LibGuides: CSUS 802 Foundations of Interdisciplinary Research: Data and Statistics

Data and Statistics

Census of Agriculture - Current
Census of Agriculture - Historical Reports, USDA Ag Census website
The 1840 Census was the first to include statistics on agriculture. Since then, each subsequent census has continued to gauge the overall picture of U.S. agriculture. Many of these are available on-line through the U.S. Census Bureau website or here as PDFs. [Site covers 1840-1950, with links to the 1992, 1997, 2002 and 2007 reports.]

OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. The theme: Agriculture and Food identifies the publications in these subject areas.
Former platform called SourceOECD.
FAOSTAT This link opens in a new window
FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual database currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics in the following areas: Production, Trade, Food Balance Sheets, Food Aid Shipments, Fertilizer and Pesticides, Land Use and Irrigation, Forest Products, Fishery Products, Population, Agricultural Machinery.

Foreign Agriculture Service (USDA)
International agricultural market, production and trade data and reports. See also the Global Agricultural Trade System. GATS includes international agricultural, fish, forest and textile products trade statistics dating from the inception of the Harmonized coding system in 1989 to present.
Michigan Agricultural Statistics
USDA's NASS Michigan Field Office is operated in cooperation with the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD).

UN Comtrade This link opens in a new window
A searchable database of import and export data from over 130 countries that provide the United Nations Statistics Division with their annual international trade statistics, detailed by commodity and partner country. For many countries the data coverage starts as far back as 1962 and goes up to the most recent completed year.

MSU Data & Statistics Research Guide: Agriculture
Compiled by Data Services Librarian Hailey Mooney.

World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and Emerging Trends

Statistics available online from 2000-2008. Pdf for 2009 - click here (307 pages).

Article of note: Paull, John and Benjamin Hennig. A World Map of Organic Agriculture. European Journal of Social Sciences, 24.3 (2011). pp. 360-369 http://www.eurojournals.com/EJSS_24_3_05.pdf

For additional assistance with conducting statistical research, please consult the research guide "How to Find Statistics:Search strategies for statistical information and key resources" by Hailey Mooney, Data Services Librarian.

Further assistance

Local information and statistics
This is a link to the guides of Julia Frankowsky, Gov Docs Librarian. She has many guides on finding federal, state, and local statistics and information. Please feel free to contact her for specific questions.
Mapping and Urban planning
This link goes to the guides of Amanda Tichner who is the librarian for cartography/GIS and urban planning. Her guides are very helpful and she's willing to help with specific projects.

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CSUS 802 Foundations of Interdisciplinary Research: Data and Statistics

Data and Statistics

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