Statistical information
Finding Journal Articles
Databases enable you to search for articles on a particular topic:
- Academic Search Complete and Business Source Premier Ebscohost databases that index multidisciplinary and business journals. Statistical data is included in many journal articles.
- Business & Company ASAP and Expanded Academic ASAP Gale databases that index business and multidisciplinary journals. Statistical data is included in many journal articles.
- Passport GMID (Euromonitor) An integrated database providing key business intelligence on countries, markets and companies. It provides historical statistics and forecasts, analysis of consumers' lifestyles, information sources, brand and company information, plus full-text market analysis.
- Factiva Full text from Australian business newspapers and journals.
- IBIS Australian Industry Reports - 50 reports available. Requested reports cannot be opened.
- OECD iLibrary Provides full text access to subscribed titles: Main economic indicators, Monthly statistics of international trade, OECD economic surveys, Quarterly national accounts, Science & Technology database and the OECD factbook. Some free content is also available.
- TVNews on Informit Provides online access to news, current affairs and selected documentary programs that have been broadcast on Australian television such as Four Corners, Catalyst and Cutting Edge.
Here's a short Media Watch story about how statistics were misused in a Herald Sun article about crime committed by migrants, Crime stats, 4 min.
Tip: If full text is not provided use the Full Text? button
to link to the full text in other databases (if available).
Ebooks
- STATSnetBASE A collection of more than 150 ebooks about statistics published by CRC Press. Selected titles:
- The Cambridge dictionary of statistics
- A dictionary of statistics
- Encyclopedia of social measurement
- Encyclopedia of statistics in behavioral science
- Google analytics 2.0
- See the ebooks guide for more ebook databases.
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
- Australian Bureau of Statistics The ABS website provides access to the free statistics compiled by the ABS. A couple of easy ways to access data are:
- Topics @ a Glance Find statistics by topic
- Yearbooks Annual publications providing basic statistics and different feature articles. In addition to Year Book Australia, similar publications are available for each state and territory.
- Spotlight A fun, interactive animation that explains what census data can tell us about ourselves and Australia.
Education
- Higher education publications and resources Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations data including Students: selected higher education statistics and Higher education report.
Family, Health and Welfare Statistics
- Australian Criminal Justice Statistics
- Family facts and figures Australian Institute of Family Studies
- The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
- Australia’s Health AIHW
- Australia’s Welfare AIHW
- Victoria. Department of Sustainability and Environment
Political Statistics
Opinion Polls
- ANU Poll Quarterly surveys of Australian public opinion, benchmarked against international opinion. Recent topics: the environment, higher education and governance.
- Roy Morgan Morgan Polls
Financial Statistics
- Australian Stock Exchange
- AUSTRADE
- Australian Securities and Investments Commission
- Tourism Research Australia
- Reserve Bank of Australia
Television, Radio and Internet Ratings
- Radio ratings Nielsen ratings for Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. Search the website for the latest figures.
- Roy Morgan Television ratings
Links to other Australian Statistics
- Australian Statistics on the Internet - National Library of Australia
- Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
- Statistical Science Web
- Parliamentary Library Links to web pages providing statistical data on range of topics including education, employment, environment, finance, interest rates, etc
International Statistics
- Eurostat European statistics
- A guide to good survey design (2nd ed, 1995) Statistics NZ
- OECD Statistics - click on the link to the Statistics Portal
- Penn World Data (PWD) (1950 - 2004)
- Population index on the Web
- Population Reference Bureau
- Intute: Statistics and Data
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics
- US Census Bureau Statistical tables of demographic and socioeconomic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Statistics
Online Tutorials
Learn how to improve your research skills and use library services effectively - watch our short online tutorials!
- Searching for an article in an Ebscohost database: basic searching (2min 38)
- How to find the readings on your reading list. Part 1: the reading list (1min 21)
- How to find the readings on your reading list. Part 2: finding an article (1min 36)
- How do I place a hold? (1min 52)
- How do I renew a loan? (1min 34)
- Booking a computer or room at Hawthorn or Prahran (2min 21)