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- Government publications are often a rich source for
economic data and analysis. Check the
Government
Information Resources page for more coverage.
Electronic Data Sources and Publications
Use the following links to connect to online sources of
statistics and documents relevant to economics. In addition, much
data is only available, or is more convenient to use, on CD-ROM.
Electronic Data Sources and Publications: General and International
- Agricultural
Market Access Database downloadable data on worldwide
agricultural tariffs and imports
- B
& E datalinks links to business and economic data from
the American Statistical Association
- Bank
for International Settlements publishes international banking
and financial statistics
- Business
and Economics Numeric Data (Schankman)
- Business
Research Guide (RUL Business Research Guide)
- Central
Banks links from the World Bank/IMF library
- CEPR
Data from the Centre for Economic Policy Research, including
international trade and investment data
- CIA
Handbook of International Economic Statistics (Central
Intelligence Agency)
- CIA
World Factbook
- CIESIN
(Center
for International Earth Science Information Network) - multiple
highly interactive database projects including social indicators
of development, China GIS data, and more.
- CIAO
Columbia International Affairs Online - working papers,
conference proceedings, and research reports on international
affairs. Includes information from American Enterprise Institute,
Brookings Institution, Cato Institute, London School of
Economics, and more.
- Corruption
Perception Index (Internet Center for Corruption Research)
- Country
Studies (Library of Congress)
- Cross-National
Time Series provides access to the data from over 250
countries, over 200 series and data beginning in the year 1815.
- Development
Gateway
- Development
Goals targets for development, poverty reduction, etc.
- EconData
and Links (Shaw)
- Economagic
numerous collected data and statistics
- Economic
Growth Data Sets (Temple)
- Economic
History Services (EH.net) data series in economic history
- Economist
Magazine Country Briefings news, facts, and statistics
- Financial
Data Finder (Ohio State University)
- Financial
Data Sources (RUL Business Resources)
- Food
and Agriculture Organization Statistics (FAO)
- Foreign
Exchange Converter and Calculator
- Foreign
Exchange Converter and Calculator (OANDA)
- Foreign
Exchange Daily Rates - Historical (OANDA)
- Foreign
Exhange Daily and Historical Rates (PACIFIC)
- Foreign
Labor Statistics (Census Bureau)
- G8
Summit Online
- G8
Information Center
- GenderStats
database of gender statistics from the World Bank
- Geohive
easy access to general information on world population and
economy. Interesting country and city rankings.
- Global
Financial Data
the most complete collection of historical and current financial
and economic data available in the world. Covering more than 150
different countries, it provides over 6000 different data series
for download or charting.
- Globe
Server (geographical data)
- Heritage
Foundation Index of Economic Freedom descriptions of
country's economic environment, along with interactive form
allows retrieval of data from 1995 on for each country
- ICPSR
(Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
large collection of data from previously published academic
studies. Includes Topical
Archive of Datasets
- InfoNation
(database for comparing UN member nations)
- INSEAD
Knowledge (registration required) commentary and articles
from one of Europe's leading business schools on various topics
- International
Data Base (Census Bureau) includes world population
projections
- International
Development Virtual Library
- International
Finance and Development (e-book from U of Iowa)
- International
Finance Corporation (IFC) publications
- International
Financial Statistics (IMF)
contains detailed financial and macroeconomic statistics for many
countries, from 1945 to the present, updated monthly.
- International
Labour Organization includes
- International
Monetary Fund (IMF) publications
include Staff Country Reports, World Economic Outlook, Annual
Report, International Capital Markets, Working Papers, and more.
IMF International Financial Statistics are available on CD-ROM at
the SCC Data Center.
- International
Monetary Fund's Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board
(IMF
DSBB) describes methodology, frequency, and publication methods
for many countries' economic data.
- International
Monetary Fund's Multilingual Terminology Directory financial
terms translated
- Integrated
Public Use Microdata Sample (IPUMS) - International new
project to collect international panel data
- International
Trade Administration (ITA) US Dept. of Commerce
- International
Trade Centre (UNCTAD) infobases include trade data from
COMTRADE.
- International
Trade Law Treaties (Lexmercatoria)
- International
Trade Statistics (Census Bureau)
- Joint
BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank statistics on external debt
- Journal
of Applied Econometrics Datasets
- LexisNexis
Statistical
searchable database of statistics, covering major international,
US, and other sources
- Luxembourg
Income Study and the Luxembourg Employment Study are both
cross-national studies of income and employment
- Medieval
and Early Modern Database (MEMDB) Rutgers database of
historical economic data
- Mortality
Database (World Health Organization)
- National
Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Data includes
Jones-Obstfeld savings and investment data, Feenstra trade data,
Sabelhaus consumer expediture survey extracts, pre-WWII macro
database, and more.
- National
Bureau of Economic Research Macrohistory Database
- Nationmaster
interactive mapping and ranking of current country data from a
diverse range of sources
- Numeric
Data Guide (SCC) searchable numeric data guide from the
Rutgers University Libraries Scholarly Communication Center
- Office
of Population Research Data Archive (Princeton)
- Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has many
online documents and statistics. See SourceOECD
for full access to subscribed publications.
- Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD-Washington,
DC)
- Penn
World Tables (University of Toronto)
- Polling
the Nations searchable international poll results from a
variety of sources
- Population
Reference Bureau's DataFinder
- PovertyNet
(World Bank) includes Poverty Monitoring Database
- Sectoral
and Trade Barriers Database developed by the EU, reports on
trade barriers in more than 50 countries
- SICE
Foreign Trade Information System of the OAS
- Social
Science Data Center: Scholarly Communication Center
(Alexander Library, Rutgers University) includes web-accessible
data.
- Social
Science Data on the Net (University of California, San Diego)
Search or browse. With excellent annotations.
- SOSIG
searchable links to social science information on the web.
- SourceOECD
comprehensive
database of OECD publications and statistics
- Statistical
Resources on the Web (comprehensive and well organized)
- Stock
and Commodity Exchanges (RUL Business Resources)
- Sustainable
Rural Development Information System (SRDIS) data on natural
resources, economy, and environment.
- Time
Series Data Library Rob Hyndman's collection of over 500 time
series organized by subject
- Topics
in Development (World Bank) Browse World Bank publications
and data by topic.
- TradePort
country-level information on international trade
- TRAINS
UNCTAD Trade Analysis and Information System with data on
worldwide imports, exports, and tariffs.
- Transparency
International includes data on corruption around the world
- United
Nations Development Programme Data
- United
Nations Development Programme Publications Including Human
Development Report
- United
Nations Public Adminstration Network reports and data on
governments worldwide
- United
Nations Statistical Databases Online
- United
Nations Statistical Division Common Database
(UNSTATS) over 300 historical data series
- United
Nations Statistics Division
- United
Nations Survey of Crime
- United
Nations Treaty Collection
- University
of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP) includes downloadable
Theil statistics for countries worldwide.
- WebEc
Economics Data
- World
Bank data and
publications.
The full version of Global Development Finance is available on
CD-ROM at the SCC Data Center.
- World
Bank Economic Research includes link to datasets
- World
Bank: Living Standards Measurement Study of The World Bank
- World
Development Indicators (World Bank)
Complete coverage of major indicators from 1960 to the present
for all countries tracked by the World Bank.
- World
Economic Forum produces the Global Competitiveness Report,
Global Information Technology report, and others.
- World
Federation of Exchanges contains data on market
capitalization and trading activity on many world stock markets.
- World
Health Organization publications
including World Health Report
- World
Income Inequality Database (UNDP) data from 1950 on
- World
Resources Institute produces datasets and publications on the
environment, along with their Earthtrends
information portal.
Electronic Data Sources and Publications: United States
- 1990
Census Public Use Microdata Samples: PUMS (University of
Virginia)
- Agricultural
Economics and Statistics System USDA data hosted by Cornell
- Agricultural
Market Virtual Library (Michigan State University)
- Agricultural
Statistics (USDA)
- Agriculture
(Census Bureau) last census was 1992. For current data see USDA
sites.
- American
Community Survey (Census Bureau)
- American
Factfinder (Census Bureau) interactive access to Economic
Census, Census 2000, American Community Survey, and more
- Atlas
of United States Presidential Elections
- Bureau
of Economic Analysis GDP, trade, regional data and more
- Bureau
of Labor Statistics Unemployment, inflation, Occupational
Outlook Handbook, etc. Check out US
Economy at a glance
- Bureau
of Transportation Statistics
- CenStats
(Census Bureau) includes Annual Survey of Manufactures, Building
Permits, Census Tract Street Locator, Consolidated Federal Funds
Report, County Business Patterns, International Trade Data,
Occupation by Race and Sex, USA Counties, and Zip Business
Patterns.
- Census
Bureau Main Page
- Census
Historical Poverty Data (Census Bureau)
- Census
of Agriculture (USDA)
- Censusscope.org
census data charted, demystified, and explained
- Chemical
Scorecard (Environmental Defense Fund)
- CIESIN
Demographic Data Viewer interactive mapping of 1990 Census
Data down to the tract level.
- Commerce
Department includes Economics and Statistics Administration
and Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Community
Tracking Study (Center for Studying Health System Change)
community and household level survey data on local health care
systems
- Conference
Board Consumer Confidence Index and more
- Consolidated
Federal Funds Report, 1993- (Census Bureau)
- Consumer
Price Index (Bureau of Labor Statistics News Releases)
- Consumer
Price Index Calculation Machine (1913- , 1800- estimated)
Inflation
- Consumer
Price Index Chart (1665- ) Inflation estimates
- Consumer
Price Indexes (Bureau of Labor Statistics) Inflation
- Cost
of Living Calculator over time in one metro area
- Cost
of Living Calculator (Money Magazine) compare two cities,
based on ACCRA data
- Council
of Economic Advisers no longer actively posting data
- County
and City Data Book (1988 and 1994)
- County
Business Patterns (Census Bureau)
- County
Business Patterns (Social Science Data Center, University of
Virginia)
- Criminal
Justice Statistics
- CRSP
Center for Research in Security Prices
- CRSP
Guides and Analysis
- Current
Population Survey (Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor
Statistics)
- DataZone
(Economic Policy Institute) Quarterly wage and employment series
- Dow
Jones Industrial Average (1900-1993)
- Ecomp
Executive Compensation Database current pay for US corporate
execs
- Econdata.Net
links to sources of US regional economic data
- Economic
Data
(Census Bureau) includes Economic
Census and Annual Survey of Manufactures
- Economic
Indicators (Census Bureau)
- EconomicIndicators.gov
all releases of economic indicators from Census and BEA
- Economic
Report of the President
- Economics
Research Service (Department of Agriculture) includes FATUS
Foreign Agricultural Trade Briefing Room.
- Economics
Statistics Briefing Room
(White House) excellent source for the latest economic indicators
- Education
Statistics (Department of Education)
- Energy
Information Administration (Department of Energy)
- Energy.gov
(Dept. of Energy) includes prices, trends, and energy forecasts
- Execucomp
data from Standard & Poor's on executive compensation,
including historical data (Rutgers Restricted)
- Export.gov
US government export portal, includes market research library on
foreign countries
- FAS
Online export-import data from the Foreign Agricultural
Service's U.S. Trade Internet System
- FBI
Uniform Crime Reports
- Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) auctions data and papers
- Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) includes current and
historical banking statistics
- Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation's Statistics on Depository
Institutions
- Federal
Election Commission includes financial information about
candidates, parties, and PACs
- Federal
Reserve Banks (Atlanta,
Boston, Chicago,
Cleveland, Dallas,
Kansas City, Minneapolis,
New York, Philadelphia,
Richmond, St.
Louis, San Francisco)
- Federal
Reserve Beige Book summaries by Federal Reserve Districts of
regional economic conditions
- Federal
Reserve Board of Governors
- Federal
Reserve Statistical Releases includes Household Debt-Service
Burden
- Federal
Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances a triennial survey of the
balance sheet, pension, income, and other demographic
characteristics of U.S. families
- FedStats
(collected searchable federal statistics)
- FRASER
(Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research) very
comprehensive collection of scanned documents containing economic
statistics, from 1896 forward. Complements FRED.
- FRED
II (Federal Reserve Economic Data) downloadable historical
data, including primary credit rate (formerly discount rate).
The primary archive for Fed statistics.
- Gallup
Organization polling data
- General
Social Survey (ICPSR/NORC)
- General
Social Survey, 1972-1996 (University of California, San
Diego)
- GPO
Access Many US government publications, including Economic
Report of the President and Budget of the United States
- Historical
Demographic, Economic and Social Data for the United States,
1790-1970
- Health
and Retirement Study (U Michigan) longitudinal studies of
retirement, aging, and health
- ICPSR
(Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
large collection of data from previously published academic
studies. FastTrack
Data List (listings not yet in the Archive Database)
- Immigration
Statistics (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services)
- Income
Data (Census Bureau)
- Inflation
calculator 1800-1999 for the US, with links to other
inflation calculators for Italy and Canada
- Integrated
Public Use Microdata Sample (IPUMS)
panel data from Census 1850-1990
- Interest
Rates (Federal Reserve) daily update and historical downloads
- Iowa
Electronic Markets political futures markets
- Joint
Economic Committee (US Congress) includes economic indicators
- Medical
Expenditure Panel Survey (AHRQ - Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality)
- Migration
Data (Census Bureau)
- Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Report
- National
Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Data includes
Jones-Obstfeld savings and investment data, Feenstra trade data,
Sabelhaus consumer expediture survey extracts, pre-WWII macro
database, and more.
- National
Bureau of Economic Research Macrohistory Database
- National
Center for Health Care Statistics includes browsable
statistics and downloadable
public access data sets on vital statistics and health care
- National
Criminal Justice Reference Service Statistics
- National
Federal Budget Simulation
- National
Income and Product Accounts
- New
Jersey Labor Market Information (WNJPIN)
- New
Jersey State Data Center
- New
York State Data Center
- North
American Industry Classification System (NAICS) see also
NAICS
Clearinghouse (Boettcher)
- North
American Social Science Data Archive (CESSDA)
- O*Net
Online Department of Labor's database of occupational
information
- Panel
Study on Income Dynamics (University of Michigan)
- PollingReport.com
(public opinion polls)
- Population
of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Areas in the United
States: 1790-1990
- Poverty
Statistics (Census Bureau)
- Record
of American Democracy Data 1984-1990. Includes election
returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic measures of the
American public at unusually low levels of geographic
aggregation.
- Regional
Economic Information Service: 1969- The REIS database
provides local area economic data for states, counties, and
metropolitan areas for 1969-1998. Statistics in the data base
include: personal income and earning variables, full and part
employment variables, transfer payments v ariables, and farm
income and expenses variables
- Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC)
- Social
Science Data Analysis Network (University of Michigan)
selected US Census data
- Social
Science Electronic Data Library large health and social
science datasets for the US.
- Social
Security Administration: Office of Policy includes
statistical reports
- Standard
Industrial Classification (SIC) Code (four digits) superseded
by NAICS
North American Industry Classification System
- State
and Local Government Expenditure and Financial Data (Census
Bureau) includes Federal Expenditures by state
- State
and Local Personal Income (Bureau of Economic Analysis)
- State
of the Nation's Cities: A Comprehensive Database on American
Cities and Suburbs (Rutgers University)
- Statistical
Abstract of the United States
- Study
of American Families, 1994 (University of Wisconsin)
- Tax
Stats (Internal Revenue Service)
- Trade
and Development Agency - US (TDA) includes current
import-export news.
- Trade
Statistics (Office of Trade and Economic Analysis) includes
state and metropolitan exports
- Treasury
Dept includes Office of
Foreign Assets Control
- University
of Wisconsin Survey of Economic Expectations
- USDA
Economics and Statistics (Cornell)
- USDA
National Agricultural Statistics Service
- US
Government Documents Ready Reference Collection Extensive
links to gov.docs
- US
Commercial Service includes market research library on
foreign countries
- US
International Trade Commission includes tariff database
- US Trade Representative
Electronic Data Sources and Publications: Other Regional and National Sites
Electronic Data Sources and Publications: CD-ROM data sources
Many CD-ROMs are located in the Scholarly Communication
Center's Data Center. See the SCC
page for further information. The Alexander Library government
documents collection also has numerous data sources on CD. See the
searchable
index to Alexander CD-ROMs for further information. Selected
CD-ROMs are described below.
- Global Development Finance
(SCC Data Center) - financial flows for developing countries
- International Financial
Statistics (SCC Data Center) - the most detailed source of
global financial statistics
- International Statistical
Yearbook (SCC Data Center) - compilation of international
statistics from several major sources, inlcuding Eurostat and
Deutsche Bundesbank
- OECD Statistical Compendium
(SCC Data Center) - detailed statistics for OECD countries
- TradeCan (SCC Data
Center) - statistics on international trade
- Wistat (SCC Data
Center) - Women's Indicators and Statistics from the United
Nations
- World Development Indicators (SCC Data Center) -
extensive socioeconomic data from 1960 onward for almost all
countries
Electronic Journals
For current links to electronic journals, consult the
Electronic Journal Lists
To locate electronic journals in economics and business, use
Bel
Jour (Business and Economics Locator for JOUrnals at
Rutgers). Bel Jour
is a searchable index to online full-text journals in business and
economics. You can also use Bel Jour to locate
descriptive information about a journal, such as dates of online
coverage, and indexing and citation information. The current
edition of Bel Jour is not being actively maintained, so
some links may not work correctly. A revised version of Bel
Jour is under development.
Working Papers
Working papers report research findings well in advance of
formal publication. Working papers are published by research
organizations such as the NBER and CEPR, as well as by academic
departments and nongovernmental organizations. The links below
should help you to locate working papers available electronically.
For sites not listed here, try EDIRC,
a directory of economics institutes and research centers, or the
Organizations
page.
- AgEcon
Search (University of Minnesota)
- CEPR
Centre for Economic Policy Research (UK) -- online discussion
papers and other publications
- CIAO
Columbia International Affairs Online - working papers,
conference proceedings, and research reports on international
affairs. Includes information from American Enterprise Institute,
Brookings Institution, Cato Institute, London School of
Economics, and more.
- EconPapers
search RePEc archives of working papers
- Economics
Working Paper Archive (Washington University)
- IDEAS
(Internet Documents in Economics Access Service)
- Inomics
browsable list of institutes and publications producing working
papers, with links to papers
- NBER
Working Papers
(latest working papers from the National Bureau of Economic
Research)
- NBER
Working Papers (search engine)
- NetEc
(BibEc, HopEc, JokEc, WebEc, and WoPEc)
- RePEc
Full text research papers in Economics from EconWPA, Fed in
Print, NBER, CEPR as well as over 100 other archives. Access
through IDEAS or EconPapers
- Rutgers
University-New Brunswick, Department of Economics Working Papers
(search engine)
- Social
Science Research Network
- Socionet.ru
Working paper archive of Russian social science research
- TEKTRAN
(Department of Agriculture)
- World
Bank/IMF Library direct links to working papers from major
agencies and academic departments
Topical Web Guides
The following sites are reasonably comprehensive collections of
information on particular topics in economics.
- Agricultural
and Applied Economics Resources on the Internet
- AmosWEB
numerous collections of economic information, including
statistics, glossary, and instructional materials
- Banks
and Financial Services (RUL Business Research Guide)
- Biodiversity
Economics
- Coin
Flipping (White)
- Comparative
chronology of money based on the book A History of Money
by Glyn Davies
- Consultative
Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) includes searchable index
to publications in microfinance
- Damage
Valuation environmental damage and cost valuation web site,
with docs and glossary of environmental economics terms.
- EcEd
Resources for Economic Education. Includes links to educational
software, sites, web courses, and data.
- Economic
GLOSS*arama glossary of economics terminology from AmosWEB
- Economic
Literacy Project (Minneapolis Fed)
- Economics
Growth Resources (Temple: Oxford University) Key data sets
and publications
- Economic
History Services (EH.net) links to resources and discussion
groups on economic history
- Economic
Sociology Resources
- Economics
of Networks (Economides, New York University)
- Econterms
online economics dictionary, focusing on terminology of academic
research
- E-conomy
Project (BRIE)
- Encyclopedia
of Law and Economics Online encyclopedia, includes
bibliographies and literature reviews.
- Encyclopedia
of the New Economy from Wired magazine
- Euro
Official Euro site, including archived information about the
introduction of the new currency.
- Euro
(Corsetti) collected info on the Euro and European Monetary Union
- Facsnet's
Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms a nice dictionary
- FINWeb
- Gallery
of Economists
- Game
Theory and Experimental Economics (Roth) Selected texts and
links to others working in the field.
- Global
Macroeconomic and Financial Policy (Roubini) Links to
selected texts.
- GrantNet
Browse for grant opportunities.
- Hayek
Scholars Page collected info on Friedrich Hayek
- History
of Economic Thought
- Hot
Topics in International Economics (Institute for
International Economics)
- Information
Economy (Varian) The Economics of the Internet, Information
Goods, Intellectual Property and Related Issues.
- International
Affairs Resources (WWW Virtual Library) collection of links.
- International
Network Information Centers (University of Texas) Selected
links to area studies resources
- International
Trade (PACIFIC at U British Columbia) Texts of GATT, SITC,
some data
- International
Trade Resources and Trade
Data (Haveman)
- JokEc:
Jokes about Economics and Economists
- Labor
Economics Bulletin Board
- Labour
Economics Gateway
- Law
and Economics (FindLaw)
- Marxists
Internet Archive primary texts of Marxism (Marx, Engels,
Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg)
- Praxis:
Resources for Social and Economic Development (Estes)
- Resources
for Economists on the Internet: RFE
(Goffe) American Economic Association-sponsored links to
resources
- Quantitative
Macroeconomics and Real Business Cycles (Zimmerman)
- Social
Choice Bibliography (Syracuse University)
- South
Asia Resources (Gang)
- Statistics
on the Web Annotated links to statistics, the mathematical
subject (not data).
- Tax
Policy and Administration an international perspective from
the World Bank
- Virtual
Library on Microcredit
- WebEc:
WWW Resources in Economics
(Saarinen) Comprehensive links to economics resources on the Web
- WTO
and GATT Research (Jeanne Rehberg)
Gateways to Economics Internet Resources
The following sites are general portals to economics resources
on the Internet. These are excellent places to browse or search
for information when you are not sure about the source or nature
of available resrouces.
Statistical and Mathematical Software
Some links to software and code likely to be useful in
economics research.
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