Rhode Island Statistics

Crime	Federal Statistics
Demographics	Health
Education	Miscellaneous
Economics	Transportation
Environment

Note: These are mainly links for online datasets. Remember, older data are many times available in paper form, usually issued as reports from RI. Check Josiah.

Crime

RI Domestic Violence is a downloadable data set on Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault.

R.I. Justice Commission contains downloadable criminal statistics.

R.I. State Police: Crime Statistics has crime and law enforcement data.

Also see Federal Statistics

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Demographics

MapStats from FedStats

ProvPlan provides tons of maps and data about Providence, RI.

Rhode Island Census Data (Rhode Island Statewide Planning Program) has online census data and maps.

RI.gov: Facts & History: Demographics

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Education

R.I. Kids Count has data on children divided in various ways

National Center for Education Statistics

• Digest has hundreds of tables with educational data.

• Dropout Rates contains reports on rates back to 1991.

• School Districts Demographics has excellent resources about schools, including maps of districts.

• State Education Data Profile: Rhode Island provides data on finances, number of students, teachers, etc.

• The Nation's Report Card (State Profile): Rhode Island has the state's scores on math, reading, science and writing.

National Clearinghouse for English Language (NCELA): Rhode Island Data & Demographics has data on LEP enrollment.

Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education: Education Data

• Information Works! annual reports on public education in Rhode Island back to 1998.

• Creating Aggregate Report has data by school district on dropouts and graduates.

SchoolMatter provides data on schools and states.

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Economics

Energy Information Administration (EIA)

• State Data offers energy data by state or by end-user.

FDIC State Profiles: Rhode Island gives basic statistics on housing, energy, banks, etc.

RI Economic Development Corporation hosts reports on buisness and general economic patturns.

R.I. Employment Statistics has employment statistics in excel and pdf formats.

Rhode Island Geographic Informatin System (RIGIS) contains economic spatial and numeric data for GIS.

Rhode Island LMI (Labor Market Information) Data Center contains state labor statistics, such as wages and employment.

National Agricultural Statistics Service

U.S. Census Bureau: State & County Quickfacts Scroll down to Business QuickLinks . There is a wealth of data, i.e., NAICS data down to the town level, county and government data. In Other QuickLinks , there are data USA Counties General Profile, Statistical Abstract of the United States and data from other Federal agencies

U.S. Department of Labor: Rhode Island has a wealth of data about R.I., including CPI, unemployment, wages, occupational injuries data, etc.

www.fueleconomy.gov/

• Links To Gasoline Price Data For Rhode Island provides data on gas prices in the state.

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Environment

Environmental Protection Agency You can conduct searches for R.I. data on the following sites:

• AirData

• Toxic Release Data

• Superfund contains information about hazardous sites.

USGS: Daily Streamflow Conditions provides up-to-date data on water flow in R.I. Also, you can customize summary tables.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's  (NOAA): Data from Rhode Island has environmental data such as weather forecasts, and climate and hydrological data.

State of Rhode Island: Department of Environmental Management

• Maps offers interactive maps about Environmental Resources, Oilspills, Brownfields, etc.

• Rhode Island Air Quality Conditions & Forecasts

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Health

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• CDC Healthy Youth! Rhode Island has data on School Heatlh Programs, Risk Behavior, etc.

• Overweight and Obesity: State-Based Programs: Rhode Island

• Rhode Island Facts

• Rhode Island Fact Sheet

R.I. Kids Count has data on children divided in various ways

Rhode Island Department of Health

• Health Data and Statistics contains many data sets such as Adolescent Substance Abuse Survey, Medicine and Health Rhode Island, and Hospital Discharge Data.

• Health Data Inventory lists databases maintained by the R.I. Health Department and whether they're publically accessible or not.

• Office of Health Statistics also has many data sets including risk behavior.

• The Rhode Island HEALTH Web Query System contains data from the Rhode Island's Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFS) from 1998-2004 and data from Rhode Island's Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System (YRBS) from 2001, 2003, and 2005.

National Healthcare Quality Report has over 100 variables on health.

Statehealthfacts.org: Rhode Island provides health data on a number of subjects by the Henry Kaiser Foundation.

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Miscellaneous

RI.gov Statistics & Research Links has various links to R.I. government data on subjects such as education, crime, economics, etc.

U.S. Census Bureau Quicklinks

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Transportation

National Center for Statistics and Analysis of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has many reports with data about traffic safety.

• Rhode Island: Toll Of Motor Vehicle Crashes, 2004 - 2000

Rhode Island Geographic Informatin System (RIGIS) contains transportation spatial and numeric data for GIS.

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