InfoGuides: Economics: Learn about Econometrics

Econometrics

Census Information
Dataset Sources

American Factfinder (US Census)
Access to 1990 & 2000 Census, American Community Survey, Economic Census, and more.
County Business Patterns
County Business Patterns is an annual series that provides subnational economic data by industry.
County and City Data Book (2007)
is the most comprehensive source of information about the individual counties and cities in the U.S.
Statistical Abstracts of the U.S. (1878-)
The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
US International Trade Data
Includes U.S. export and import statistics, balance of trade by partner country, and state data.
US Census Economic Indicators
The U.S. Census Bureau regularly updates economic data such as housing starts, retail merchant sales, international durable goods orders. Many graphs of data.

Issue Specific Sources

Bureau of Justice Statistics
The Bureau of Justice Statistics collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.

Education: National Center for Education Statistics The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations. NCES is located within the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences.

Elections/Politics: American National Election Studies ANES produces high quality data from its own surveys on voting, public opinion, and political participation.

National Center for Health Statistics
Provided by the Nation’s principal health statistics agency. Access a wide array of statistical information.

Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy.
Religion: Association of Religion Data Archives The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion.
Transportation: Bureau of Transportation Statistics BTS is the preeminent source of statistics on commercial aviation, multimodal freight, and transportation economics.

Multi-Topic Datasets

Dataferrett
A data mining and extraction tool for official government statistics. Can be extracted as a specific format such as SPSS.
FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Data
44,000 economic time series from 38 sources. Download, graph, and track economic data.
ICPSR
Inter-university Consortium for Social and Political Research offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data. Disciplines represented include political science, sociology, demography, economics, history, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, terrorism, health and medical care, early education, education, racial and ethnic minorities, psychology, law, substance abuse and mental health, and more.
iPoll Databank - Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
U.S. and world public opinion data from the comprehensive archives of the University of Connecticut's Roper Center.
IPUMS: Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
A wealth of population data at the national and international levels; provided by the Minnesota Population Center.
SDA Website
SDA is developed and maintained by the Computer-assisted Survey Methods Program (CSM) at the University of California, Berkeley.
UNSD: United Nations Statistics Division
The UNSD provides a global center for data on international trade, national accounts, energy, industry, commodities, environment and demographic and social statistics gathered from national and international sources.
World Bank Data
Provides free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development. The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 indicators from World Bank data sets.