - T.p. verso

The silver book : vision loss

[Free to all]

Alliance for Aging Research.

"This volume of the Silver Book was produced in partnership with NAEVR" -- back cover.

Sperling's BestPlaces

[Free to all]

Statistical information relating to quality of life issues for over 3000 cities. Includes comparisons of housing, cost of living, crime, health and climate.

State health facts online

[Free to all]

The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

Latest state-level data on demographics, health, and health policy, including health coverage, access, financing, and state legislation.

State health profiles.

[Free to all]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.).

State Labor Market Information Contact List

[Free to all]

Links to state labor market department webpages.

State occupational projections, long-term

[Free to all]

America's Labor Market Information System (ALMIS)

Long-term projections of occupational employment growth by state, 2004-2014.

State of the Profession 2002

[Free to all]

Edlow, Richard C.

During the past two years, the AOA Committee on Information and Data conducted or otherwise commissioned the following studies: the 2000 AOA Third-Party/Managed Care Survey, the 2001 AOA Economic Survey, the 2001 AOA Scope of Practice Survey, the 2001 AOA Optical Dispensing Survey, the 2001 AOA Optical Laboratory Survey, and the 2001 AOA Public Image Survey. This report on the State of the Profession consists of factual snapshots gleaned from the results of these surveys.

Statistical abstract of the United States

[Free to all]

United States.

Statistics and data (NEI).

[Free to all]

National Eye Institute.

Statistics on vision impairment.

[Free to all]

Lighthouse International

Variety of low vision statistics from a variety of sources listed together by Lighthouse International.

Summary health statistics for U.S. adults : National Health Interview Survey ...

[Free to all]

Pleis, John R.

Library keeps most recent edition only. Current and past editions available online via link above.

Summary health statistics for U.S. children : National Health Interview Survey ...

[Free to all]

National Health Interview Survey (U.S.)

Library keeps most recent edition only. Current and past editions available online via link above.

Summary health statistics for U.S. population : National health interview survey ...

[Free to all]

National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)

Library keeps most recent edition only. Current and past editions available online via link above.

Summary Tables.

[Free to all]

Statistics Canada

Tabular data on many aspects of Canada's economy, people and government.

Surveillance for selected public health indicators affecting older adults, United States

[Free to all]

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)

Cover title.

Surveillance for sensory impairment, activity limitation, and health-related quality of life among older adults, United States, 1993-1997

[Free to all]

Campbell, Vincent A.

Title from title screen (viewed August 31, 2001).

Trends in hospital utilization : United States, 1988-92

[Free to all]

Gillum, B. S. (Brenda S.)

"This report represents statistics on the utilization of non-Federal short stay hospitals based on data collected through the National Hospital Discharge Survey for the years 1988 through 1992."

Trends in vision and hearing among older Americans

[Free to all]

Desai, Mayur.

Title from title screen (viewed August 21, 2001).

U.S. Census Bureau

[Free to all]

Access to wide selection of statistics such as population, housing, education, homeownership, employment, industry.

United Nations Cyberschoolbus

[Free to all]

This site, developed by the United Nations and aimed at teaching K-12 students, contains several databases that contain statistical information on UN member nations and allow a comparison between selected countries.

United States Economy at at Glance

[Free to all]

(US Department of Labor) Summary data - includes statistics for employment and wages by region as well as by industry.

The United States health workforce profile.

[Free to all]

The New York Center for Health Workforce Studies.

Detailed information and statistics regarding health personnel in their respective states. Covers many health professionals, including optometrists.

USEIR Online: United States Eye Injury Registry Online

[Free to all]

USEIR is a federation of individual state eye injury registries, collecting data in a standardized manner and sharing data via a common database. USEIR documents serious eye injuries (injuries judged by the reporting ophthalmologist to have a likelihood of resulting in permanent structural or function damage to the eye and/or orbit). Requires free registration.

The Vision Council.

[Free to all]

To view page of site referring specifically to facts and statistics regarding vision in America, please click on the link provided.The Vision Council's mission is to "create awareness of the value of vision care and to grow the eyewear and vision care market through education, forums and expositions, industry statistics and data, technical standards, alliances and advocacy." It is a membership-based organization.

Vision problems action plan: a national public health strategy

[Free to all]

Prevent Blindness America

Define strategic vision health plan with three priority areas: prevention/public health, access to care and rehabilitation, research.

Vision problems in the U.S. :prevalence of adult vision impairment and age-related eye disease in America

[Free to all]

Prevent Blindness America.

Vision Statistics.

[Free to all]

Includes statistics on: contact lenses and eyeglasses; eye problems, injuries and diseases; optical professionals; refractive surgery; and sales figures for the ophthalmic industry.

Visual impairment and eye care among older adults --- five states, 2005.

[Free to all]

Originally published in CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): (December 15, 2006 /55(49);1321-1325).

Visual impairment and use of eye-care services and protective eyewear among children --- United States, 2002

[Free to all]

CDC analyzed data from the 2002 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to provide baseline data for three of the Healthy People 2010 objectives. This report summarizes these baselines.

Vital and health statistics.

[Free to all]

National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)

CONTENTS: Series 1: Programs and collection procedures -- Series 2: Data evaluation and methods research -- Series 3: Analytical studies --Series 4: Documents and committee reports -- Series 10: Data from the National Health Interview Survey -- Series 11: Data from the National Health Examination Survey and the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey -- Series 13: Data on health resources utilization -- Series 14: Data on health resources --Series 15: Data from special surveys -- Series 20: Data on mortality -- Series 21: Data on natality, marriage, and divorce -- Series 23: Data from the National Survey of Family Growth. Cf. Series 11, no. 229 (Dec. 1982), p. [4] of cover.

WHOSIS

[Free to all]

WHO Statistical Information System International health and health-related statistics.

Women : work and health.

[Free to all]

Wagener, Diane K.

"By Diane K. Wagener ... [et al.]"--P. 1.