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6:14 am
March 3, 2012
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20s Finances
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Hey all,
One thing I have been lacking is including statistics in my posts. I'd like to start to include interesting statistics on various topics. Is there a reliable statistic website that I can use?
When you use stats, where do you get them from? Do you just google the topic and some variation of statistic? Or is there a go-to place.
Thanks!
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7:50 am
March 3, 2012
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Edward Antrobus
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A couple of times, I've done my own research, asking a response to my twitter & facebook followers. This does, however, have a limited reach. I've tried using google as well, although I often don't get a result. Usually, I'm looking for a particular statistic instead of just general numbers on a topic.
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8:52 pm
March 3, 2012
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Poor Student
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In Canada we have a site called StatsCan, which collects stats from censuses and other sources. Quickly searching showed me that the US has this site: http://www.usa.gov/Topics/Refe…..Data.shtml
I usually look up stats myself, or only include them in writing if I recently came across it and found it interesting so I wrote on a topic pertaining to it. Hope this helps.
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8:16 am
March 4, 2012
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Van Beek
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I just Google for it, using a few different related searches to try to find the most useful statistic.
It helps when you know exactly what stat you are looking for.
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2:10 pm
March 4, 2012
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Hank Coleman
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Just Google and the carefully looking at the source.
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2:17 pm
March 4, 2012
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Funancials
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http://www.bls.gov is my go-to resource. But then again, it is run by our government so there's probably something better.
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2:29 pm
March 4, 2012
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Hunter @financiallyc
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NationMaster.com is decent. Some categories are a little out of date but it offers a diverse range of categories both within country and internationally. It's fairly simple to find what you need and create charts, etc. Definitaly worth a look.
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4:13 pm
March 4, 2012
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OneCentAtatime
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Thats a good resource Hunter
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5:50 pm
March 4, 2012
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Smart Wealth
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Google Analytics is pretty informative.
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6:31 pm
March 4, 2012
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Barbara Friedberg
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The government has amazing statistics if thats what you're looking for (ie economic data etc.). I agree with Hank and funancials.5
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12:45 am
March 5, 2012
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Liquid
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I like this one for just random, interesting stuff  . http://www.worldometers.info/
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5:09 am
March 5, 2012
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What statistics are you looking for? There are a number of government sites that provide stats from the Census to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and more.
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5:29 am
March 5, 2012
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jaicatalano
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I get stats from polls, twitter, facebook friends, etc… However whenever I do a more personal stat I do it via email.
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5:47 am
March 5, 2012
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Frugal Confessions
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I am with Barb, and always surprised with the amount if statistics the government keeps on us.
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7:15 am
March 5, 2012
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I've used bea.gov for economic stats and recently came across ycharts.com that has a huge amount of info for the visually inclined.
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4:50 pm
March 5, 2012
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Afford Anything
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I just use well-known resources like Gallup Polls, AP polls, the Bureau of Labor Stats, Census.gov, etc.
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5:45 am
March 6, 2012
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Smart Wealth
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Smart Wealth said:
Google Analytics is pretty informative.
oops I thought you meant stats about your own site. My bad.
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2:54 pm
March 6, 2012
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20s Finances
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Thanks everyone! These are great sites.
@Glen, I was looking for statistics in general. This includes labor stats, family budgeting, retirement, etc. It seems like a variety of these sites fit the need, but I will have to supplement them with google, from the sound of it.
@Smartwealth, oh well. It happens to the best of us. Thanks for trying! :)
@Liquid – that's an interesting site – I feel slightly less optimistic about changing the world though after looking at that site.
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