Rutgers Data Book Expands Government Information Database

On May 24, 2016

The Rutgers Center for Government Services, a unit of the Rutgers Division of Continuing Studies, has expanded its New Jersey Data Book by adding new categories and years of public information about the state – all of it available as an online database.

The New Jersey Data Book, published in print for 40 years, now is the most comprehensive online source of official, current statistics and information about the nation’s 11th-most populous state.

Newly added to the New Jersey Data Book are data sets on preschool population, food assistance, unemployment and crime in the state’s 565 municipalities. Additionally, years of information were added to existing data sets such as area/density, population, poverty, crime, employment, housing, fiscal resources, government expenditures, property tax burden, voters and turnout, election results, forms of government, and school data. Also new, the Data Book organizes data by county and legislative district.

Published online since 2014, the database has been updated and is searchable for data beginning in 1980. Data can be downloaded.

“The New Jersey Data Book represents the most comprehensive web-based source of statistics and information about New Jersey government,” said Richard J. Novak, vice president of continuing studies and distance learning at Rutgers. “That fulfills an important part of the mission of Rutgers: performing public service in support of the needs of the citizens of the state and its local, county and state governments.”

Example of New Jersey Data Book: Key Election Information, State of New Jersey

SOURCE: NJDatabook.rutgers.edu

Voters & Turnout: The New Jersey Data Book includes the number of persons registered to vote in the year, the percentage this number forms of the year’s estimated population, the percentage of such voters reported as Democrats or Republicans, and voter turnout.

Registered Voters

1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012
data not available	4,072,617	4,011,077	4,059,447	4,315,822	4,698,043	5,009,140	5,378,792	5,505,212

 

Registered Voters as % of Population

1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012
data not available	54.19%	51.95%	51.91%	53.89%	55.83%	data not available	61.95%	62.11%

 

% Democrats

1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012
data not available	data not available	data not available	28.80%	25.36%	24.94%	23.44%	33.63%	32.58%

 

% Republicans

1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012
data not available	data not available	data not available	20.03%	19.99%	18.50%	17.75%	19.80%	19.80%

 

Percentage Voter Turnout

1980	1984	1988	1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012
data not available	78.81%	77.11%	82.47%	68.23%	68.47%	72.43%	72.69%	66.79%

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