SW 505-50 Social Welfare Policies & Services

The Center for Health Statistics & Informatics (CHS) is a program in the Office of Population Health. CHS is responsible for compiling and releasing statistical information on the health of New Jersey residents. CHS publishes official reports on births, deaths, chronic illnesses, injuries, and behavioral risk factors, among other types of information.

NJSHAD contains reports on over 200 public health status indicators containing graphs, data tables, maps, and explanatory information. Community Profiles display indicator report data by county or major racial/ethnic group. Provides dataset queries that allow users to create customized graphs, maps, and tables of state, county, and municipality-level data from public health datasets.

Dept of Child and Families statistics and reports on child welfare.

Here you can explore hundreds of spatial datasets across the state.

Includes the NJ Data Dashboard Archive, Student Unit Record (SURE), and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data system.

Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, OpenSecrets is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy.

NJSDC is a cooperative project of the state & the Census Bureau. It consists of a network of over 110 state, county, regional, and local agencies. A variety of statistical reports from State and Federal agencies may be accessed through the NJSDC network. Data from the state and sub-state demographic and economic data prepared by the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development are also available through the NJSDC.

Allows users to track state government spending and to look up payroll data on state government employees.

Collects high-quality hydrologic data and conducting unbiased water-science research to address the water-resource priorities of the Nation, global trends and support statewide water-resource infrastructure and management needs.

Access data tables and visualizations about all of New Jersey's municipalities, counties, and districts.

The School Performance Reports reflect the New Jersey Department of Education's commitment to providing parents, students and school communities with a large variety of information about each school and district. These reports can be used as a tool to help evaluate whether all students have equitable access to high quality education.

This report describes BJS's most recent data on human trafficking. It details ongoing and completed efforts to measure and analyze the nationwide incidence of human trafficking, to describe characteristics of human trafficking victims and offenders, and to describe criminal justice responses to human trafficking offenses.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures labor market activity, working conditions, price changes, and productivity in the U.S. economy to support public and private decision making.

The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), part of the Department of Transportation (DOT) is the preeminent source of statistics on commercial aviation, multimodal freight activity, and transportation economics, and provides context to decision makers and the public for understanding statistics on transportation.

The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

The European Union Fundamental Rights Information System EFRIS is a Human Rights Gateway, bringing together data and information from existing human rights databases, and enables viewing and analysis of relevant assessments of fundamental rights in the EU.

The House Ways and Means Committee Green Book provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty and taxation. It has become a standard reference work for those interested in the direction of social policy in the United States.

Healthy People 2030 sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade. Healthy People 2030 includes 358 core — or measurable — objectives as well as developmental and research objectives.

ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

PRB promotes and supports evidence-based policies, practices, and decision-making to improve the health and well-being of people throughout the world. Includes data indicators for the United States and World.

RAND is committed to critical issues of particular relevance to the public policy debate. Here you can browse work aggregated by Research Area from across a diverse organization composed of nearly 100 active projects, programs, and centers.

States Perform provides users with access to interactive, customizable and up-to-date comparative performance measurement data for 50 states in six key areas: fiscal and economic, public safety and justice, energy and environment, transportation, health and human services, and education.

Access demographic, economic and population data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Explore census data with visualizations and view tutorials.

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the official and trusted source of internationally-comparable data on education, science, culture and communication. As the official statistical agency of UNESCO, the UIS produces a wide range of indicators in UNESCO’s fields of action by working with national statistical offices, line ministries and other statistical organizations.

Includes datasets in economics, demographics, environments, gender, homicide, human development, marriage and more.

Search all Federal Government agencies that report data and statistics in one search tool.

World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's premier compilation of cross-country comparable data on development. The World Development Indicators is a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty.