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 windowSocial 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.
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.govThe 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.
Use 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) is an online database consisting of hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from scores of national, international, public, and private sources.
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.
Harmonized data for 1960 forward, covering 544 million people in 238 censuses from around the world. From the Minnesota Population Center (MPC) Data Projects.
