Datasets

These are some resources that can assist you in finding economic resources.

• Bureau of Labor Statistics You can find information on a variety of employment-related topics on the official website of The US Bureau of Labor and Statistics.
• Data.gov Available data and statistics from US government agencies. See Also Fedstats
• EconData.Net Data Collections 1,000 links to socioeconomic data sources, arranged by subject and provider.
• Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) FRED® is a database of over 246,000 US economic time series from 77 sources. With FRED®, you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series.
• National Bureau of Economic Research The nation’s leading nonprofit economic research organization. Key focus areas include developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, and analyzing the effects of public policy.
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  • OECD Stats OECD.Stat includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.
  • Panel Studies of Income Dynamics Nationally representative study of nearly 8,000 U.S. families. Following the same families since 1968, the PSID collects information on economic, health, and social behavior.
  • Pew Research Center Datasets
  • UNdata Offers free access to 60 million statistical records from 24 UN agencies. Searchable by keyword or browse by topic or country.
  • WorldBank Data The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resources.

• Research Data Gov (new in 2023) Web portal for discovering and requesting access to restricted microdata from federal statistical agencies.
• American Economic Association: Data Sources Provides links to some of the most useful and popular economics data sources, categorized by data type.
• Current Population Survey data – U.S. Census Current Population Survey, sponsored jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is the primary source of labor force statistics for the population of the U.S.
• The Economics Network Economic data is freely available online.
• General Social Survey (GSS)
• Google Dataset Search Find datasets stored across thousands of repositories on the Web.
• ICPSR – Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
• LIS Cross National Income Study
• National Bureau of Economic Research
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics
• Quandl Primarily covers time-series financial and economic data originating from exchanges, central banks, government agencies, and private companies. Much of the data (from 400 open databases) is available for free, but some data (from 20 premium databases) is only available by subscription.
• Resources for Economists on the Internet
• UN Comtrade Database
• UNIDO Statistics Data Portal UNIDO maintains a variety of databases comprising statistics of overall industrial growth, detailed data on business structure and statistics on major indicators of industrial performance by country in the historical time series.
• World Bank Open Data

Statistics

• AidData Offers a gateway to nearly 1 million records of development finance activities from donors around the world.
• BEA International Economic Accounts
• Consumer Price Index Produces monthly data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services.
• Current Industrial Reports Provide data that are used to satisfy economic policy needs and for market analysis, forecasting, and decision-making in the private sector.
• Data on the Net Search or browse listings of 363 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses, and more.
• EconData.Net Sponsored by the Economic Development Administration, EconData.Net is designed to help practitioners, researchers, students, and other data users quickly gain access to relevant state and sub-state socioeconomic data.
• Economic Indicators Provide economic information on gross domestic product, income, employment, production, business activity, prices, money, credit, security markets, Federal finance, and international statistics.
• Federal Reserve Board: Statistics Releases Provides releases and historical data.
• FRASER – Data & Statistics From the St. Louis Fed: Data Publications, as well as Statistical Releases from several sources such as the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and government agencies such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
• ILOSTAT The ILO’s database of statistics, contains over 100 indicators covering more than 230 countries and economies.
• The MacroDataGuide The MacroDataGuide is a tool that has been especially developed by the Norwegian Social Science Data Services to save researchers and students time and energy in their search for high quality social science macro data.
• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics – Databases, Tables & Calculators Includes the Consumer Price Index (CPI), and statistics on employment & unemployment statistics, pay & compensation cost data, spending, time use, productivity, workplace injuries, etc.
• United States Economy at a Glance Features statistics on unemployment, productivity, and consumer price index from the Bureau of Labor.
• Wharton Research Data Services Provides researchers worldwide with instant access to financial, economic, and marketing data through a uniform, web-based interface.