Africana Studies (African American & African)

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Facts & Figures 

Historical Statistics of Black America - E185 .H543 1995 Main Ref.
A two-volume set organized alphabetically by subject containing statistics about African-Americans.

Minority Data Resource Center (MDRC) http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/MDRC/
MDRC provides data resources for the comparative analysis of issues affecting racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States. It offer streamlined access to existing ICPSR data and to newly acquired studies that are relevant to the study of immigration, place of origin, ancestry, ethnicity, and race in the United States. Access to MDRC data is available to the University of Arizona as an ICPSR member university. Many of the studies that comprise the collection have the full product suite of setup and ready-to-files for SAS, SPSS, and Stata, as well as PDF documentation and online analysis capabilities.
MDRC is both a data archive, and a resource for instructors. ICPSR is in the process of developing teaching tools based on the data in the MDRC collection. Others are also invited to develop tools for studies in our collection. MDRC data collections with SDA online analysis are equipped with three additional analysis tools:

* Sample Characteristics. This tool allows interested users to assess whether the sample population of a study has the desired demographic characteristics.

* Recode Syntax. This tool allows users to not only recode a variable, an option already available through online analysis, but also print out the syntax necessary for that recode so that syntax may be incorporated into users' own statistical syntax files.

* Subset. This tool allows users to create data subsets dynamically for selected subpopulations of the survey.

Negro Almanac:  A Reference Work on the African American - E185 .N385 1989 Main Ref.
Definitive reference on the history and culture of African-Americans and their contributions to national life.

Statistical Record of Black America - E185.5 .S73 1990 Main Ref.
Contains recent data of interest to civic and community groups as well as to individuals.