The share of American households owning at least one firearm has remained relatively steady since 1972, hovering between ** percent and ** percent. In 2024, about ** percent of U.S. households had at least one gun in their possession. Additional information on firearms in the United States Firearms command a higher degree of cultural significance in the United States than any other country in the world. Since the inclusion of the right to bear arms in the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, firearms have held symbolic power beyond their already obvious material power. Despite many Americans being proud gun-owners, a large movement exists within the country in opposition to the freedom afforded to those in possession of these potentially deadly weapons. Those opposed to current gun regulation have sourced their anger from the large number of deaths due to firearms in the country, as well as the high frequency of gun violence apparent in comparison to other developed countries. Furthermore, the United States has fallen victim to a number of mass shootings in the last two decades, most of which have raised questions over the ease at which a person can obtain a firearm. Although this movement holds a significant position in the public political discourse of the United States, meaningful change regarding the legislation dictating the ownership of firearms has not occurred. Critics have pointed to the influence possessed by the National Rifle Association through their lobbying of public officials. The National Rifle Association also lobbies for the interests of firearm manufacturing in the United States, which has continued to rise since a fall in the early 2000s.

This dataset includes average domestic itinerary airfares for the top 100 U.S. Airports. Time periods include 4Q 2000, 4Q 2004, 4Q 2005, 4Q 2006, 4Q 2007. Percent changes for 2000-2007 and 2006-2007 are also included.

Firearms background checks for the USA for 2012 (Jan-Nov) and since 1999.These statistics represent the number of firearm background checks initiated through the NICS. They do not represent the number of firearms sold. NICS is used by Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) to instantly determine whether a prospective buyer is eligible to buy firearms or explosives. Before ringing up the sale, cashiers call in a check to the FBI or to other designated agencies to ensure that each customer does not have a criminal record or isn't otherwise ineligible to make a purchase. More than 100 million such checks have been made in the last decade, leading to more than 700,000 denials. More information on NICS - http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics Some really useful informations such as the rate of checks per 1000 people. All data is provided by state. Downloaded from the Guardian Datablog - http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/dec/17/how-many-guns-us and then joined to USA States data http://geocommons.com/overlays/21424. Gun data originally from FBI http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics. GIS vector data. This dataset was first accessioned in the EDINA ShareGeo Open repository on 2012-12-17 and migrated to Edinburgh DataShare on 2017-02-21.

This dataset shows the comparison between the amount of spending that was spent on higher education and corrections by each state in the United States from 1987 to 2007. This data was brought to our attention by the Pew Charitable Trusts in their report titled, "One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008." The main emphasis of the article emphasizes the point that in 2007 1 in every 100 Americans were in prison. To note: Many states have not completed their data verification process. Final published figures may differ slightly. The District of Columbia is not included. D.C. prisoners were transferred to federal custody in 2001

This dataset shows the number of people that are in prison by state in 2006 and 2007. These numbers are then compared to show the difference between the two years and a percentage of change is given as well. This data was brought to our attention by the Pew Charitable Trusts in their report titled, One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008."" The main emphasis of the article emphasizes the point that in 2007 1 in every 100 Americans were in prison. To note: Many states have not completed their data verification process. Final published figures may differ slightly. The District of Columbia is not included. D.C. prisoners were transferred to federal custody in 2001

This dataset shows the hometowns of US Olympic Gold medal winners by their Sport. This dataset show All Americans who have won Gold Medals in 'Athletics', which is the classification for Track and Field events and others. Data was found online at Wikipedia, and it isn't perfect. i was able to geocode about 100 of the almost 150 gold medalists. Source URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Olympic_gold_medalists_for_the_United_States

This dataset shows the amount of money that each state spent on their Corrections program both in percentage of the Overall amount of money spent in the State and as a total amount of money. This data was brought to our attention by the Pew Charitable Trusts in their report titled, One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008. The main emphasis of the article emphasizes the point that in 2007 1 in every 100 Americans were in prison. To note: The District of Columbia is not included. D.C. prisoners were transferred to federal custody in 2001.

This dataset shows the percentage of State Employees that work in Corrections by state in the year 2006. This data was brought to our attention by the Pew Charitable Trusts in their report titled, One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008. The main emphasis of the article emphasizes the point that in 2007 1 in every 100 Americans were in prison. To note: The District of Columbia is not included. D.C. prisoners were transferred to federal custody in 2001

This Data set is from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey of the United States. "The Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the worlds largest, on-going telephone health survey system, tracking health conditions and risk behaviors in the United States yearly since 1984. Conducted by the 50 state health departments as well as those in the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands with support from the CDC, BRFSS provides state-specific information about issues such as asthma, diabetes, health care access, alcohol use, hypertension, obesity, cancer screening, nutrition and physical activity, tobacco use, and more." (http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/index.htm) Data URL: http://www.cdc.gov/brfss/maps/gis_data.htm All values a percentage from 0-100

This Dataset shows the Alexa Top 100 International Websites, and provides metrics on the volume of traffic that these sites were able to handle. The Alexa top 100 lists the 100 most visited websites in the world and measures various statistical information. I have looked up the Headquarters, either through alexa, or a Whois Lookup to get street address with i was then able to geocode. I was only able to successfully geocode 85 of the top 100 sites throughout the world. Source of Data was Alexa.com, Source URL: http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_sites?ts_mode=global&lang=none Data was from October 12, 2007. Alexa is updated daily so to get more up to date information visit their site directly. they don't have maps though.

This dataset displays all the Home Depot locations as of 6.23.2008. This dataset was created to help in the relief of the recent floods that have ravaged Iowa City in June of 2008. The data comes from the website of Home Depot at homedepot.com and the lat/lons were obtained by geocoding the location's street address.

This dataset shows the locations of the 100 companies that had the greatest revenue increase from 2005 to 2006 that are among the Fortune Global 500 for 2006. The list comes from cnnmoney.com whose Fortune section does analysis on the top corporations throughout the world

The ICP data collection was conducted in 100 economies, divided into five regions, and when combined with a Eurostat-OECD PPP program, brings the total to 146 economies. The principal outputs of the ICP are estimates of Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs) benchmarked to the year 2005. The new PPPs replace previous benchmark estimates, some dating back to the 1980s. The preliminary global ICP report provides information on gross domestic product (GDP), GDP per capita, household consumption, collective government consumption, and capital formation for all 146 economies. These estimates are derived from PPPs based upon national surveys that priced nearly 1,000 products and services. Comparative price levels are also included. (The figures in this dataset are all in current US $ as of 2005)

HAZUS is an abbreviation for Hazards United States, and was developed by FEMA. The HAZUS dataset was designed to estimate the potential physical, economic and social losses during hazardous events such as flooding or earthquakes. To measure the social impact of these events, HAZUS includes detailed demographic data for the United States. This dataset pulls out the income range data from the demographic files, at the census block level for the Kentucky section of the Cincinnati, Ohio Metropolitan Statistic Area (MSA). Income attributes include; incomes under $10k, incomes from $10k-$20k, $20k-$30k, and so on up until income of $100k+. Demographics data was recent as of May 2006.

This dataset explores Education price index, by province in Canada for 1999 - 2003. This dataset is for elementary and secondary eduction. * 1992 = 100 for the purposes of this dataset. Source: Statistics Canada, CANSIM tables (for fee) 478-0013 and 326-0002, and Catalogue no. 81-229-X. Last Modified: 2007-06-19.

The NC Center for Geographic Information and Analysis developed the GIS data set, Type A Current Public Water Systems, as mapped by contractors to the NC Rural Center (engineering firms McGill & Associates and Hobbs, Upchurch & Associates) during 2004, 2005, and 2006 to facilitate planning, siting and impact analysis in the 100 individual counties of North Carolina. This file enables the user to make various county-level determinations when used in conjunction with other data layers. The purpose of this data set is to inform users of key information about public water systems in North Carolina, with particular focus on system size and growth, water usage, water treatment, and capital improvement needs of the systems.

The NC Center for Geographic Information and Analysis developed the GIS data set, County Boundaries, as mapped by the US Geological Survey-Digital Line Graph Program to facilitate planning, siting and impact analysis in the 100 individual counties of North Carolina. This file enables the user to make various county-level determinations when used in conjunction with other data layers. This coverage does not include the shoreline but contains straight-lined boundaries of all of North Carolina's Counties. Another coverage exists which does include the shoreline. This data was created to assist governmental agencies and others in making resource management decisions through use of a Geographic Information System (GIS). For more information about this data got to cgia.state.nc.us

The NC Center for Geographic Information and Analysis developed the GIS data set, Type A Future Public Sewer Systems, as mapped by contractors to the NC Rural Center (engineering firms McGill & Associates and Hobbs, Upchurch & Associates) during 2004, 2005, and 2006 to facilitate planning, siting and impact analysis in the 100 individual counties of North Carolina. This file enables the user to make various county-level determinations when used in conjunction with other data layers. The purpose of this data set is to inform users of key information about public sewer systems in North Carolina, with particular focus on system size and growth, sewage discharge annd treatment, and capital improvement needs of the systems.