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United States

Findlaw
Choose "For Legal Professionals" option, choose "Practice Areas" and then "Web Guide- Databases" for comprehensive labor related statistical resources.
http://lp.findlaw.com/

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections

Provides statistics about the labor market, educational attainment, salaries, etc.
http://www.bls.gov/emp/home.htm
Most requested statistics from BLS (Cornell University)
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/subjectGuides/mostRequestedStatistics.html

U.S. Census Bureau

The major collector and provider of data about the economy and people of the United States.
http://www.census.gov
Most requested statistics from the Census Bureau (Cornell University)
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/subjectGuides/mostRequestedStatistics.html

U.S. Department of Labor

http://www.dol.gov
Most requested data from the DOL
http://www.dol.gov/dol/top-requested.htm

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

Statistics concerning "labor law enforcement, including age, disability, equal pay, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, retaliation and sexual harassment."
http://www.eeoc.gov/
Most requested statistics from EEOC (Cornell University)
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/subjectGuides/mostRequestedStatistics.html

U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
http://www.osha.gov/
Most requested statistics from OSHA (Cornell University)
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/subjectGuides/mostRequestedStatistics.html

U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
http://www.opm.gov/
Most requested statistics from OPM (Cornell University)
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/subjectGuides/mostRequestedStatistics.html

U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA)

Find statistics on retirement, disability and health issues.
http://www.ssa.gov/
Most requested statistics from SSA (Cornell University)
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/subjectGuides/mostRequestedStatistics.html

International

Child Labour

Comparable and comprehensive data on child labor in all its forms.
http://www.ilo.org/ipec/index.htm

Economic Policy Institute (EPI) Datazone

Labor market and earnings and income data.
http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/datazone_index

Human Security Gateway
"A rapidly expanding searchable online database of human security-related resources including reports, journal articles, news items and fact sheets." Under Resources, choose Facts and Figures along with topic of interest.
http://www.humansecuritygateway.info/

International Labour Migration

Goal is to "make information on international migration widely available."
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/migrant/ilmdb/index.htm

International Labour Organization Bureau of Statistics

Provides, "relevant, timely and reliable labour statistics."
http://www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/stat/index.htm

Labordoc ILO Library

Provides references to a wide range of print and electronic publications.
http://labordoc.ilo.org

LABORSTA

Labor statistics for over 200 countries.
http://laborsta.ilo.org/

Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation

"Distributes public-use datasets related to studies on
welfare-to-work, public program participation, and program evaluation efforts."
http://www.mdrc.org/rsch_publicuse.htm

NATLEX
"A continuously-updated database containing references to over 55,000 national laws on labor, social security, and related human rights, and over 300 laws in full text. Records and texts in NATLEX (National Laws on Labor, Social Security and Related Human Rights Database) are in either English, French, or Spanish."
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex_browse.home

Source OECD
Contains Labor Force Statistics, detailed statistics on population, labour force, employment and unemployment, broken down by gender, as well as unemployment duration, employment status, employment by sector of activity and  part-time employment.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/indexes/titles.html?id=335

Human Rights

Beginner's Guide to Conflict Data:  Finding and Using the Right Dataset
Paper gives discusses how to choose the right conflict dataset and also lists 60 prominent conflict datasets.
http://www.pcr.uu.se/publications/UCDP_pub/UCDP_paper1.pdf

Center on Democratic Performance (CDP)
"The mission of the CDP is to evaluate the performance of democracies on a number of critical dimensions, such as civil conflict and its management, human rights, voting rights, and political representation."
http://cdp.binghamton.edu

Correlates of War
Systematic accumulation of scientific knowledge about war.
http://www.correlatesofwar.org/

Hate Crime Statistics, 2004
"HCS is the byproduct of the joint effort between the FBI and the law enforcement agencies that identify and report hate crimes. This partnership and, ultimately, this publication serve as the cornerstone in raising the Nation’s awareness about the occurrence of bias-motivated offenses. The publication has also become a statistical tool for those involved in the advocacy or the study of persons persecuted because of their inherent traits, such as the color of their skin, or the personal decisions they make, like what church they attend."
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2004/openpage.htm

Human Security Gateway
"A rapidly expanding searchable online database of human security-related resources including reports, journal articles, news items and fact sheets." Under Resources, choose Facts and Figures along with topic of interest.
http://www.humansecuritygateway.info/

National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect

Scholarly exchange among researchers in the child maltreatment field.
http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/

NATLEX
"A continuously-updated database containing references to over 55,000 national laws on labour, social security, and related human rights, and over 300 laws in full text. Records and texts in NATLEX (National Laws on Labour, Social Security and Related Human Rights Database) are in either English, French, or Spanish."
http://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex_browse.home

RAND Terrorism Database Project

"RAND and the Oklahoma City National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) have been working together since April 2001 to prepare an online database of terrorism incidents to help researchers, analysts, and others working to prevent terrorism."
http://www.rand.org/ise/projects/terrorismdatabase/

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Database on Human Trafficking Trends
Provides a "comparative analysis of global human trafficking patterns based upon the systematic collection and coding of human trafficking activities as reported 1996-2003."
http://www.humansecuritygateway.info/data/item19737310

Last updated on March 20, 2008.