How well are NYC’s agencies performing? Look to Citywide Performance Reporting (CPR) for a collection of performance measures from more than 40 city agencies. Search by agency or citywide theme to get performance measures data tables and pie charts. New data is added once a month. […]
Category: Statistics & Data
Labor Day Stats
Did you know: the first observance of Labor Day is believed to have been a parade of 10,000 workers on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City? the mean travel time to work for New Yorkers is 39.2 minutes? there are currently 153.2 million people 16 and older in the nation’s labor force? Find these […]
NYT & WNYC to Launch SchoolBook
A new project – SchoolBook – will launch on September 7th, 2011 – a collaboration of the New York Times and WNYC, which will be a site offering daily news, data, and discussion about New York City schools, including customized pages for each of the 1,700 pubic schools and 800 private schools in the city. […]
NYC Land Use – Fast Facts
NYC Land Use – Fast Facts – did you know that: Brooklyn leads the 5 boroughs in multi-family residential land use Queens has more lot area for parking than any other borough Manhattan devotes 25.4% of its land use to open spaces Find these and other land use fast facts at the Department of City […]
SeeThroughNY – Salary Information for New York City and State Employees
The Empire Center for New York State Policy now provides a database tool through the SeeThroughNY network where you can look up salary information for New York City Government, State Government, and Public Authority payrolls. Click on SeeThroughNY to use the tool; database is searchable by name Title, Branch or Entity, Agency and Subagency. Data […]
Back to School Stats
Did you know: the average number of children participating each month in the National School Lunch Program in 2009 was 31.3 million? the number of classroom computers in the nation’s schools in 2005-2006 was 14.2 million (or one computer for every four students)? the per-pupil expenditure on public elementary and secondary education nationally in 2009 […]
Who Owns the Media?
Did you know that News Corporation has over 15.5 million unique monthly visitors to their websites, The Washington Post over 10 million, and Yahoo! News over 40 million? Find these statistics and more at Who Owns the News Media from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, an interactive database of companies that […]
What’s dominating the news? Pew has the answer!
Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism tracks mainstream media coverage so you can see what’s dominating the news. Check out Pew’s News Coverage Index for additional dates and details of news coverage information, going back to 2007. […]