Primary Sources

For any researcher, her work is only as good as the resources she uses. In the social sciences, primary sources are  numerical data sets that are used to analyze relationships between people, events, and their environment. To that end, the majority of works cited by demographers comes from U.S. and other federal and international sources.

Below is a list of the most frequently cited sources.

U.S. Department of Commerce
    Census Bureau
        Economy
        Education
        Population
    American Community Survey
    Current Population Survey

U.S. Department of Education
    Institute of Education Sciences
    National Center for Education Statistics
    The Nation's Report Card (NAEP)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
    Centers for Disease and Control Prevention
    National Center for Health Statistics  

U.S. Department of Labor
    Bureau of Labor Statistics
        Demographic data

U.S. Department of Agriculture
    Research and Science
    Economic Research Service     

World Fact Book (CIA)

Data.gov

Pew Research Center
    Social and Demographic Trends

Kids Count, Annual Report (2014)

Center for American Progress
    Education
    Labor and Work

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
    Education

World of Statistics

World Future Society