Statistical Resources on the Web
Energy

DOE Information Bridge (Dept. of Energy/GPO)

• Full text of over 25,000 contracted technical reports on energy beginning January 1996
• Choose GIF, TIFF, or PDF format at initial screen
• Easy search provides author, title, and keyword approach
• Advanced search adds capability by contractor, publication number, and date
• Documents may be downloaded as a whole or viewed page-by-page
• Documents retrieved may also be searched individually for keywords, including statistics or data

Energy Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Energy)

• Current statistics on energy consumption, production, and prices
• Energy forecasts
• Energy assessments for major energy-producing countries
• Provides import of petroleum by detailed foreign country since 1993; the printed Minerals Yearbook, Vol. 1: Metals and Minerals, (TN 23 .U582) may have import data for earlier years

FedStats

• Comprehensive listing to statistical programs of over 70 federal government agencies
• Arranged by agency or program; includes explanatory material and contacts
• Search engine indexes individual statistical tables by keyword or agency and provides direct connection

Global Insight (UMich Only)

• Business database with news and time series data on general economics as well as the automotive, energy medical and pharmaceutical, and telecommunications sectors
• For ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL DATA, choose DataInsight-Web on the lefthand side of the screen
  • Under historical data, choose Global Economy, Financial Markets, US Economy or US Regional Economy
  • Select in a separate box the indicator , the geography, and source; then choose frequency (e.g. monthly quarterly); then press GO
  • Highlight the table of interest and note any INFORMATION in the lower lefthand box (sometimes the spreadsheet doesn't identify a country or other information
  • Export the selected data
  • Subjects include IMF, Direction of Trade, Balance of Payments and OECD main economic indicators
  • US economic indicators include Daily Treasury Statements, housing, prices, retail trade, industrial output, labor markets, national accounts as well as state breakdowns for many of the indicators
  • Some time series date back 40 years
  • Sample search
• For Automotive, Energy, Healthcare and Telecoms, use the link provided under MYINSIGHT SERVICES on the lefthand side of the main screen to select options which will eventually appear on the lower part of the lefthand side
  • AUTOMOTIVE - production and sales by country and by automotive company
  • ENERGY - primarily country reports on oil, gas, electricity, government policies, and political risks
  • HEALTH CARE - country data on causes of death, health care expenditures per capita, the pharmaceutical market; US FDA approved drug list
  • TELECOMMUNICATIONS - country data on land line and mobile phone as well as internet users; market penetration by company

Institute for the Analysis of Global Security

• Interest group on independence from foreign oil
• Articles describe the relationship between oil and terrorism, the geopolitics of oil, the "real price of gasoline"
• Alternative fuel sources, especially methanol and fuel cells

International Nuclear Safety Center Database

• Locate nuclear powerplants around the world by address or maps
• Operational data on individual nuclear reactors

Monthly Energy Review (EIA)

• Production, consumption and trade of energy sources, both overall and by individual products (e.g. petroleum)
• Monthly data for the past few years and annual data since 1973
• Links to ASCII format on left-hand side of page
• Also available in WK1 and XLS spreadsheet formats
• Annual Energy Review has corresponding data often since 1949

Residential Energy Consumption (DOE)

• Regional data on energy consumption, heating and cooling equipment, and appliances
• Some 1997 national data on computer and modem use
• Data Tables has pull-down menus which retrieve heating, cooling, appliance, and office equipment data by region, climate zone, household income, and tenure

Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1996

• Compendium of government and non-government statistics, primarily on the national and state levels
• Population and vital statistics, health, economics, education, manufacturing, natural resources, transportation, and U.S. Industrial Outlook (production and foreign trade by four-digit SIC for past six years)
• Full text available in Adobe Acrobat format
• State rankings and state/county profiles in HTML format
• The full text of Statistical Abstract is available in most University of Michigan campus libraries as HA 202

Statistical Universe (UMich Only)

• Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974; business, association and state government data since 1980, and international agencies since 1983
• Access through the Statistical Sources menu
• Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign country, by age, by disease)
  • Sample Search: electric! and demand and by city
• About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
• For items not hot-linked:
  • Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to the Documents Center for the microfiche version
  • Consult Statistical Universe Guide for various web searching alternatives and a Slide Show for further details

Weather and Electricity Demand Forecast

• High and low weather predictions for next seven days
• Data for the nation, regions, states, and selected local areas
• Anticipated electricity demand

Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
University of Michigan Library
Ankur Mehta, Documents Assistant
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