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Web Address |
Data Coverage |
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U.S. Government Agencies |
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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System |
www.federalreserve.gov |
interest rates, monetary, bank reserve, and credit data; flow of funds; foreign exchange rates; industrial production and capacity utilization |
Bureau of Economics Analysis |
www.bea.gov |
U.S. national-accounting data. |
Bureau of Labor Statistics |
www.bls.gov |
data on employment, unemployment, wages, hours, working conditions, CPI and PPI price indices |
Bureau of the Census |
www.census.gov |
U.S. population statistics; socio-economic data on U.S. population |
Central Intelligence Agency |
www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html |
World Factbook – economic and other data on individual countries and cross-country comparative data |
Congressional Budget Office |
www.cbo.gov/ |
Federal budget projections, historical budget data, real-time data for potential GDP and NAIRU |
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland |
www.clevelandfed.org/research/data/ |
selection of economic indicators consolidated from a variety of sources; median CPI data |
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia |
www.philadelphiafed.org/research-and-data/ |
Livingston Survey of expectations of economic data; real-time economic data; Survey of Professional Forecasters |
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
www.frbsf.org/publications/fedinprint/index.html |
search engine for publications of the entire Federal Reserve System |
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco |
www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/index.php |
Economic Letter (accessible short articles on current economic issues), FedViews (analysis of current economic events) |
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s ALFRED database |
alfred.stlouisfed.org |
database of historical (“real-time”) data |
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s FRED database |
research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ |
easy-to-use database consolidated from U.S. government, Federal Reserve, and private sources |
President’s Council of Economic Advisers |
www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea |
Economic Report of the President, U.S. economic data consolidated from various sources |
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International Agencies |
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Bank of International Settlements |
www.bis.org/ |
international finance and exchange rate data |
International Labor Organization |
www.ilo.org |
LABORSTA – database of international labor statistics; Key Indicators of the Labor Market |
International Monetary Fund |
www.imf.org/external/data.htm |
wide range of data for most countries, particularly national-accounting, balance-of-payments, and financial statistics |
Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) |
www.oecd.org/statsportal |
wide range of standardized data for OECD countries |
United Nations Human Development Indicators |
hdr.undp.org/en/statistics |
international data on comparative well-being |
World Bank |
www.worldbank.org/ |
international data, World Bank Development Indicators |
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Other Resources |
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American Economic Association Resources for Economists on the Internet |
www.aeaweb.org/RFE/ |
includes links to a variety of data sources, economic dictionaries, software, and other resources |
Conference Board |
www.conference-board.org/economics/ |
consumer confidence and economic indicator data |
Measuring Worth |
www.measuringworth.com/ |
variety of historical databases and calculators for making historical comparisons of the value of money using various methods |
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) |
www.nber.org |
U.S. business cycle dates, links to a variety of other data, including the Economic Report of the President |
Penn World Tables |
pwt.econ.upenn.edu/php_site/pwt_index.php |
many data series on a consistent purchasing-power parity basis useful cross-country comparisons of economic growth |
Robert Shiller Online Data |
www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/data.htm |
data on stock markets, housing prices, historical consumption and historical financial markets |