Count Data Source Name Level of Measurement

Post-secondary academic institutions

1 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System across the country

Health information for consumers and

helath providers centered on improving
2 Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services health and managing associated cost.

National Medicaid trends, including state

3 Center for Medicaid and Chip Services data

Nationwide data regarding our population

4 United States Census Bureau and our people

5 National Comprehensive Cancer Network National and international

6 World Health Organization Worldwide measures

7 Internal Revenue Service National data

 8 National Center for Education Statistics National data

9 The University of Alabama Open Records university financial data

10 The State of Alabama Open Records statewide financial data

The Economic Development Partnership of

11 Alabama statewide economic development

12 Center for Disease Control and Prevention National

13 National Highway Traffic Saftey Administration National

14 U.S. Cluster Mapping Project National

15 Bureau of Labor Statistics National

16 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National

17 United States Department of Agriculture

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and

18 Explosives

19 Office of Civil Rights National, State and Local

20 Alabama Board of Medical Examiners State

21 Death Penalty Information Center National, State and Local

22 Health Resources and Services Administration National, State and Local

23 Administration for Children and Families National, State and Local

24 Administration for Community Living National, and state

25 NCQA National

26 The Urban Institute National, State and Local

27 The Museum of Natural History Worldwide measures

28 Our World in Data Worldwide measures

29 National Transportation Safety Board National

30 Federal Housing Finance Agency National and state

31 Office of Civil Rights Health and Human Services National and State

32 Alabama Regional Economic Analysis Project State and regional

33 National Low Income Housing Coalition State and local

34 United Network for Organ Sharing National and state
35 U. S. Food and Drug Administration National

36 Consumer Product Safety Commission National

The Supreme Court Database - Washing University

37 Law National

38 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau National

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and

39 Development International

40 Open Government - Department of Defense National

41 Robert Graham Center National

42 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality National, State and Local
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 URL Variables Available

Expansive data set of educational data,

including institution type, degree
programs, graduation rates, budgetary
https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/ information, tuition rates, etc…

Data may include Medicare provider

https://data.cms.gov/
credentialing information, initiative -
shared saving data, Affordable Health Care
data, also information related to public
health concerns, health disparities among
recipients, etc…

Data may include prescription drug

utilization, disproportionate
https://www.medicaid.gov/inde payments/uncompensated hospital care,
x.html enrollment data by state, etc…

Numerous data collection efforts aimed at

economic analysis measurement, including
https://www.census.gov/en.htm societal demographics, housing costs,
l family sizes, income levels, etc…

Limited free available surveys and reports,

member organizations must purchase
https://www.nccn.org/ detail data for research.

Data and analysis for health and health

http://www.who.int/en/ related developmental goals.

Data is available by state, category, type of

statistic, for example, one could review the
https://www.irs.gov/statistics number of returns by filing status by state.
 Educational data at the local, state and
federal level, for primary, secondary and
post secondary education. The specific link
https://nces.ed.gov/ shows Alabama public school districts.

Variables include type of expenditure,

payee, date ranges, amounts, purchase
http://open.ua.edu/ order information, etc…

Variables include type of spending by

category, person, agency, etc… My example
link is utilities, the link shows by category,
one click takes you to payee and you can
export to excel. One could compare
governement utility cost by state, locating
http://open.alabama.gov/ other state data.

Advantage Alabama provides a site

selection search tool for available
properties in the State of Alabama for
industries, retailers, entrepreneurs
https://www.edpa.org/ considering locating in the state.
Cancer statistics nationwide, by state,
https://www.cdc.gov/ male/female, demographic, etc…

The specific link allows you to review state

by state fatality rates over the last 20 years,
review those that were alcohol relaed,
https://www.nhtsa.gov/ compare states, etc…

Numerous data sources for economic

development and planning are available,
primarly by type, region, state, etc…
Community profiles, Performance, policy,
etc... I looked at average salaries by state,
http://clustermapping.us/ wage rate growth by region, etc..

Employment and benefits census

information, geographicallu, by industry,
https://www.bls.gov/data/ etc..

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
https://www.usda.gov/
https://www.atf.gov/
https://ocrdata.ed.gov/#
http://www.albme.org/
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/
https://www.hrsa.gov/
Data available for all aspects of weather
and climate by region, state, county, etc…
including but not limited to precipitation,
marine changes, storms.
The specific link allows you to pull
nutritional values on specific foods, food
groups, etc…
This particular link captures firearm
recovery data, and this shows the ages of
gun owners who's gun was recovered.
This link takes you to a query tool, I
searched different sports offered in
Tuscaloosa City Schools.
Medical licensure statuses, application
status, and public reporting logs. This link
shows the public reporting log, the excel
malfunctioned but I was able to download
the PDF and convert it to excel for a
sortable usable database. One could sort
by action taken to examine the statewide
issues with physicians.
This link shows executions since 1977 by
age, race, state, method, race of victin,
region of the country may also be pulled.
IT would be helpful to add the type of
crime committed as a public safety policy
initiative review.
Data files include information regarding
HRSA grants awarded for use addressing
the underserved, vunerable populations
and health professional shortage areas.
This example link shows HPSA shortage
areas and their score in Alabama.
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ Various data files, clients served, separately
reported Tribal data, financial data, etc…
The example link includes the full FY16
financial data set.

This sight offers data on the aged and

https://www.acl.gov/
disabled, census, population, indicators of
well being, minority aging, etc… I chose
the example link for key indicators of well
being - it shows persons 65+, data between
1900 projected to 2060, population,
marital status, living, arrangements, by
state, family income levels, health
insurance, disability.

Health outcome quality meaures,

http://www.ncqa.org/
benchmarking, averages, percentiles, etc…
Some data is available free, other data
must be purchased. You are able to
establish an account and download some
data free of charge. I was able to open an
account and obtain HEDIS - tHealthcare
Effectiveness Data and Information sets,
that included national averages for private
insurance payors for example, annual
monitoring of persistent medications,
emergency visits per 1000 participants,
antidepressant medication management,
etc...

I pulled data on the rental housing crisis in

https://www.urban.org/ Tuscaloosa County, Alabama

The specific one I reference is a catalog of

fishes of the world, and other information
about the various species, their location,
https://collections.nmnh.si.edu extinction or not, etc…

https://ourworldindata.org/
https://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/de fatality data, miles flown, flight hours,
fault.aspx
https://www.fhfa.gov
https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/br monitor breaches, by period, impact,
each/breach_report.jsf
https://alabama.reaproject.org/ earnings growth over a period.
http://nlihc.org/
A wide variety of worldwide pubic good
data is available. I chose Mental Health
and you can review % of affected citizens
overall or drill down to a specific type of
mental illness. I drilled down to Anxiety
disorders for the specific link.
The site provides air traffic, accident and
accidents per flight hours, etc…
This site offers extensive data both public
and private related to loans, home price
indexes, market data, interest rates, etc… I
pulled a data set on single family
mortgages showing a 10 year span,
showing the different types of mortgages
and the $$ total spending in each category.
This was national data.
This report allows one to review and
nationally and by state.
This report alows you to pull various
economic indications, including jobs
growth, annual earnings, etc… I compared
two Alabama black belt counties for
I searched their database and located
affordable housing options in California. I
could print that to adobe and convert it to
an excel file and focus down to a target
population, for instance, housing for
homeless persons with mental illness.

https://unos.org/
https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls
http://scdb.wustl.edu/index.php that included 1946 to 2017.
https://www.consumerfinance.g including credit scores, lending levels, age
ov/
http://www.oecd.org/
http://data.defense.gov/
The datasets include transplant by organ,
numbers, locally, regionally, nationally, for a
30 year period. The information includes
donor and waiting list. We have a friend
and colleague on the heart transplant list in
Louisanna. I was able to drill down to see
that there are 39 males on the wait list but
only 31 total African Americans, so that
tells me he is in a population than the
overall male count, which improves his
odds based on his ethnicity, but then only
15 in his age group which betters his odds.
The database allows you to pull reports,
data in excel format and allows you to build
queries for data. I pulled an excel report of
injuries in 2009 by date, age, sex, race,
body part, diagnosis
The extensive file includs cases centered,
organized, docketed, ruled and issued. I
pulled an excel file of the docket of cases
Data pulled included borrower risk profiles,
of lendor, etc…
Data available is expansive including topics
of agriculture, economy, education, energy,
government, health, etc… I pulled GDP
data for participating countries showing
their growth 2012-2019
Interestly some datasets were not allowed
as determined to be unsecured. I was able
to pull 2008 uniformed services absentee
voter counts.
 Their website has extensive data and tools
to help inform policymaking, improve
medical school models, and improve the
healthcare landscape in the US. The data
point I have included shows the graduate
medical education dollars and indirect
medical education payments received by
US hospitals. This data can be sorted by
https://www.graham- state, hospital beds, employee counts, etc..
center.org/rgc/home.html

Informatics, Utilization, costs, etc… The

attached link is a access database of
https://www.ahrq.gov/ hospital statistics for a given time period.
 Description Specific Example Link

All colleges, universities, technical schools,

etc that participate in the federal financial
aid programs must complete annual
surveys to develop this dataset. It is often
used as a benchmarking tool for various https://nces.ed.gov/DAS/library/tables_listi
institutions. ngs/2004159.asp

Expansive data sets provided by CMS, the

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services,
healthcare, health policy related, a center
within the federal agency, Department of https://data.cms.gov/mapping-medicare-
Human and Human Services (HHS) disparities

CMCS is a center within CMS, specifically

focused on the Medicaid and underinsured https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/financ
population of the nation. e/dsh/index.html

The Census Bureau is a division of the

Department of Commerce and is managed
by the Economics and Statistics https://datamapper.geo.census.gov/map.ht
Administration. ml

NCCN is a non profit cancer research and

education organization that partners with
the worlds leading cancer centers to
develop treatment protocols, educational https://www.nccn.org/store/Products/Tren
materials and training in oncology. ds/Previous.aspx

WHO's primary goal is to impact, improve

world health outcomes, medical care,
nutrition, air quality, etc.. And is made up http://www.who.int/healthinfo/global_bur
of United Nations members. den_disease/estimates_country/en/

A data book of income tax statistiscs

archived in some instances back to https://www.irs.gov/statistics/soi-tax-stats-prior-year-irs-data-books
1863,tables, organizational information,
budget, etc..
 https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/distr
ict_list.asp?
Search=1&details=1&InstName=&DistrictID
=&Address=&City=&State=01&Zip=&Miles=
&County=&PhoneAreaCode=&Phone=&Dis
trictType=1&DistrictType=2&DistrictType=3
&DistrictType=4&DistrictType=5&DistrictTy
pe=6&DistrictType=7&DistrictType=8&Num
OfStudents=&NumOfStudentsRange=more
The federal entity that collects and analyzes &NumOfSchools=&NumOfSchoolsRange=m
education data. ore

Same - I searched utilities cost FYTD

10.01.17 to 4.30.18, total spending almost
University of Alabama financial data $2M.

State of Alabama data, financial/state http://open.alabama.gov/Checkbook/Categ

spending, ethics related, leases, real estate, ory/CategorySubCategory.aspx?
etc… ocode=0700

State of Alabama economic development

resources http://advantagealabama.com/
The CDC is a federal agency tasked with https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/USCS/DataViz.ht
promoting public health. ml

https://www-
NHTSA is a federal executive branch agency fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/States/StatesFatalitiesFa
tasked with roadway saftey. talityRates.aspx

This is a partnership between Harvard

Business School and the US Economic
Development Administration to collect data
critical to local leaders shaping their
community's economic development. http://clustermapping.us/region

https://data.bls.gov/cew/apps/table_maker
The Bureau of Labor and Statistics is a /v4/table_maker.htm#type=0&year=2016&
federal government agency qtr=A&own=5&ind=1013&supp=0
The NOAA is responsible for collecting and https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-
monitoring weather and climate data. web/datatools/normals

https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/nutrients/re
USDA leads the effort to ensure our food, port/nutrientsfrm?
agriculture, nutrition values, etc...are safe, max=25&offset=0&totCount=0&nutrient1=
promote wellness, as well as manage public 203&nutrient2=269&nutrient3=291&fg=1&
policy in these regards. subset=0&sort=c&measureby=g

The ATF is responsible for ensuring our

safety from criminals, illegal gun use, https://www.atf.gov/resource-
alcohol, tobacco. center/firearms-trace-data-2016

Office of Civil Rights in the Department of

Education. This site measures access and https://ocrdata.ed.gov/flex/Reports.aspx?
equity in the nations public school system. type=school

https://abme.igovsolution.com/online/Lookups/Publiclogfile.aspx

The ALBME is the state licensing agency for

MDs and DO's, NP and PA collaborations,
etc..

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/views-executions
This is a national nonprofit organization
primarily funded by individual donors and
foundations whose mission is focused on
capital punishment.

https://datawarehouse.hrsa.gov/Tools/DataPortalResults.aspx
This agency of HHS is primarily focused on
insuring access to quality primary
healthcare in rural and otherwise
geographically isolated areas.
 https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/resource/tanf-financial-data-fy-2016
This is an agency of HHS as well and its
primary focus is to provide assistance and
economic security to needy families.

The ACL's stated mission is "maximizing the

independence, well-being, and health of
older adults, people with disabilities across
the lifespan, and their families and
caregivers."

The National Committee for Quality http://www.ncqa.org/HEDISQualityMeasur

Assurance is a private non profit dedicated ement/QualityMeasurementProducts/Quali
to improving health care quality. tyCompass.aspx

This organizaiton is a nonprofit research

entity guided by a common goal of
improving public policy http://apps.urban.org/features/rental-housing-crisis-map/. Other data includes va

The Smithsonian Museum and its many

divisions offer vast databases of the various
collections they have built over the years,
along with information about those https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/fish
collections. es/
Our World in Data is an online publication
of living conditions focused on the public
good. Subject matter ranges from health to https://ourworldindata.org/mental-
energy to education and beyond. health#anxiety-disorders

The NTSB is charged with ensuring a high

level of safety in our transportation system.
They investigate accidents, develop training
provide assistance to families of aviation https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/data/
accidents, etc… Pages/Accident-data-review.aspx

The FHFA is a relatively new agency tasked

with supervising Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac https://www.fhfa.gov/DataTools/Download
and the Federal Home Loan Bank System. s/Pages/Current-Market-Data.aspx

The Office of Civil Rights, an agency of the

Health and Human Services Department https://ocrportal.hhs.gov/ocr/breach/breac
administers HIPAA, privacy security policy h_report.jsf;jsessionid=5AA62DC5313C6FD
and enforcement. 5DCF512EB0C124D2C

The Regional Economic Analysis Project is a https://alabama.reaproject.org/analysis/co

non profit organization funded by mparative-trends-
subscriptions to deliver regional economic analysis/average_earnings_per_job/tools/1
analysis by state and by region. 0105/10047/

Founded in the early seventies, its primary

purpose is to assist low income families find http://nlihc.org/rental-
affordable and decent homes. programs/search/all/56
This private non profit organization
contracts with the federal government, so a
private-public partnership, to manage the https://optn.transplant.hrsa.gov/data/view-
organ donor system for the United States. data-reports/state-data/#

A federal agency, its responsibility is

protecting the public from unreasonable https://www.cpsc.gov/cgibin/NEISSQuery/h
risks associated with consumer products. ome.aspx

WUL maintains a complete Supreme court

database about decisions between 1791
and 2016. http://scdb.wustl.edu/data.php

The CFPB, a government agency, was https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-

created to enforce accountability and laws research/consumer-credit-trends/credit-
to protect the consumer in the financial cards/borrower-risk-
market. profiles/#anchor_lending-levels

The OECD is an organization that includes https://www.oecd-

members from European countries, US, ilibrary.org/economics/data/oecd-
Canada and beginning to partner with economic-outlook-statistics-and-
other emerging economies related to projections/oecd-economic-outlook-no-
economic development 102-edition-2017-2_05b705e7-en

The intent of this website since 2009 was to

expand public access to information that is http://data.defense.gov/Public-Data-
not restricted. Listing/Data-Listing-HTML/
The American Academy of Family
Physicians developed a Center for Policy
Studyies in Family Medicine, initiated by a
group of physician researchers. Its aim is to
improve population health through policy https://www.graham-center.org/rgc/maps-
and research. data-tools/data-tables/gme.html

The AHRQ is a federal agency charged with

improving the safety and quality of https://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/syste
America's health care system. ms/monahrq/archives/index.html
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