WEB SITES WITH DATA.


  • ACCRA Cost of Living Index:  provides cost of living measures by city.
  • America's Career InfoNet.  provides recent data about occupations, their wages for states and the country, and trends in employment and job gorwth.   Also contains profiles of states by several demographic stats. 
  • Bureau of Labor Statistics: labor data for nation and regions; price indices; benefits, etc.
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis:  U.S. Economic Accounts, state and local stats, industry level, international accounts.
  • Census Bureau: links to 70 federal agencies that collect data as well as state and international statistics.
  • CIA Factbook:  Statistics on countries throughout the world.
  • Current Population Survey: summary stats from CPS, the survey instrument, etc.
  • Dismal.com : Contains macro and regional data series, forecasts on some variables, and links to other web sites with data.
  • DRI data for Eviews:  Wealth of macro data for U.S. with a description of how to  with E-views (complements of Nick Noble).
  • Dr. T's Econ Data and Analysis Links
  • Economagic   Macroeconomic time series data.
  • Econometrics Laboratory Software Archive.  Data available from Berkeley and links to other data web sites.  Downloads available for CPS, CES, Census, Patents and others.
  • Employee Benefits Survey: BLS data on employee benefits (pensions, health insurance, vacation, etc).
  • Economic Report of the President: Economic reports from 1960 forward.
  • Federal Reserve Banks 
  • Fred: Federal Reserve Economic Data. Historical financial and economic data that is easy to download.
  • FXEconostats:   Graphs of current macro data for a variety of countries
  • HRS and AHEAD: Contains the micro data for the health and retirement survey and the assets and health dynamics of the oldest old.
  • HRS and AHEAD from Rand.
  • IPUMS.   Data extraction system to create samples of U.S. census data.  Compliments of Univ. of Minnesota.
  • IPUMS-International.   Census data for 20 different countries. 
  • ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Listing of data available and descriptions of data bases.
  • NBER data:  data from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
  • Occupational Safety and Health Administration.  Includes data on injury rates and fatalities.
  • Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
  • Penn World Tables:  Data on countries throughout the world.
  • PSID: Contains the codebooks and data for the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.
  • Resources for Economists: a list of approximately 30 web sites with economic data.
  • SIPP.   Survey of Income and Program Participation.
  • Statistical Abstract of the U.S. contains a collection of statistics (over 1400 tables and graphs) on social, economic, and international subjects.
  • Statistics of Income: wealth of information about the financial composition of individuals, business taxpayers, tax exempt organizations and more. This data has been sampled from all kinds of returns and sorted in lots of interesting ways.
  • Statistical Resources on the Web: University of Michigan web site with links to data resources.  
  • STAT-USA: The National Trade Data Bank (NTDB) is the U.S. Government's most comprehensive source of international trade data and export promotion information. Types of information on the NTDB include: International Market Research, Export Opportunities; Indices of foreign and domestic companies; how-to market guides; Reports on demographic, political, and socio-economic conditions for hundreds of countries; and much more.
  • Statistical Abstract of the U.S.: contains 1995-97 editions.  A wealth of statistics on employment, income, prices, financial data, etc.  Great reference.
  • Survey of Consumer Finances: The Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) is a triennial survey of the balance sheet, pension, income, and other demographic characteristics of U.S. families. The survey also gathers information on the use of financial institutions.
  • U.S. Department of Labor contains links to Bureau of Labor Statistics official databases; MSHA data on mining accidents and injury statistics; OSHA data on occupational injury & illness incidence rates; Data from other government agencies; and the Economics and Statistics Administration which is a good source for economic, and demographic information collected by the Federal Government.
  • World Bank:  Stats and maps on other countries.
  • WRDS:  Wharton Research Data Services