Where do you get your statistics from?

If you make a statement supporting a case using statistics, where is it that you get those statistics from?

Where do you get your statistics from?
Occasionally, I pull statistics from various articles that I've read. I often read the daily articles on the Ludwig von Mises Institute website [1] - a free market economics website. I often reference those articles. Sometimes they offer statistics. Other times, I do a google search to find the statistics myself. Quite often, top results go to wikipedia. I always reference the sources that I use.





For market data statistics, my favorite public sources include the Federal Reserve [2] and our own Yahoo! Finance [3].
Reply:When it comes to oil, income, and financial statistics I use various government studies.





Like the Department of Interior and Land leases with oil reserves.





I get called a liberal and "left wing" blah, blah for using Bush's government studies...its almost comical.





Or sometimes I use the company in question's figures......





Rarely do I use "polls" and media outlet studies.....
Reply:Like Obama being a hypocrite??





He is SO against hillary's gas tax holiday, but........





http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_o...
Reply:I read the Economist, WSJ, NYT, and other publications. Really, the TV and radio media reports on economic matters is rarely even handed or accurately depicted.
Reply:30% of the statistics I use are made up. 10% are proven facts according to pollsters, and the remaining 59% are just drivel.





There is a errancy factor of 20% - 30%
Reply:A good place for US statistics (esp politics) is:





http://www.pollingreport.com/





They gather polls from all major sources in the US.
Reply:I make them up just like ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN
Reply:good answer from keith.