Economics - Datasets - STAT 530: Applied Multivariate Statistics and Data Mining - Library Guides at University of South Carolina

Overview

Below are some examples of resources that you can use to find economic resources. This is not a comprehensive list.

Bureau of Labor Statistics
The official website of The Bureau of Labor and Statistics. Allows access to statistics on a number of employment related subjects.
EconData.Net Data Collections
1,000 links to socioeconomic data sources, arranged by subject and provider.
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)
FRED® is a database of over 246,000 US economic time series from 77 sources. With FRED®, you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series.

IMF Data
Free access to IMF macroeconomic and worldwide financial data, including balance of payment and direction of trade statistics.
ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
University affiliates can create an account and access the ICPSR archive of research data, including specialized collections in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, and terror. More information

National Bureau of Economic Research
The nation's leading nonprofit economic research organization. Key focus areas include developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, and analyzing the effects of public policy.

NOTE: Must create a free account to access parts of the content.
OECD Stats
OECD.Stat includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies.