Disability.gov: Connecting the Disability Community to Information & Opportunities

 

Disability.gov: Connecting the Disability Community to Information & Opportunities

 

What Does Disability.gov Do?

Disability.gov is the federal government website for comprehensive information on disability programs and services in communities nationwide. The site links to more than 14,000 resources from federal, state and local government agencies; academic institutions; and nonprofit organizations. You can find answers to questions about everything from Social Security to employment to affordable and accessible housing.

New information is added daily across 10 main subject areas – Benefits, Civil Rights, Community Life, Education, Emergency Preparedness, Employment, Health, Housing, Technology and Transportation.

Disability.gov is a web portal, which means every time you select a resource, you will be directed to another website. A PDF version of our fact sheet is available in the Newsroom.

How Do I Find Resources?

There are several ways to search for information on Disability.gov. Visit the How to Use this Site section of Disability.gov to watch videos about finding your way around the site or read our text-only guide.

Who Visits Disability.gov?

Many people visit Disability.gov, including individuals with disabilities, their families, Veterans, caregivers, employers, educators and others. Our purpose is to connect people of all abilities to the resources they need to fully participate in their communities.

Who "Owns" the Site?

Disability.gov is managed by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), in collaboration with 21 federal agency partners. For a detailed list, please visit our Partners page.

ThomasNet® - Product Sourcing and Supplier Discovery Platform

 

ThomasNet® - Product Sourcing and Supplier Discovery Platform

 

“usually don’t add items that I know about and aren’t likely to forget, but the product news and guides areas ore new to me having not visited the site recently ….” HSM

 

 

ThomasNet, powered by Thomas Register® and Thomas Regional®, is an industrial search engine that provides one source for finding the exact product, service, or supplier –quickly and efficiently. ThomasNet provides direct access to the detailed information needed to make a purchasing or specifying decision, including line-item product details, CAD drawings, and more.

ThomasNet is brought to you by Thomas Industrial Network^sm, a wholly owned subsidiary of Thomas Publishing Company. Thomas has been connecting industrial buyers and suppliers for over 100 years

 

ThomasNet Product News Room provides current, reliable industrial news articles which are delivered on a timely basis covering the whole range of products from adhesives through waste handling equipment. This premier news source serves the new product information needs of the industrial marketplace through websites, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, e-marketplaces and online publications.

 

ThomasNet Need-To-Know Guides

• Maybe you're just looking for some ground-level information. Maybe you need to make an informed sourcing decision. Whatever the reason, whatever you're looking for, these primers, briefs, articles and guides serve as your gateway to learning more. Each resource category offers a wealth of information aimed at providing you with the background and facts you need. Whether you're trying to track down the basics on a certain manufacturing process or deciding between various equipment vendors, ThomasNet's Need-to-Know Guides connects you to key industry info.

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)

In a nutshell

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) supports research into our world's frozen realms: the snow, ice, glaciers, frozen ground, and climate interactions that make up Earth's cryosphere.

NSIDC manages and distributes scientific data, creates tools for data access, supports data users, performs scientific research, and educates the public about the cryosphere.

NSIDC distributes more than 500 cryospheric data sets for researchers, from both satellite and ground observations. See Data at NSIDC to browse our holdings, get information, and download or order data sets.

 

Also a cool photo gallery -- http://nsidc.org/gallery/coppermine/displayimage.php?album=26&pos=80

eXtension - Objective. Research-based. Credible.

 

eXtension - Objective. Research-based. Credible.

 

eXtension is an interactive learning environment delivering the best, most researched knowledge from the smartest land-grant university minds across America. eXtension connects knowledge consumers with knowledge providers - experts who know their subject matter inside out.

eXtension offers:

• Credible expertise
• Reliable answers based upon sound research
• Connections to the best minds in American universities
• Creative solutions to today's complex challenges
• Customized answers to your specific needs
• Trustworthy, field-tested data
• Dynamic, relevant and timely answers

eXtension is unlike any other search engine or information-based website. It's a space where university content providers can gather and produce new educational and information resources on wide-ranging topics. Because it's available to students, researchers, clinicians, professors, as well as the general public, at any time from any Internet connection, eXtension helps solve real-life problems in real time.

eXtension Foundation: The eXtension Foundation is a non-profit entity that exists to support the work of eXtension. Learn more about how you can support or sponsor this work at our eXtension Foundation.

MetroTrends | Urban Institute's report card on social and economic trends in urban America

 

Welcome to MetroTrends—
The Urban Institute's report card and toolkit for researchers, students, journalists, elected officials and the public on the state of metropolitan economies. Here you'll find up-to-date charts and figures, expert commentaries and relevant, downloadable datasets. learn more

The MetroTrends Blog has launched and brings you seasoned voices on the changes and challenges facing metropolitan America.

MetroTrends | Urban Institute's report card on social and economic trends in urban America

Measure of America: American Human Development Project

 

Measure of America: American Human Development Project

The American Human Development Project provides easy-to-use yet methodologically sound tools for understanding the distribution of well-being and opportunity in America and stimulating fact-based dialogue about issues we all care about: health, education, and living standards.

The hallmark of this work is the American Human Development Index, an alternative to GDP and other money metrics that tells the story of how ordinary Americans are faring and empowers communities with a tool to track progress over time. The Index is comprised of health, education, and income indicators and allows for well-being rankings of the 50 states, 435 congressional districts, county groups within states, women and men, and racial and ethnic groups.

Through national and state reports, thematic briefs, and the project’s interactive website, the American Human Development Project aims to breathe life into numbers, using data to create compelling narratives that foster greater understanding of our shared challenges and greater support for people-centered policies. The Project was founded in 2006, and became an initiative of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in 2008.

The Project is made possible through the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation‘s matching grant, which will match every dollar you donate–effectively doubling your contribution. Click on this secure link to donate today (please note this will direct you to the SSRC website).

 

The maps are the great interactive part….

http://www.measureofamerica.org/maps/

The Measure of America

How is opportunity distributed in America? Are we falling behind other affluent democracies? Which groups are surging ahead and which face the greatest risks? Which congressional districts enjoy the highest—and lowest—levels of well-being?

CDC - Injury - WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System)

 

Welcome to WISQARS^TM

WISQARS^TM (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) is an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data. Learn more about WISQARS^TM >>

CDC - Injury - WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System)

CDC’s WISQARS™ (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) is an interactive, online database that provides fatal and nonfatal injury, violent death, and cost of injury data from a variety of trusted sources. Researchers, the media, public health professionals, and the public can use WISQARS™ data to learn more about the public health and economic burden associated with unintentional and violence-related injury in the United States.

Users can search, sort, and view the injury data and create reports, charts, and maps based on the following:

• Intent of injury (unintentional injury, violence-related, homicide/assault, legal intervention, suicide/intentional self-harm)
• Mechanism (cause) of injury (e.g., fall, fire, firearm, motor vehicle crash, poisoning, suffocation)
• Body region (e.g., traumatic brain injury, spinal cord, torso, upper and lower extremities)
• Nature (type) of injury (e.g., fracture, dislocation, internal injury, open wound, amputation, and burn)
• Geographic location (national, regional, state) where the injury occurred
• Sex, race/ethnicity, and age of the injured person

USA Counties

 

USA Counties features over 6,800 data items for the United States, States and counties from a variety of sources. Files include data published for 2009 estimates and many items from the 2000 Census of Population and Housing, the 1990 census, the 1980 census and the 2002, 1997, 1992, 1987, 1982 and 1977 economic censuses.

Information in USA Counties is derived from the following general topics: age, agriculture, ancestry, banking, building permits, business patterns, crime, earnings, education, elections, employment, government, health, households, housing, income, labor force, manufactures, population, poverty, retail trade, social programs, veterans, vital statistics, water use, and wholesale trade.

Files contain a collection of data from the U. S. Census Bureau and other Federal agencies, such as the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Social Security Administration.

USA Counties

LABORSTA Internet (E)

LABORSTA Internet (E)

Welcome to LABORSTA Internet!

View and download data and metadata for over 200 countries or territories from LABORSTA, an International Labour Office database on labour statistics operated by the ILO Department of Statistics

What's new ?

• Short term indicators of the labour market
• Direct access to all country profiles (XLS PDF)
• Direct access to all selected series by country (XLS PDF)

• Rural Labour Statistics Dataset (CSV)
• Syntopicon of Rural Labour Statistics (PDF)
• Rural Analytical Results (PDF)
• Labour Statistics for Rural Development (PDF)

Statistics by topic

[ By country - By publication ]

Total and Economically Active Population

• Main statistics (annual): economically active population by age group, by level of education and age group, by industry and status in employment, by occupation and status in employment, by industry and by occupation
• Economically Active Population Estimates and Projections 1980-2020 (EAPEP)

Employment

• Main statistics (annual): employment general level, by economic activity, by occupation, by status in employment - paid employment by economic activity, in manufacturing
• Main statistics (monthly): employment general level - paid-employment in non-agricultural activities, in manufacturing
• Employment for detailed occupational groups by sex (SEGREGAT)
• ILO-Comparable Estimates - adjusted annual average employment and unemployment estimates (ILOCE)
• Public sector employment
• Distribution of the employed population by hours of work

Unemployment

• Main statistics (annual): unemployment general level, by age group, by level of education, by economic activity, by occupation
• Main statistics (monthly): unemployment general level
• ILO-Comparable Estimates - Adjusted annual average employment and unemployment estimates (ILOCE)

Hours of Work

• Main statistics (annual): hours of work by economic activity, in manufacturing
• Main statistics (monthly): hours of work per week in non-agricultural activities, in manufacturing
• Wages and hours of work in 159 occupations (ILO October Inquiry)
• Distribution of the employed population by hours of work

Wages

• Main statistics (annual): wages by economic activity, in manufacturing
• Main statistics (monthly): wages in non-agricultural activities, in manufacturing
• Wages and hours of work in 159 occupations (ILO October Inquiry)

Labour Cost

• Main statistics (annual): labour cost in manufacturing

Consumer Price Indices

• Main statistics (annual): general indices, general indices excluding housing, food indices, electricity, gas and other fuels indices, clothing indices, rent indices
• Main statistics (monthly): general indices, food indices
• Retail prices of 93 food items (ILO October Inquiry)

Occupational Injuries

• Main statistics (annual): cases of injury with lost workdays, rates of occupational injuries, days lost by economic activity

Strikes and Lockouts

• Main statistics (annual): strikes and lockouts, workers involved, days not worked, rates of days not worked by economic activity

Household Income and Expenditure

• Statistics (HIES)

International Labour Migration

• Statistics

Metadata

• Definitions
• Classifications: description of the international classifications used
• Sources and Methods, Labour Statistics: methodological descriptions of national statistics by source

LABORSTA Internet for ILO Offices

• Specific data and metadata accesses by Regional and Sub-Regional ILO Offices

LABORSTA Internet (E)

City & County Information, Town & Community Information - ePodunk

 

City & County Information, Town & Community Information - ePodunk

ePodunk provides in-depth information about more than 46,000 communities around the country, from Manhattan to Los Angeles, Pottstown to Podunk. Our listings also include geocoded information about thousands of parks, museums, historic sites, colleges, schools and other places across America.

ePodunk was launched in 1999 in Ithaca, NY, just east of the real Podunk, a community so small it doesn't appear on the U.S. Census Bureau's list of places. ePodunk was founded by journalists with years of experience in newspapers, online publishing and demographics.

Los Angeles-based Internet Brands acquired ePodunk in July of 2007. Internet Brands' sites deliver superior content, consumer insight and have received dozens of "best-in-class" awards.

Internet Brands’ home category websites span the lifecycle of home-related activities including housing selection, financing, purchasing, leasing and home improvement. With the acquisition of ePodunk, Internet Brands also provides valuable, traditionally hard-to-find information about individual neighborhoods to help people choose the best community for a vacation or a relocation.

American Hospital Directory - information about hospitals from public and private data sources including MedPAR, OPPS, hospital cost reports, and other CMS files.

http://ahd.com/

The American Hospital Directory® provides data and statistics about more than 6,000 hospitals nationwide.

AHD.com® hospital information includes both public and private sources such as Medicare claims data, hospital cost reports, and commercial licensors.

AHD® is not affiliated with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and is not a source for AHA Data.  Our data are evidence-based and derived from the most authoritative sources.

Free hospital profiles

Use versatile search tools to explore our database of hospital information.  Create a list or a map of hospitals that match your interests.  View free hospital profiles that include key characteristics, services provided, utilization statistics, accreditation status, financial information, and more.  No registration is required. 

Free state & national stats

View key statistics summarized by hospital, state, and the nation.  Statistics include bed size, discharges, patient days, and gross patient revenue. 

American Hospital Directory - information about hospitals from public and private data sources including MedPAR, OPPS, hospital cost reports, and other CMS files.

Data | The World Bank

http://data.worldbank.org/

 

The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sets.

 

World Development Indicators 2011 database and publication available now

The publication is the 15th edition of WDI and the database now contains updated data through 2009 or 2010 for many indicators.

 

 

Data | The World Bank

American Community Survey

 

American Community Survey

The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides data every year -- giving communities the current information they need to plan investments and services. Information from the survey generates data that help determine how more than $400 billion in federal and state funds are distributed each year.

To help communities, state governments, and federal programs, we ask about:

• age
• sex
• race
• family and relationships

• income and benefits
• health insurance
• education
• veteran status

• disabilities
• where you work and how you get there
• where you live and how much you pay for some essentials

All this detail is combined into statistics that are used to help decide everything from school lunch programs to new hospitals.

Statistical Database -- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

http://w3.unece.org/pxweb/Dialog/

UNECE STATISTICAL DATABASE

Comparable data for Europe, North America and Central Asia

Key indicators in maps

Country Overviews

• UNECE Member Countries in Figures

Economic Statistics

• Overview Tables
• National Accounts
• Labour Force & Wages
• Price Indices
• Industrial Production
• External Economic Relations

Forestry Statistics

• Forest Resources
• Forest Health and Vitality
• Productive Functions
• Biological Diversity
• Protective Functions
• Socio-economic Functions

Gender Statistics

• Gender Country Profiles
• Population
• Fertility, families and households
• Work and the economy
• Education
• Public life and decision making
• Health and mortality
• Crime and violence
• Science and ICT
• Work-life balance

Transport Statistics

• Road Traffic Accidents
• Road Traffic
• Road Vehicle Fleet
• Railway Traffic
• Railway Vehicles
• Inland Waterway Traffic
• Inland Waterway Vessels
• Oil Pipeline Transport
• Transport Infrastructure
• Railway Employment

Statistical Database -- United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Data | The World Bank

http://data.worldbank.org/

The World Bank Open Data

The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sets.

Find an indicator

Learn more about data sets

Browse data

• By CountryView profiles for over 200 countries and economies
• By TopicSee key indicators for a variety of topics
• IndicatorsView data for over 1,200 indicators
• Use our DataLearn how to use World bank's data

Data | The World Bank

CollegeInsight

Home | CollegeInsight

College InSight, an initiative of the Institute for College Access & Success, makes data on college affordability, diversity, and student success easy to find, compare, and analyze. College InSight is the successor to EconomicDiversity.org and provides data for almost 5,000 U.S. colleges and universities. In addition to college-level data, it features totals and averages for states, sectors, and other groupings of colleges. College InSight is both an easy-to-use consumer resource and a sophisticated research tool designed to help shed light on important trends and issues.

There are three interconnected ways to tap into College InSight’s wide range of data:

1. Spotlight - Start by selecting a college, state, or type of school to see a snapshot of key data and a relevant comparison.

2. Topics - Start with a topic, then dig deeper to see how specific colleges, states, or school types compare.

3. Explore All Data - Build your own table with any combination of colleges, variables, or years in the College InSight database.

Home | CollegeInsight

Data.gov

Data.gov 

Welcome to Data.gov

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Although the initial launch of Data.gov provides a limited portion of the rich variety of Federal datasets presently available, we invite you to actively participate in shaping the future of Data.gov by suggesting additional datasets and site enhancements to provide seamless access and use of your Federal data. Visit today with us, but come back often. With your help, Data.gov will continue to grow and change in the weeks, months, and years ahead.

How to use Data.gov

Data.gov includes searchable data catalogs providing access to data in three ways: through the "raw" data catalog, the tool catalog and the geodata catalog. Please note that by accessing datasets or tools offered on Data.gov, you agree to the Data Policy, which you should read before accessing any dataset or tool. If there are additional datasets that you would like to see included on this site, please suggest more datasets here. For more information on how to use Data.gov, view our tutorial.

Data.gov

UNdata

 UNdata

UNdata - a data access system to UN databases
The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has launched a new internet-based data service for the global user community. It brings UN statistical databases within easy reach of users through a single entry point (http://data.un.org/) from which users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN System.
On the occasion of the launch of this service, DESA Under-Secretary-General Sha Zukang stated:

"The UN System has accumulated over the past 60 years an impressive amount of information. UNdata, developed by the Statistics Division of DESA, is a new powerful tool, which will bring this unique and authoritative set of data not only to the desks of decision-makers and analysts, but also to journalists, to students and to all citizens of the world."

Since its foundation, the United Nations System has been collecting statistical information from Member States on a variety of topics. The information thus collected constitutes a considerable information asset of the organization. However, since these statistical data are often stored in proprietary databases - each with unique dissemination and access policies - as a result, users are often unaware of the full array of statistical information that the UN System has in its data libraries. The current arrangement also means that users are required to move from one database to another to access different types of information. UNdata addresses this problem by pooling major UN databases and those of several international organizations into a single internet environment. The innovative design allows users to access a large number of UN databases either by browsing the data series or through a keyword search.
Useful features like Country Profiles, Advanced Search and Glossaries are also provided to aid research. The numerous databases, tables and glossaries containing over 55 million data points cover a wide range of themes including Agriculture, Education, Employment, Energy, Environment, Health, HIV/AIDS, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Refugees, Tourism, Trade, as well as the Millennium Development Goals indicators. Whilst this initial version of UNdata is fully equipped with all the functionalities for data access, the development team is continuously adding new databases and features to further enhance the usefulness to users. When fully developed, UNdata will have a comprehensive array of international and national databases providing the world instant access to a wealth of statistical information.
UNdata is the brainchild of UNSD, the statistical arm of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the coordinator of statistical activities throughout the UN System. UNSD's core mission is to advance the development of the global statistical system and promote the dissemination of statistical information. This database service is part of a project launched by UNSD in 2005, called "Statistics as a Public Good", whose objectives are to provide free access to global statistics, to educate users about the importance of statistics for evidence-based policy and decision-making and to assist National Statistical Offices of Member Countries to strengthen their data dissemination capabilities. The project is implemented in partnership with Statistics Sweden and the Gapminder Foundation with partial financial support from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).

 

UNdata