December 4, 2008
“I need to find the unemployment rate by state for each election year going back 40 years ago.”
“I am looking for 5 year time range of addresses of section 8 (Public) housing in the city of
Champaign” (for use in a GIS project).
Email – “I am trying to find a 1970 Census Tract Map of Champaign-Urbana.”
Phone call/email – “I am doing demographic profiling. I need current data on the number
of immigrants in the United States and I need help with projections. I need 3, 5, and 10
years out. What is the difference between 1990 and 2000 censuses regarding household vs.
family?”
Long distance phone call – “I am doing a paper for a class assignment. I need the most
recent census data on the number of Chinese in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Also, I need data
on the number of stay-at-home-moms in Arlington Heights?”
In person – “I am looking for world literacy rates for individual countries for the past 20
years.”
Phone request for help with a Reference Question from the Urbana Free Library –“We have a
patron looking for the total popular vote for presidential elections (back to 1789).”
Phone call – “I would like to get the FY 2008 expenditures & revenues, annual attendance
figures, and number of FT & PT employees for 5 Illinois State Parks and 19 Illinois Historic
Sites.”
“I am looking for statistics on child maltreatment.”
“I’m trying to find literacy rates and educational levels of male and female inmates in
Illinois prisons.”
“I need the rates of Internet connections by country.”
IRS data county by county on who paid taxes (migration per 10 years) for the states of
Michigan, Illinois and Louisiana.
I need statistics on childhood diseases.
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