This guide will help you locate engineering-related data and statistics.
1. Who are your sources? Who might collect the data?
Government agency?
Nonprofit/nongovernmental organization?
Businesses?
Academic researchers?
2. Look for publications that cite the dataset
Repositories, scholarly articles, government reports, etc.
3. Do your search.
Is it freely available on the web?
Does the library already subscribe as part of a package?
Can it be requested directly from the source?