Journalism

This page will help you get more out of your Library resources for your assignments, projects and dissertations in Journalism

This section lists resources for specific purposes.

Explore specialist statistical resources and market research reports.

• Eurostat 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union and its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.


fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Data about UK households collected by the UK Government.


• Ipsos MORI 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Go to the Political Monitor and Political Polling sections for UK public opinion data relevant to Politics courses.


Find statistics for local areas in the UK on a wide range of subjects, including population, crime, health and housing.


Detailed market research reports on a range of UK sectors including: automotive; beauty and personal care; lifestyles; drink, food and foodservice; health and wellbeing; leisure; media; technology; and travel. Also includes access to Mintel Trends which provides evidence-backed insights on how today's consumer thinks, feels and acts.

Video support:

Additional access instructions:

The first time you access will need need to tick the box to acknowledge you have read Mintel's permissions and prohibitions and then click Continue.


Access to more than a million statistics from many different sources. Useful for finding industrial, economic and consumer market statistical trends.


Authoritative data going back to 1878 from the United States Census Bureau. For earlier years data is available via PDF or Zip files but more recent years have Excel spreadsheets available to download.


fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Official statistics from the UK Government.


fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Use this site to help gather a large range of statistics, including detailed data on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).


• YouGov 

Public opinion from over 350,000 volunteers from across the UK.

 

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 Greta Friggens

Faculty Librarian

email greta.friggens@port.ac.uk