Data Sets for Economics: WWW Sources for Data Sets

Data.census.gov is the data dissemination platform to access demographic and economic data from the U.S. Census Bureau.

"The home of the U.S. Government’s open data."

Use the filters to narrow down to a data set, by topic, format, agency/organization, or location.

The publisher ProQuest stepped in to continue the Statistical Abstract series when the U.S. Census Bureau ceased its publication in 2011.

"Resources.data.gov is an online repository of policies, tools, case studies, and other resources to support data governance, management, exchange, and use throughout the federal government."

Archival access to the digitized volumes of the Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1889-2012.

"The Harvard Dataverse Repository is a free data repository open to all researchers from any discipline, both inside and outside of the Harvard community, where you can share, archive, cite, access, and explore research data. "

"re3data.org is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines." [...] It is sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG).

UCI contains "622 data sets as a service to the machine learning community."

"FRED, your trusted source for economic data since 1991. [...] Download, graph, and track 816,000 US and international time series from 108 sources" From the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Data Download Program.

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) was founded in 1920, to "encourage ... investigation, research, and discovery, and the application of knowledge ... in the fields of economic, social, and industrial science."

Offers "Webinars and tutorials on accessing and using ICPSR resources."

"We’re sharing the data and code behind some of our articles and graphics." Founded by Nate Silver in 2008, FiveThirtyEight (538) focused on opinion poll analysis. It has been associated with The New York Times, ESPN, and now with ABC News.

Selection of free public data sets available at Tableau.

A "weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets," published by the data editor and reporter Jeremy Singer-Vine. Selected by the American Library Association's as one of the 'Best of the Best Business Reference Websites.'

"Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.""

Depending on the extent of use, fees may apply.

"Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union."

Includes data sets on education, energy, communication (internet usage), and development assistance.

"The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the official and trusted source of internationally-comparable data on education, science, culture and communication."

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