About This Page
This page contains a list of quick links to major economic data sources and is not comprehensive in scope.
Recommended Data Sources
- ICPSR (Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new window Social Science data archive. Contains data files that are used with statistical packages such as SPSS. N.B. To download data you must create an account. In order to download data from off-campus, you need to have accessed your account from on-campus within the past 6 months. Please contact Whitney Court (wcourt@csbsju.edu) or Bennett Frensko (bfrensko@csbsju.edu) if you need assistance in using this resource.
- IMF Data - International Monetary Fund, including International Financial Statistics This link opens in a new window All aspects of international and domestic finance, with history to 1948.
- IPUMS (Minnesota Population Center) Harmonized data on people in the U.S. census and American Community Survey (1850 - present) and the Current Population Survey (1962 - present). From the MPC Data Projects.
- DATA.gov The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Here you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.
Getting Started with Data
- StatistaUse Statista as a starting point for discovering sources of data series and useful economic statistics. Statista is a portal that consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources. It includes dossiers, reports, and statistical graphs.
- Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) is an online database consisting of hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from scores of national, international, public, and private sources.
United States Economic Data
- Statistical Abstract of the United States This link opens in a new window
Archive of the former publication which was a summary of statistics produced by the U.S. federal government.
- U.S. Census Bureau: Data Access ToolsThe main page of the U.S. Census with quick links to different data sets.
- U.S. Census Bureau: Economic CensusThe U.S. Government's official five-year measure of American business and the economy
International Economic Data
- World Bank Data This link opens in a new window
World Bank's compilation of data which includes education, health, economics, and more.
- OECD StatisticsInternational statistics and key indicators from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- World Development Indicators (World Bank)The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.
- UN DataA data access system to UN databases and national data/statistics agencies.
- IPUMS InternationalHarmonized data for 1960 forward, covering 544 million people in 238 censuses from around the world. From the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) Data Projects.
- International Statistical AgenciesUS Census compilation of demographic and socioeconomic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.