Please suggestions about finding numbers (statistics, figures) about a certain topic that you have in mind but not if the numbers are available. For example, number of hours people spend deliberating about which career to choose vs the number of hours doing that career. Or number of hours people spend deliberating about which career to choose vs number of hours doing they deliberate for much much less important decisions like what clothes they should buy?How do I find numbers related to career deliberation? Both tips about the general "number finding" issue and the specific "career deliberation" issue are appreciated .
Dear Hashem,
Google has recently introduced "Dataset Search" a specialized search engine for finding open data sets in various scientific fields. With the right keywords you will be able to find the dataset which holds the data you are interested in. Keep in mind this will help you to find the data set (raw data), not figures or tables.
https://toolbox.google.com/datasetsearch
Cheers,
Aleksandar
email response from Paul Bradshaw (Birmingham uni) of onlinejournalismblog.com: " Hi Hashem, this is quite a broad question and so the answer is hard to give. There are many ways to find statistics/figures – for example using advanced search operators like site:ac.uk or filetype:xlsx will help you narrow your search, or specialist search engines like Zanran (which you mention) which focus on tables and charts. You can also try a two-step approach by first searching for organisations which are likely to collect that information (governmental, charities, academic, survey companies) and then approaching them. More broadly you can look at a system and identify which organisations collect which information within that system (e.g. Regulators do inspections, using gov.uk etc) In the specific example of career deliberation you may be best trying the two-step approach. It may be that recruitment companies have commissioned research of this type before, or you can access polling companies to find out if they’ve done anything on this.
Thanks,
Paul Bradshaw"
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