OKPOLICY.ORG
Policy Research Links & Tips
Where is the data?
Oklahoma-Specific
- OK Policy’s State & County Data Resources
- Oklahoma Digital Prairie (State Agency Annual Reports and other primary documents)
- State of Oklahoma public datasets
Census Data
- Current Population Survey
- American Fact Finder
- Census Reporter (tool created for the Knight News Challenge to be an easier way to explore and chart Census data)
Economic Data
- US Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Federal Reserve Economic Data
- U.S. Census Quarterly Workforce Indicators
- IRS Tax Statistics
- National Association of State Budget Officers
Education Data
- National Center for Educational Statistics (NAEP scores)
- IPEDS Data Center (higher education)
Criminal Justice Data
Health Data
- Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (State Health Facts)
Think Tanks
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- State Priorities Partnership
- Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
- Economic Policy Institute
- Brookings Institute
- Urban Institute
- Pew Center on the States
- Tax Foundation
- Charles Koch Institute
Even More
- Google Public Data Explorer
- Journalist’s Resource
- Hechinger Report (education policy news)
- The Marshall Project (criminal justice policy news)
- Kaiser Health News (health policy news)
- Governing Magazine (state and local policy news)
- City Observatory (municipal policy news)
Read the Bills, Laws, Rules, Etc.
- Oklahoma Legislative Primer
- What’s That? Glossary
- Browse Oklahoma legislation by subject
- Search Oklahoma legislation
- Look up current Oklahoma laws
- Look up Oklahoma agency rules
- See key bills identified by OK Policy
Advanced Googling for Fun and Profit
- Search for a specific phrase with quotes – “wind blows sweeping down the plain”
- Search for one thing or another – sanction OR enforcement
- Search for results that don’t include a specific word with the hyphen/subtraction sign – “Chocolate cake” -butter
- Search by site – site:okpolicy.org
- Find similar sites – related:okpolicy.org
- Search by filetype (ppt, xls, mdb, pdf, etc.) – filetype:xls
- Combine them! – site:ok.gov/doc filetype:xls
- Designate where search terms appear (in the url, title, body of the page and in links to the page)
–allinurl: oklahoma data
–allintitle: oklahoma data
–allintext: oklahoma data
–allinanchor: oklahoma data - Search by image
(But seriously, don’t type out this link. Do a Google search for “Google search by image.”) - Search the news
