EC 2301 & EC 2303 - Introductory Macroeconomics / Microeconomics - Roman

Links to data from the US government, regional data, world and non-governmental sites.

Advanced search to the UNdata portal that allow users to search by keyword, select statistical areas, sources, and years.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) portal to data and statistical reports. Data includes International Financial Statistics (IFS), Balance of Payments (BOPS), Direction of Trade (DOTS), and more. This source also includes access to publications and reports.

The World Bank's DataBank "is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics." You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and save, embed, and download data. Includes a large number of sources but not every data source by the World Bank. Includes flagship report: World Development Indicators

Access to all the World Bank's economic, social, population, and development data. The Data Catalog link lists all the available datasets. The By Country tool allows users to view and download data for each country by topic for multiple years. Includes all time series, microdata, and geospatial data.

Offers data on development assistance worldwide. The Geoquery tool allows use to retrieve conflict, aid, economic, health and other data and download in a variety of fomat.

Data about EU member countries, candidate countries, and the EFTA from the statistical office of the European Union. Statistics from 9 "themes" including general/regional, economy/finance, population/social conditions, industry/trade, agriculture/fisheries, external trade, transport, environment/energy, and science/technology.

The Internal Labour Organization's "central statistics database ... the primary source for cross-country statistics on the labour market. The database contains over 100 indicators covering more than 230 countries and economies."

"data from 1969 through 2020 for real (adjusted for inflation) gross domestic product (GDP), population, real exchange rates, and other variables for the 190 countries and 34 regions that are most important for U.S. agricultural trade."

US Census Bureau listing of international groups who compile data and statistics. Also lists national statistical agencies.

Reports, analysis, and data on key industry sectors, imports, exports, and trade data. Regional, US, and international data.

OECD portal to data on a variety of topics. Includes data for OECD member countries. Topics include agriculture, development, economy, education, energy, environment, government, health, technology, and jobs.

From AEA, "PWT offers national income accounts converted to international prices, allowing for meaningful international and historical comparisons."

The UN's Commodity Trade Statistics Database offers detailed imports and exports statistics reported by statistical authorities of close to 200 countries or areas. It includes annual trade statistics from 1962 to the most recent year.

The leading authority on health information/matters and health research within the United Nations system. Provides access to information, research and statistics on global health issues and topics.

"Allows users to access and retrieve information on trade and tariffs." Produced in collaboration with The World Bank, the UN, and others.

"The WTO Data portal contains statistical indicators related to WTO issues. Available time series cover merchandise trade and trade in services statistics, market access indicators (bound, applied & preferential tariffs), non-tariff information as well as other indicators."

US agency that publishes economic statistics on Gross Domestic Product (GDP), consumer spending, international balance of payments and international trade, and regional and state data.

BLS covers inflation & prices, pay & benefits, employment/unemployment, workplace injuries, spending & time use, and productivity. Well-know datasets include the Consumer Price Index and Producer Price Index. Also includes some regional and international data.

Provides public access to datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. View datasets by agency, or search by keyword or category.

List of the most common datasets including indicators such as construction, housing, international trade, manufacturing, retail trade, and services.

User can view and edit graphs, see original data sources, view data about the data, download data, etc. FRED "contains and displays the most recent revision...of the data available."

From the Bureau of Labor Statistics, "measures the amount of time people spend doing various activities, such as paid work, childcare, volunteering, and socializing."

Data on U.S. federal spending and revenue, projections and forecasts

From the Bureau of Labor Statistics. "Collects information from the Nation's households and families on their buying habits (expenditures), income, and household characteristics. The strength of the survey is that it allows data users to relate the expenditures and income of consumers to the characteristics of those consumers."

"Published data lists are economic time series data sets that users of this site have chosen to make publicly available. Possible uses include teachers sharing data lists with students and researchers including links to data lists in bibliographies." From the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Various data releases, publications, working papers, etc. on a broad range of economic and finance topics.

U.S. government agency for international aid. The database provides data on U.S. foreign aid.

Reports, analysis, and data on key industry sectors, imports, exports, and trade data. Regional, US, and international data.

Provides historical census and survey data, including microdata, from the U.S. and worldwide.

"private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works." Hosts data on the US economy.

"Longest running longitudinal household survey in the world." Data on employment, income, expenditures, health, marriage, etc.

Data on consumer attitudes, beliefs, expectations. From the University of Michigan.