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Table of Contents:
(1) Bureau of
Economic Analysis (BEA), US Department of Commerce
(2) Bureau of
Labor Statistics (BLS), US Department of Labor
(3) USDA
Economics and Statistics System, US Department of Agriculture
(4) Energy
Information Administration
(5) Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation
(6) Penn
World Tables 5.6, University of Toronto
(7) Regional
Economic Information System (REIS)
(8) US
Census Bureau, US Department of Commerce
(9)
International Archive of Education Data, University of Michigan
(10) National
Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
(11) World Bank
(WB)
(12) LABORSTA,
International Labour Organization (ILO)
(13) World Factbook 2000, CIA
(14) Wharton
Research Data Services (WRDS)
(15) Harvard-MIT-Data, Harvard University and MIT
Miscellaneous
International Trade & Emerging Markets
European
Union (EU)
Monetary
and Financial Statistics
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(1) Bureau of Economic Analysis
(BEA), US Department of Commerce
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The BEA web site contains a large variety of economic datasets. Data are
grouped in three general categories: national, international, regional.
Data are usually available in different formats (ASCII, HTML, PDF, spreadsheet).
National Data: Here you can find information contained in sixty selected
tables from the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA). You can choose
the table you want for the period you are interested in, view it on-line
and eventually download it in spreadsheet format. The selected tables
concern: national income and product; personal income and outlays;
government current receipts and expenditures; foreign transactions; savings
and investment; income and employment by industry; quantity and price
indexes. In the section on national data, you can also find statistics by
industry: GDP by industry and covering various time periods; input-output
accounts for 1992, 1996, 1997; others.
International Data: Here you can find data on the
U.S. balance of payments; U.S. exports and imports; foreign
direct investments in the U.S.; U.S. direct investments abroad.
Regional Data: In this section you can find various measures of GSP
for states and regions (1977-98); annual state personal income for states
and regions (1929-1999); local area personal income by county or
metropolitan area (1969-1998).
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(2) Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS), US Department of Labor
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The BLS web site offers a lot of online labor statistics, as well as a link
to the BLS ftp server, ideal for those users requiring large volumes of
data. Among online data you can find a selection of labor force statistics
drawn from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Current Employment
Statistics (CES). The available data concern: employment and unemployment;
prices and living conditions; compensation and working conditions;
productivity and technology. Most data are in PDF format.
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(3) USDA Economics
and Statistics System, US Department of Agriculture
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The USDA Economics and Statistics System includes nearly
200 data sets published by the USDA's Economic Research Service, National
Agricultural Statistics Service and the World Agricultural Outlook Board.
The available data cover a wide range of issues concerning domestic and
international agriculture, agricultural economics, and rural affairs
(crops, dairy and poultry production, specialty agriculture, state and
national farm income, costs of production, world agriculture indicators,
etc.). Most data are in ASCII or spreadsheet format and can be easily imported
into Stata, to carry on empirical analysis.
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(4) Energy Information
Administration
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This web site offers the online version of the Monthly Energy Review,
containing time series that begin in 1949. Data are usually available in
different formats (TXT, XLS, PDF). The covered
topics range from environmental to financial indicators, from end-use
consumption to statistics on electricity, petroleum, natural gas, coal and
nuclear energy.
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(5) Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation
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This web site contains financial data concerning FDIC-insured institutions,
as well as year-by-year summaries of this information beginning in 1934 for
commercial banks and in 1984 for savings institutions.
Statistics on Banking: Here you can find data from a
quarterly report aggregating financial information and reporting the number
all FDIC-insured institutions, with summary statistics by state.
Historical Statistics on Banking: In this section year-by-year
statistical information on the banking industry is collected (beginning in
1934 for commercial banks and in 1984 for savings banks and savings
institutions).
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Penn World Tables 5.6, University of Toronto
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The Penn World Tables (PWT) represent a wonderful
source for analysis requiring international comparisons. The PWT are described
in: Alan Heston and Robert Summers (1991), The Penn World Table (Mark
5): An Expanded Set of International Comparisons, 1950-1988, in
"Quarterly Journal of Economics", pp.327-368. The current online
version of the data set (version 5.6) was released in January 1995. The PWT
currently comprise data for 152 countries and 29 subject variables
(including real GDP, price level, government share, openness of the
economy, standard of living, etc.).
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(7) Regional
Economic Information System (REIS)
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The REIS dataset provides local area economic data for States, counties,
and metropolitan areas (1969-1998). Statistics in the dataset concern:
personal income and earnings; full and part employment; transfer payments;
farm income and expense; others.
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(8) US Census Bureau, US
Department of Commerce
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This web site offers a quick access to demographic and economic statistics
drawn from the Census Survey 2000, as well as a link to an internal ftp
server, ideal for online users requiring large volumes of data.
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(9)International
Archive of Education Data, University of Michigan
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The International
Archive of Educational Data is part of a project sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES). Data stored in this archive are intended to support a wide variety
of comparative and longitudinal research. The web site features an online
data analysis system (DAS), that allows users to
conduct analyses on selected data sets within the archive.
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(10) National Bureau of Economic
Research (NBER)
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The NBER web site contains proper data sets, as well as links to
statistical sources associated with NBER research programs. Information is
organized according to three main categories. Data are usually available in
different formats. Here there are some examples of what you can find.
-Macro-data: Stock-Watson experimental
coincidental leading and recession indexes; Barro-Lee international
measures of schooling years and schooling quality; NBER macro-history
database (pre-WWI and interwar US economy); Jones-Obsfeld saving and
investment data (for 13 countries from 1850 to 1945); official business
cycle statistics.
-Industry data: NBER-CES manufacturing
industry database; import and export by SIC category (1858-1994); balance
sheets and income statements for US commercial banks.
-Individual data: Consumer Expenditure Survey extracts; Current
Population Survey extracts; birth data; death data; vital statistics on marriage
and divorce (1989-1995).
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(11) World Bank (WB)
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The WB web site groups data profiles by country. The online data profiles
are drawn from the updated World Development Indicators database. Data
cover 206 countries (181 WB members and 25 other economies with populations
of more than 30,000), as well as 17 country groups. For each country you
can find indicators about people, environment, economy,
technology&infrastructure or trade&finance. The web site also
offers data by topic: development; agriculture; government; early childhood
development; HIV/AIDS; poverty; employment; macroeconomics&growth;
social development; transition; others.
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LABORSTA, International
Labour Organization (ILO)
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LABORSTA, the online labor statistics of ILO, contain data on almost every
country from 1969 to 1999. Data concern: employment (by economic activity,
occupation, status); unemployment (by age group, level of education); hours
of work and wages (by economic activity); labor cost in manufacturing;
workers injured (by economic activity); work days lost; strikes and workers
involved (by economic activity); others.
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(13) World
Factbook 2000, CIA
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The CIA Factbook contains a huge variety of information and data on
worldwide nations. Data range from geographical information to natural
resources; from environment to population (birth, mortality, immigration,
ethnic groups, etc.); from political aspects (government, constitution,
political parties, interest groups, etc.) to economic data (GDP, population
poverty line, inflation rate, labor force, unemployment, government budget,
exportation/importation, economic aid, etc.); from transportation to
communication; and further more. The only problem of this rich source of
information is that data are mixed up with reports in HTML documents, instead
of being available in statistical formats.
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(14) Wharton Research Data
Services (WRDS)
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The
WRDS site presents the most comprehensive sources of financial, accounting,
economic, management, marketing, banking, and insurance data. The web
interface offers point-and-click access to menus of variables for
researching hundreds of firms simultaneously. Entire databases can be
downloaded for further analysis. You will be given a Class password to
enter the site at the beginning of the course.
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(15) Harvard-MIT-Data,
Harvard University and MIT
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Last
but not least, the web site of the Harvard-MIT
Data Center.
For the variety of available data sets, it is worth surfing. As the
official presentation points out, "the Harvard-MIT
Data Center
is the principal repository of quantitative social science data at Harvard
University and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Many features of this site are
unique, such as over five hundred online data sets, sophisticated browsing
and searching options, automatic ordering of new data sets from other
repositories, and interactive data exploration."
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But the story never ends…
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…Additional useful links to web sites
containing statistical information.
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MISCELLANEOUS
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Selected
Data Archives offering a large variety of data sets: They are worth
surfing.
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Economic
Data, The California State University
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StatLib,
Carnegie Mellon University
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EconData Data Banks, University of Maryland, USA
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Social Science Data Collection, University of California,
San Diego
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The Data Archive,
University of Essex
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History Data Service,
University of Essex
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EURODATA,
Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES)
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INTERNATIONAL
TRADE&EMERGING MARKETS
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Something more about
globalization and development issues
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Globus
& NTDB
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World Trade Organization
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Trade Statistics, WTO
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Asian Development Bank
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Latin Focus
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European Investment Bank
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Interstate Statistical Committee
of the Commonwealth of Independent States
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IFC Emerging Markets Data Base
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EUROPEAN UNION (EU)
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Links to the statistical agencies of EU
countries, starting from the EU statistical office.
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EU:
EUROSTAT
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Austria: Österreichisches
Statistisches Zentralamt (OESTAT)
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Belgium: Institut National de la
Statistique
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Denmark: Danmarks
Statistik
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Finland: Tilastokeskus
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France: Institut
National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (INSEE)
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Germany: Statistisches
Bundesamt
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Greece: National
Statistical Service of Greece
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Ireland: Central Statistics Office (CSO)
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Italy: Istituto Nazionale di
Statistica (ISTAT)
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Luxemburg: Service central de la
statistique et des études économiques (STATEC)
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Netherlands: Centraal Bureau voor
de Statistiek
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Norway: Statistisk
sentralbyra (SSB)
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Portugal: Instituto Nacional
de Estatistica
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Spain: Instituto Nacional
de Estadistica (INE)
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Sweden: Statistiska
centralbyran (SCB)
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United Kingdom: Office for National
Statistics (ONS)
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MONETARY&FINANCIAL
STATISTICS
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Something more about financial
markets and monetary economics.
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Links to Central Banks around the world.
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Federal Reserve Bank of
St. Louis Economic Data (FRED)
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Bloomberg.com
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Austria Oesterreichische
Nationalbank
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Belgium: Nationale Bank van
Belgie - Banque Nationale de Belgique
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Bosnia and Herzegovina:
Centralna Banca Bosne i Hercegovine
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Bulgaria: Bulgarian National Bank
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Canada: Bank of Canada
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Croatia: Croatian National Bank
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Cyprus: Central Bank of
Cyprus
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Czech Republic: Czech National Bank
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Denmark: Danmarks
Nationalbank
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Estonia: Eesti Pank
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European Union: European Central Bank
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Finland: Finlands Bank
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France: Banque de
France
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Germany: Deutsche
Bundesbank
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Greece: Bank of Greece
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Hungary: Magyar Nemzeti Bank
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Iceland: Seðlabanki Islands
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Ireland: Central Bank of Ireland
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Italy: Banca d'Italia
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Latvia: Latvijas Banka
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Lithuania: Lietuvos Bankas
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Luxembourg: Banque Centrale
du Luxembourg
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Malta: Central
Bank of Malta
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Netherlands: De Nederlandsche Bank
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Norway: Norges Bank
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Poland: Narodowy Bank Polski
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Portugal: Banco de
Portugal
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Romania: Banca Nationala a
Romaniei
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Russia: Central Bank of the Russian
Federation
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Slovakia: Narodna Banka Slovenska
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Slovenia: Banka
Slovenije
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Spain: Banco de España
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Sweden: Sveriges Riksbank
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Switzerland: Schweizerische Nationalbank
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United Kingdom: Bank of England
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United States: Federal Reserve
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