Government Information

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) website contains a wealth of information on research, statistics, and fact sheets that focus on family assistance, child support, child care, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families.

Head Start and Early Head Start are comprehensive child development programs that serve low-income children from birth to age 5, as well as pregnant women and their families. Website provides extensive links to research and statistics, publications, grant information, and more.

The HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) undertakes a variety of research and evaluation projects regarding issues affecting children. This website provides an extensive array of links to publications and research focusing on early childhood, children and welfare, and teen pregnancy.

Provides resources for parents and providers, information on grants and funding, and links to research and new initiatives relating to quality child care.

Site provides links to handbooks and fact sheets about child support, as well as links to state and local agencies, and related forms, reports, and policy documents.

OFA oversees the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program, created by the Welfare Reform Law of 1996. This website provides links related to TANF history, laws, Congressional reports, and other information.

Site provides a substantial array of links focusing on parenting issues, including becoming a parent, babies and preschoolers, child care, teens, and adoption.

The NIA's mission is to improve the health and well-being of older Americans through research. The agency's website provides links to health information, research programs, and funding and training.

The AoA website is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of a wide variety of topics, programs, and services relating to aging, including information for elders and their families, information for professionals, and links to grant programs.

The Special Committee on Aging serves as a focal point in the Senate for discussion and debate on matters related to older Americans. The site contains links to hearings, help with prescriptions, legislation tracking, and publications.

Site provides links to statistics relating to child care, child welfare, child support, and Head Start.

Demographic characteristics of households and families are collected annually in the March Current Population Survey (CPS) for the Nation.

Demographic characteristics of grandparents and grandchildren are collected annually in the March Current Population Survey (CPS) for the Nation.

This is the official website of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child & Family Statistics. The site provides easy access to federal and state statistics on children and their families, including population and family characteristics, health, and environmental and educational data.

Child care statistics from the Census Bureau.

Child support statistics from the Census Bureau.

Provides links to population statistics, characteristics of children, and several other statistical reports relating to children and their families.

This site provides statistics from child maltreatment reports from 1995-present.

A compilation of links to online statistical data and reports regarding the elderly population in the United States.

Population data by age and geographic area. Includes international statistics, as well as U.S., state, and county levels. Also includes special studies on specific groups, such as the elderly and baby boomers.

Agingstats.gov, created by the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics, provides comprehensive data and resources relating to aging.

This collection contains a wide variety of historical state and federal data related to the social sciences. Collections include: Children's Bureau publications, Rural Development Perspectives, and select historical demographic data.

The AHS collects data on the nation's housing, including apartments, single-family homes, mobile homes, vacant housing units, household characteristics, income, recent movers, and more.

Site provides links to Census-related housing topics, including home ownership data, housing affordability, and housing vacancy statistics.

The HUD website provides links to housing resources, communities, HUD grant programs, the housing industry, and more.

The CyberCemetery is an archive of government websites that have ceased operation (usually websites of defunct government agencies and commissions that have issued a final report). This collection features a variety of topics indicative of the broad nature of government information, including child protection, housing, and health.