 Hi! This is Jessica Hagman with the Ohio University Libraries. In this video I'm going to show you how to find data and statistics with the Statista website. To get to Statista you'll want to go to the OU Libraries homepage and then click on the Databases tab to do a search for Statista. This one result is the one we need so we're going to click on the link for the website. At this point if you're off campus before you get to the website you would be asked to log in with your Ohio ID and password. Statista has a search box right on the homepage where you can search for whatever topic you're researching. You can also scroll down to the bottom of the page and see statistics by industry so you can browse if you're not sure what kind of search term to use. I'm going to scroll back up to the top and do a search for college. You can see that it does give me some suggested search terms that I might use instead but I'm going to stick with college. Once you do your search you'll see that you have two different types of results, statistics which is data as you would expect and then studies and reports which I'm going to look at first. And I have some reports and studies here about college including a report on the economic value of different college majors. If I click on the title of one of these reports I go to a page that has some more information about it. It tells me where it comes from. This one's from the Center on Education and the Workforce and then I link to an external download. So this is where I can actually download a report and instead of being just numbers you'll often get a lot of other information here and maybe a lot of different kinds of data so these can be really useful as well. I'm going to go back to my search results and click on statistics. You can see there's 432 so a lot of different data here about colleges. I'm going to click on the first one about the expenditure of public and private colleges and universities. Once you click on the title of a statistic you'll actually go to a page where you'll see that data displayed. So here is a bar graph showing the expenditures from 1960 to 2010. I have some options on the left hand side to actually download the graph or to an image or to PowerPoint or even to Excel so you could do some data crunching if you needed to. You can change how the graph looks, see some related statistics, share the graph via different social media networks and then as you'll scroll down you'll see the statistic information and this is important to know because if you were going to use this in a speech or a paper for example you wouldn't want to cite statistic because it's kind of like Google and then it gets you to information but it's not a source of information in and of itself. The source of this information is actually the Census Bureau so if I was doing an APA citation for example the citation would probably look like Census Bureau comma 2011 instead of Statista 2011. So that's been a quick look at Statista. Remember that if you have any questions about Statista, finding data or any other information you can always go back to the OU Libraries homepage, click on the Ask Us link to get a chat box or click on the Need Help link to see other ways to get in touch with us. I hope this video was helpful. If you have any questions about finding data or any other information be sure to let us know.