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1. Watch this video to help you understand how to navigate and access the Census and ACS survey data on the US Census website
2. Go to data.census.gov and begin your search for tables of demographic data going back many years.
For US. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission statistics on discrimination visit the EEOC
Visit the US Bureau of Labor for more statistics
1. Add the topic you'd like to search in the search box on the database home page
2. Choose which video/course you'd like from the results list. You can watch the entire video or only as much as you need to understand the topic.
Public Data Sources
SPSS Tutorials
How to Read a Scholarly/Academic Article
Often, the contents of an academic article cannot be grasped by a single reading.
You have to engage with it several times, but in different ways.
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