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Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Main index to research in sociology, anthropology, and related fields in the social and behavioral sciences. Covers 1963 - current. -
JSTOR This link opens in a new windowA digital archive of important scholarly journal literature from many fields. Most journals are included from their first issue until 5 years ago. Be sure to limit by discipline to keep results manageable. To do so, scroll below search boxes and select "Sociology".
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Social Sciences Citation Index This link opens in a new windowSearch through current and historical literature in the social sciences, and perform cited reference searching to see who has cite a particular document. Covers 1898 - current.
Note: To do cited reference searching, click on "cited reference search," fill in an author's last name and publication date, figure out which of the resulting list of citations match the work you're looking for, and then "finish search" to see who has cited that work. -
Policy File Index This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
Find reports on public policy topics from major think tanks, research organizations, and advocacy groups including the Hoover Institution, International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, RAND Corporation, and the World Bank. Covers 1990-current.
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AARP Research TopicsAARP Research does a variety of work to support AARP’s mission of helping people turn their goals and dreams into real possibilities, strengthening communities and fighting for the issues that matter most to all families. Key issues we study include Social Security, Medicare, long-term care and caregiving, work and job security, healthy living, technology, and relationships.
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Pew Research - Older Adults and AgingSurvey research and reports from Pew.
Tips
The term 'aging' is a good one to use when searching for statistics on this topic in combination with other more specific terms.
Look for the government agencies that publish data by age.
Many tables will be broken down "by age" but don't have aging in the title - tables don't have to be "about" aging to have relevant information.
Reports tend to have lots of statistics and findings from data analysis. Since they're usually published in PDF format, you can use a Google filter to find them.
aging prisoners site:.gov filetype:pdf
Or, to find reports at the state level:
aging prisoners site:.us filetype:pdf
