Statista is one of the most clearly named resources in the PG Library: It's clearly for finding statistics! 

This is especially important for essays, presentations, or other assignments where you need to convince readers of your claims. A great way to back up your claims is to provide hard data, presented in an understandable and compelling way. Statista can help you with that by providing over a million statistics and thousands of reports to pull facts from and insert into your work. 

Alternatives to Statista include ProQuest Statistical Insight, searching using a web search engine like Google to find publicly available statistics, or going directly to major public statistical websites like U.S. Census or Department of Labor.

Below is a direct link to ProQuest Statistical Insight:

In most web search engines, including Google, you can add site: before either a specific address (ex: www.nytimes.com) or domain (ex: gov, org, or edu).  For example:

motor vehicle theft rates site:gov

The U.S. federal government is a large publisher of statistics and many basics statistics researchers and businesses rely on come from them, especially from the U.S. Census.  For most basic statistics, limiting your search with site:gov will help limit your results to factual, reliable sources.

You can also visit individual department or organization websites that offer statistics in a particular area. For direct access to some frequently used data hubs, visit the links below.