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you will find historical as well as recent information on earnings,
employment, prices, productivity, and more.Health statistics
National Center for Health Statistics, or NCHS, Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/. This searchable website
offers health statistics of all kinds, from the U.S. fetal mortality rate
to the number of U.S. outpatient surgeries and much more. It also
provides information about various NCHS initiatives, including sur-
veys and research.
National Center for Health Statistics: Injury Data and Resources. www
.cdc.gov/nchs/injury.htm. This is another component of the website
listed above that supplies “injury morbidity and mortality data and
statistics available from the National Center for Health Statistics.”
Figures on occupational and accidental injuries as well as deaths
from those injuries are included.
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. http://www.cancer
.gov/statistics/. The National Institutes of Health maintains SEER
(Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results), a searchable data-
base offering “information on cancer incidence and survival in the
United States.”
World Health Report, United Nations World Health Organization. www
.who.int/whr/. The UN World Health Organization’s annual report
includes health statistics for countries around the globe. Each year’s
report focuses on a particular subject with relevant statistics. The
report is also available in print.ratings and rankings
America’s Top-Rated Cities: A Statistical Handbook. Four volumes, each
devoted to a region of the United States (southern, western, central,
eastern), provide a wealth of statistical data for the cities so rated.
Entries range in length from ten to twenty pages and include a vari-
ety of facts and figures, including cost of living, population, andhttp://www.ebook3000.com