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Ready Reference: Statistics and Demographics

Statistics and Demographics

CIA World Factbook --  from the US Central intelligence agency, The World Factbook "... provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities."

Data.gov -- from the U.S. General Services Administration, Technology Transformation Service, Data.gov is the "...home of the U.S.Government's Open data..."

New Jersey Department of Education Data and Reports -- categories include School and Student Information, Accountability and Performance Data, Finance and Budget Data, Staff Data, School Climate Data, Research, Data Requests and Collections. 

United States Census Data --  explore Census Bureau data concerning people and the economy. Categories include population, income, educational attainment, employment status, housing.

Vital Statistics: New Jersey -- from the State of New Jersey, Department of Health. Please note, New Jersey law protects and restricts the release of vital records. Vital records are not public records and cannot be searched online. Full details on how to obtain vital records are explained on the Web page.

The vital records include:

  • Birth records starting at 1923
  • Marriage records starting at 1941
  • Death records starting at 1941
  • Domestic partnership records starting at 2004
  • Civil union records starting at 2007
  • Adoptions – foreign and domestic
  • Certificate of Birth Resulting in Stillbirth data starting at 1969

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