Data Sets for Economics: Sample Topics

Data Downloads.

Analyze Boston is the City of Boston's open data hub.

"New England Economic Indicators is a data resource assembled by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s New England Public Policy Center. It provides current and historical economic data for the six states in the First Federal Reserve District (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont), large metropolitan areas in the region, New England as a whole, and the United States."

"The Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES) provides data on capital spending for new and used structures and equipment by U.S. nonfarm businesses with and without employees."

"BEA's (Bureau of Economic Analysis) industry accounts are used extensively by policymakers and businesses to understand industry interactions, productivity trends, and the changing structure of the U.S. economy. "

"the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) archives and disseminates data on crime and justice for secondary analysis. [...] Located within the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a research center of the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan, NACJD is sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) of the United States Department of Justice."

"The FBI's UCR Program includes data from more than 18,000 city, university and college, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies." It has been providing crime statistics since 1930.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education

This overview essay includes tables and charts, with notes on the data's origins.

Ford, T. N. (2023, February 13). Historical unemployment for Black women and men in the United States: 1954-2021. Brookings. https://www.brookings.edu/2023/02/13/historical-unemployment-for-black-women-and-men-in-the-united-states-1954-2021/

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) national economic accounts provide a comprehensive picture of the U.S. economy and feature many macroeconomic statistics.

"The BEA regional economic accounts provide a wealth of statistics that detail the geographic distribution of U.S. economic activity and growth and provide a consistent framework for analyzing and comparing individual state and local area economies."

"The Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program produces employment and wage estimates annually for nearly 800 occupations." From the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

"The NAACP and the Brookings Institution have partnered to develop tools and resources that will empower communities with data and information. The partnership’s primary project is the Black Progress Index, which provides a means to understand the health and well-being of Black people and the conditions that shape their lives."

Query system for the analysis of public health data

"The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is the nation’s principal health statistics agency, [...]. NCHS compiles statistical information to help guide public health and health policy decisions."

"Drawing on tens of millions of records, the Eviction Lab at Princeton University has published the first ever dataset of evictions in America, going back to 2000."

From the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R).

The AHS Table Creator gives you the ability to create customized tables from the American Housing Survey."

"[A]nalyses of housing stats, migration trends, other related data and policy topics..."

Historical Tables.

From the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R).
Topics of data collection include "the American Housing Survey, median family incomes and income limits, as well as microdata from research initiatives on topics such as housing discrimination, the HUD-insured multifamily housing stock, and the public housing population."

Made available for viewing by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

From the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

"Explore open data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics."

Downloadable time series.

From the The U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

Raw data files containing campaign finance data.