You can use Library Search to search for both print and eBooks as well as a range of other resources including articles, journals, and databases.
The Library uses the Dewey Decimal Classification scheme (Dewey for short) to arrange books and other resources on the shelves so you can locate them easily.
The vast majority of books relating to Social Statistics and related subjects can be found in the Main Library.
Subject Areas | Classmark(s) | Location |
Social sciences | 300 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Sociology and anthropology | 301 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Social interaction | 302 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Social processes | 303 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Factors affecting social behaviour | 304 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Groups of people | 305 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Culture and institutions | 306 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Communities | 307 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Social situation and conditions | 309 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Collections of general statistics | 310 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Social sciences - Statistics - Population | 312 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
General statistics of Europe | 314 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
General statistics of Asia | 315 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
General statistics of Africa | 316 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
General statistics of North America | 317 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
General statistics of South America | 318 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
General statistics of other areas | 319 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Civil and political rights | 323 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
The political process | 324 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
International migration and colonization | 325 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Labour economics | 331 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Social problems and services; associations | 360 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Social problems and services | 361 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Social problems and services to groups | 362 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Other social problems and services | 363 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Education | 370 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Numerical analysis | 518 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Probabilities and applied mathematics | 519 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 2 |
Geography and travel | 910 | Main Library - Blue Area - Floor 3 |
For help with finding your way around the Main Library, please use our new Interactive Map.
The Library provides access to numerous e-book collections that host many titles relating to Social Statistics and related subjects. Follow this link to browse different collections you can explore to find e-books relating to your studies.
If the Library doesn't already hold a copy of the book you need, fill in the Order a Book form and we will get it for you.
University staff should use the Order a Book (Staff) form.
Theses can be a valuable source of information for your research and are very useful points of reference for when you come to write your own thesis.
For detailed information on how to access theses from the University of Manchester, and from other universities in the UK and internationally, please visit our Theses Library Guide.
Doctoral/Research Theses
Theses from other UK/International Institutions
A searchable and browsable database of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day. It also offers full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text. Designated as an official offsite repository for the U.S. Library of Congress, PQDT Global offers comprehensive historic and ongoing coverage for North American works and significant and growing international coverage from a multiyear program of expanding partnerships with international universities and national associations.