1. “Bibliografía Anotada de las Principales Fuentes de Estadísticas sobre América Latina,” by Tulio Hostilio Montenegro (Secretary General, Inter-American Statistical Institute; Director, Department of Statistics, Pan American Union) in Handbook of Latin American Studies, No. 29: Social Sciences, edited by Henry E. Adams (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1967). The article is concerned mainly with the post-World War II period; it is organized by country and gives sources and descriptions of data.

2. Bibliography of Selected Statistical Sources of the American Nations. A guide to the principal statistical materials of the twenty-two American nations, including data, analyses, methodology, and laws. Bibliografía de Fuentes Estadísticas de las Naciones Americanas. Una guía de los principales materiales estadísticos de las veinte dos naciones americanas, incluyendo datos, análisis, metodología y leyes y organización de los organismos de estadística. 1st ed. (Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Statistical Institute, May 1947). Available from Blaine Ethridge Books. Quarterly supplements to this bibliography appear in Estadística (see below). The bibliography supplements include statistical material drawn from journals and official publications reported in response to quarterly questionnaires and publications from other sources.

3. Estadística. Journal of the Inter-American Statistical Institute (Washington, D.C.: 1943–). Quarterly. Articles on statistical practices, and theory and methods; reports on the activities of the organization; news notes of government statistical offices and other statistical organizations; personal notes; bibliography.

4. Estadística, no. 107 (June 1970). “Publications of the IASI Secretariat—Publicaciones de la Secretaría del IASI”; provides background information on the development of statistics in the Western Hemisphere, particularly Latin America.

5. “Consolidated Index—Índice Consolidado,” Estadística (June 1954). Index covers articles and special feature material (1–11, nos. 1–41 [1943–45]). There are also indices to each volume of Estadística.

6. Costo de la Vida y Materias Afines: Lista de Referencias Bibliográficas Escogidas sobre Trabajos Metodológicos (Washington, D.C.: Union Panamericana, Instituto Interamericano de Estadística, 1955).

7. Directory of Statistical Personnel in the American Nations, 1949. With biographical information and appended list of statistical organizations. 4th ed. (Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Statistical Institute, 1949). 5th ed. (1955). Note: Biographical information for each person listed includes five significant publications or studies of which he is an author, with title, publication, publisher, date, etc., and if articles, the name of journal. Also available in Portuguese.

8. General Censuses and Vital Statistics in the Americas. An annotated bibliography of the historical censuses and current vital statistics of the twenty-one American Republics; the American Sections of the British Commonwealth of Nations; the American Colonies of Denmark, France, and the Netherlands; and the American Territories and Possessions of the United States. Prepared under the supervision of Irene B. Taeuber, Chief, Census Library Project (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1943). U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, U. S. Library of Congress, Reference Department. Available from Blaine Ethridge Books.

9. Statistical Activities of the American Nations, 1940. A compendium of the statistical services and activities in twenty-two nations of the Western Hemisphere, together with information concerning statistical personnel in those nations (Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Statistical Institute, 1941).

The Statistical Abstract of Latin America (1976) includes a review article “Quantitative Research on Latín America: An Inventory of Data Sets,” by Carl Deal. In addition to the inventory, he reports that the American Historical Association Newsletter will carry a new section on quantitative data, and notes the recent publication of the Roper Research Center Latin American Data Catalog (1976), which provides detailed information but is not indexed.

Finally, a number of recent articles provide comment on quantitative studies and bibliographies that have been highly praised and are quite useful to students and scholars. These include the following essays in Val R. Lorwin and Jacob M. Price, The Dimensions of the Past: Materials, Problems, and Opportunities for Quantitative Work in History (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1972); Juan J. Linz, “Five Centuries of Spanish History: Quantification and Comparison”; John. J. Te Paske, “Quantification in Latin American Colonial History”; and William Paul McGreevy, “Quantitative Research in Latin American History of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.”

Charles M. Dollar and Richard J. Jensen, Historian's Guide to Statistics and Quantitative Analysis and Historical Research (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971) provides an introduction to statistics, the use of computers, and an annotated bibliography.

In the articles mentioned, not all sources of quantitative data are, or can be listed. The most important omission is the retrospective section, for the 1930s onwards, of the Anuario Estadístico do Brasil, published by the Instituto Brasileiro Geografico e Estadístico. Similarly, Miguel Urrutia M. and Mario Arrubla (eds.), Compendio de Estadísticas Históricas de Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1970) deserve appreciative mention, as do the Mexican statistical publications of the Banco de Comercio Exterior, the Nacional Financiera, and El Colegio de México.