Library Guides: Social and public policy: Statistics

Australian statistical sources

Australian Bureau of Statistics
Australia's national statistics body. Contains statistics on Australian people, economy, industry, environment and regional areas.
Census (Australian Bureau of Statistics)
Contains data and table builder for the latest Census.
Queensland Government Statistician's Office
The Queensland statistician collects statistics on Queensland's population, economy and society.
Facts and Figures (Australian Institute of Family Studies)
Contains statistics relating to Australian families including marriage, cohabitation, divorce and child protection.
Data (Institute of Health and Welfare)
Contains statistics on the health and welfare of Australians. Can locate statistics by subject.
Statistics (Australian Institute of Criminology)
Statistics on drug use, homicides, deaths in custody and identity crime and misuse in Australia.

OECD iLibrary statistics
Online statistics portal of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Provides access to OECD statistics via databases, key tables and books for users to search for and extract data from across OECD's many databases
UNdata
Online statistics portal of the United Nations. Includes selected statistics for over 200 countries and areas of the world. Subjects covered include demographic and social statistics, national accounts,finance, labour force, wages and prices, agriculture, industry, transport and communications, energy, environment, science and technology, international merchandise trade and tourism.
World Bank data
Provides access to the World Development Indicators dataset plus additional datasets containing more than 7,000 additional indicators. Subjects covered include social, economic, financial, natural resources and environment.

Statistical Yearbook of the United Nations.
Covers demographic and social statistics, national accounts, finance, labour force, wages and prices, agriculture, industry, transport and communications, energy, environment, science and technology, international merchandise trade and tourism.