Locating the Right Reference Tools: Statistical Sources

Locating the Right Reference Tools: Statistical Sources

Looking for facts and figures? These are the tools to use.

Statistics can be found in resources devoted only to them, within encyclopedia articles, on Web sites published by government, and as support for other materials in books. The date of the statistics is important when you are using the statistics to support a point you are trying to make. Statistics can also allow you to make comparisons between times and give you an idea of what it was like to live in another era. Statistics are available for just about anything about which data can be collected.

Use the index and table of contents in books of statistics to guide you to the material you need.