EconGuru Economics Guide » Economic & Financial Data/Statistics Directories

EconGuru » Links » Data » Directories

U.S. Government

• U.S. Census Bureau

  http://www.census.gov/

  As the "Factfinder for the Nation," the Census Bureau collects data about the people and economy of the United States and produces a wide variety of statistical data. Included at their site is a variety of economic, geographic, and socioeconomic information.

• FedStats

  http://www.fedstats.gov/

  the gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies

Educational & Research

• LSE RLAB Data Service

  http://rlab.lse.ac.uk/data/default.asp

  a list of data resources in economics and other social areas, sorted by subject area, each subject area includes datasets and reference volumes held in the RLAB library, and a list of useful links

• Social Sciences Data Collection

  http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/

  Browse or search SSDC research data, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and data on the Internet.

• Statistics and Social Science Data

  http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/

  "The Geostat Center houses the University's collection of electronic statistical and social science data. The majority of resources are available on-line, but due to server space restrictions and/or licensing requirements, some electronic data are available only on CDs or DVDs, or are installed on Geostat computers in the library. " ...

• StatLib: Data Download

  http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownload&cid=2

  Searchable data archived for download include data and story library, data expo archive, datasets archive, and JASA data archive.

• WebEc Economics Data

  http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/webecc8d.html

  a comprehensive directory of economic data websites

• EDIRC Statistical Office

  http://edirc.repec.org/statoff.html

  economics departments, institutes and research centers in the world

• Access to Economic and Financial Data at Boston College

  http://fmwww.bc.edu/ec-p/data/ecfindata.php

  "A far from exhaustive list of sources of machine-readable data"

• NBER Data

  http://www.nber.org/data/

  a list of links to dozens of specific areas of data

Other Organizations

• Library of Economics and Liberty: Data and Research

  http://www.econlib.org/library/data.html

  U.S. data sources, world data sources, journals, working papers, and institutions

• American Stastical Association: B&E DataLinks

  http://www.econ-datalinks.org/

  provides links to econ & financial data sources of interest to economists and business statisticians