+ How to Embed Almost Anything in your Website (from Digital Inspiration)

Learn how to embed almost anything in your HTML web pages from Flash videos to Spreadsheets to high resolution photographs to static images from Google Maps and more.

+ EBRI Databook on Employee Benefits (from the Employment Benefit Research Institute)

• The EBRI Databook on Employee Benefits was first published in 1990.
• The EBRI Databook on Employee Benefits is maintained on-line and updated when new data is available. The date next to each chapter link indicates when data and/or links were last updated in that chapter.
• The EBRI Databook on Employee Benefits includes data from dozens of sources to provide a comprehensive analysis of how the employee benefits system works, who and what its various functions affect, and its relationship with the U.S. economy.
• The EBRI Databook includes over 400 tables and charts presenting vital statistics on the employee benefit system.
• Topics include the retirement income system; employer-sponsored benefit plans; government programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; health insurance; and labor force and demographic trends.
• Tables and charts are supplemented by explanatory text to provide detailed information on the entire range of employee benefit programs and work force related issues.
• The book is organized into four sections — overview, retirement programs, health programs, and other employee benefits, with an extensive appendix offering general economic and demographic statistics, a glossary of terms used in the book, a legislative history of employee benefit programs, reference guide listing sources for further research, and an index.

+ Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records — Apparently created for genealogists, this is useful to anyone looking for…people.

This website is a directory of links to websites with online death indexes, listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices & registers, obituaries, probate indexes, and cemetery & burial records. You can also find information here about searching the Social Security Death Index online.

+ Public Opinion Polls – Research Guide (University of Pennsylvania Libraries) — Note that some resources are accessible only to the U Penn academic community, but you may also find these resources at your library.

This guide describes resources and strategies useful for researching public opinion. In addition to identifying major reference works in print and electronic formats, sources available to Penn students, faculty, and staff for public opinion aggregate data and microdata are presented.

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