Quantitative Data Research: State of California Data

Data on county profiles, dynamic revenue analysis and tax expenditure reports.

Economic condition of the state including data for market trends, income growth, industry and resource data and international outlook.

Current consumer price index for all areas within California, and historical consumer price index.

The California Economic Indicators page provides comprehensive information on the State and local labor markets. On this page you will find the most up-to-date labor force and unemployment data released by the EDD, as well as, economic indicators, analysis, and trends. These interactive charts and associated data are updated monthly at the time of the official EDD Press Release. Please refer to the EDD Data Release Schedule to see the next planned update. Local Area Profiles, Labor Market Indicators, Labor Market Data, Economic Indicators, Economic Analysis and Trends, Publications, Additional California Economic Data by Source

Current sales and price statistics, pending home sales index, historical housing data.

Data and statistics collected from California schools and learning support resources to identify trends and educational needs and to measure performance.

DataQuest Department of Education

Information on California ballot propositions and initiatives from 1911 to the present, searchable by keyword and date. The database contains the full text of the initiatives, accompanying material related to their filing and qualification, related legal and legislative history, and digital images of pertinent documents, including the original ballot pamphlets.

Searchable directory of election officials by county, including contact information. Search is also allowed through an interactive county map with links to county elections officials' websites.

Cal-Access provides financial information supplied by state candidates, donors, lobbyists, and others. Searchable by contributors, candidate or ballot measures, late contributions, lobbying, or officers.

This searchable archive of the California State Legislature includes Assembly and House journals from 1849 to 2012, histories and indexes from 1881 to 2009, and statutes from 1850 to 2008.

A searchable database of all memoranda prepared by the Commission's staff. Memoranda prepared in 1997 or later can be downloaded in PDF format; memoranda that are not available for download can be ordered.

This webpage gives links to reports and statistics on various social service programs including CalWorks, food stamps, various children’s programs (adoption, child welfare caseloads, demographics, etc.), community care licensing, disability and adult programs

Birth, Death, Fetal Death, and Infant Death tables, indexes and summaries.

Datasets on demographics, diseases and conditions, environment, facilities and services, healthcare, resources, and workforce.

The full text of bills, resolutions, and constitutional amendments, with their status, history, votes, analyses, and veto messages are available from 1993 to current. Searchable by bill number, author or keyword.

The California Code of Regulations (CCR) is the primary compilation of state regulatory law, decided by individual agencies, as opposed to the statutory law passed by the legislature or through the initiative process, and the case law decided by the courts. Searchable by keyword, title or section number, and browsable by titles and agency names. This website is maintained by West under contract.

This system compiles information for open cases in the California Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal, updated hourly. Searches can include the trial court case number, case caption, attorney, or party information. Notifications by e-mail of specific case activity can be set up by providing a case number and e-mail address.

he Office of Research is responsible for producing a variety of reports and data.

A searchable database of California's 29 codes, covering various subject areas, including the State Constitution and all statutes. The entries are not annotated and can only be browsed or searched by keyword.

The court rules, updated twice a year, presented in a searchable .pdf or webpage format. The rules can also be downloaded as a .zip file.

This site contains crime data submitted by county and local law enforcement agencies, as well as current and historical publications on crime, juvenile justice, homicide, and hate crimes in California.

Standardized California court forms in .pdf format, searchable by name, subject or form number.

Searchable database of the official reports and closed case law from 1850. Opinions are usually current to within 60 days of filing. This database is hosted by LexisNexis® with multiple search methods. Newer decisions are either slip opinions or unpublished opinions.

A transparency initiative led by the California Department of Justice that publishes criminal justice data so we can understand how we are doing, hold ourselves accountable, and improve public policy to make California safer. (From website)

Detailed reports, trend data and searchable information on a variety of court business, such as demographic data on California State justices and judges, trial court workloads, and general court statistics.

Published slip opinions from the previous 120 days can be found here for all California courts, before they are annotated for the Official Reports (above); the opinions can be viewed by district or the most recent 100 hours of all districts.

A directory of all the Superior Courts in the state, searchable by location.

Unpublished opinions of the California Courts of Appeal are posted here for 60 days; the opinions can be viewed by appellate district or the most recent 100 hours of all districts.

California statutes are the chaptered bills, after a bill has passed through both houses of the Legislature and been signed by the Governor or becomes a law without the Governor's signature. Statutes are available starting from 1993, searchable by year or chapter number.

This page contains reports and data from AMH programs and stakeholder organizations.

OHA Public Health Division - Adult Behavioral Risk Survey

"The Communities Reporter Tool (CRT) grants public access to community data in a flexible online space and in an easy to understand way. From the CRT you can access over 600 demographic, social, economic, and environmental indicators about all of the towns, villages, cities, and counties in Oregon and Siskiyou County, California."

Short-term and long-term forecasts from the Office of Economic Analysis, along with links to related data and reports.

Data resources from Oregon Housing and Community Services. Includes housing demographics, housing inventory, poverty demographics, employment and economic data, housing planning efforts, and other housing resources/data

"The Oregon Explorer ...[is a] natural resources digital library that integrates and provides access to data from state and federal agencies, local governments, university scientists and citizens." This section focuses on topics related to people and communities. Subtopics include: Communities, Human Population Dynamics, Race and Ethnicity, and Rural Communities. Provided by OSU Libraries & Press + Institute for Natural Resources.

Tableau Dashboards from Oregon Housing and Community Services. Includes various types of housing and homeownership datasets — Point-in-Time Homeless Count, Homeownership, Affordable Rent Housing, Foreclosure and Delinquency, etc.

The Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System (SWITRS) is a database that serves as a means to collect and process data gathered from a collision scene. Data by age, hour of day, types of collisions, victims, alcohol involvement, truck involvement and location.

Traffic volumes, peak hours, milepost, and peak months for average daily traffic.

Statistics on teen crashes by state, involvements per 1,000 drivers, citations per 100 drivers, accidents involving drinking, fatalities, total violations and more.

This database provides a listing of all California employers that have filed alternate workweek election results with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, such as a 4/10 or 9/80 workweek, whether the alternative won or lost. The database is searchable by company name, address, city, county, state, zip code, and date of the election.

An index page that accesses some of the databases offered by the DIR and its divisions.

The DBE database contains information on CalTrans-certified DBE firms and is updated daily. As of August 2013 a printout from this database is all that is necessary to qualify as a DBE contractor, as paper licenses are no longer issued. The database can be queried by CalTrans district number, county, work category, gender of the majority owner, race, contractor license type, NAICS number, firm name and location. Most government contracts in California require DBE quotas.

Dozens of professions in California require certification or registration with the Labor Commissioner; a full list is available here, which includes permit or license searches for garment manufacturers and contractors, farm labor contractors, car washing and polishing, talent agencies, and studio teachers. Databases for individual license lookups are listed under "licensing".

EAMS is a case management system that simplified the DWC case management process. External users now have access to workers' comp case information online. The system is primarily for case filing; however, information on workers' compensation adjudication cases is public information. Each person who requests information through this database is responsible for ensuring the information is not used for purposes other than those allowed by law. The law requires that people requesting access to public information here identify themselves, state the reason for making the request, and not disclose the information to any person who is not entitled to it under Labor Code section 138.7. You will need either the name of the injured worker or the EAMS case number to use this database.

The searchable Career Resources pages contain all job postings that are received by the Information Studies Lab; this includes those received by post and those received through email (e.g. IS-NET postings). Records are listed in order of date received. This is a significant resource for librarians and information scientists in California.

A gateway to detailed labor information, some searchable, including unemployment rates, industry data, economic indicators, and occupational profiles (including licensing requirements in California.) This database includes links to information on the United States as a whole and other states.

All investor-owned electric, gas, water and telecommunication utility companies with gross annual revenues in excess of $25 million and their regulated subsidiaries and affiliates, are to increase the utilization of woman- and minority-owned businesses. Certification of eligible suppliers was designed to encourage, recruit, and utilize woman- and minority-owned businesses by participating utilities. The Clearinghouse is a CPUC-supervised entity that maintains a database of verified woman, minority, and service-disabled veteran owned businesses that is accessible to the CPUC and to participating utilities.

Search for statewide volunteer opportunities by interest (e.g., "Animals and Environment", "Arts and Culture") or keyword and also limit your search by zip code or county. There is also an advanced search.

An online tool accessing a database of prevailing wages for journeyman craft workers (such as carpenters, iron workers, asbestos workers, etc.) The general determinations are issued twice a year and go into effect ten days thereafter; the database is divided by craft, type of wage, and county.