This page provides links to data sources on the World Wide Web. I would be very interested to hear about other useful sites with data; please e-mail me with any suggestions you might have. The links given below were active as of March 18, 2010.
1. Links to Economic and Financial Data
| TITLE | WEB SITE | DATA TYPE | FORMAT AVAILABLE |
| Stern OnLine Data Access | http://www.stern.nyu.edu/it/rds/research/index.html | data on basic economics, industrial compustat, bank compustat, business information compustat, global vantage, stock, bond & indices; | data available as SAS data files & ASCII files; user name and password required; |
| Global Financial Data | https://www.globalfinancialdata.com/ | annual data on stock markets, inflation rates, interest rates, exchange rates,etc; | data available in various formats; |
| National Bureau of Economic Research Macrohistory Database | http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/index.html | historic data on production, construction, employment, money, prices, asset market transactions, foreign trade and government activity; | data available in Micro-TSP.db format which is readable by TSP, Micro-TSP, Eviews, RATS and other packages; |
| Federal Reserve Economic Data | http://www.stls.frb.org/fred/ | historical U.S.economic and financial data, including daily U.S. interest rates, monetary and business indicators, exchange rate, balance of payments and regional economic data; | compressed files in .zip or self-extracting.exe formats, others in ASCII format; |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics | http://stats.bls.gov/ | employment, average annual pay, and many other economic statistics; | data available in ASCII format; |
| WebEc Economics Data | http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/webecc8d.html | one of the best and complete economics data links including data on both international and domestic data categorized by area and country; | various data formats, some data available as ASCII,Excel and other convenient format; others available as print-out tables; |
| Bill Goffe's Resources for Economists | http://rfe.org/showCat.php?cat_id=2 | data for U.S. and regional economies; links to many other U.S. data sites; links to world/non-U.S. data; | data available in different forms depending on source; |
| The Connecticut Economic Information System | http://www.ct.gov/ecd/site/default.asp | data on employment and labor force, demographic and social statistics; exports, the growth of economy and other economic indicators; | data available in excel format; |
| Yahoo! Finance | http://finance.yahoo.com/ | stock quotes & other data on financial market; | data downloadable in spreadsheet format; |
| National Economic Accounts | http://www.bea.gov/bea/regional/data.htm | Local area economic data for states, counties and metropolitan areas; | data available in excel file; |
| Financial Data Finder | http://fisher.osu.edu/cgi-bin/DB_Search/ db_search.cgi?setup_file=finance.setup.cgi |
links to historical data and quotes on banks, derivatives, equity, exchanges, fixed income, investment, real estate, etc; | data available in printed-out table or ASCII file; |
| Damodaran Online | http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar | This page provides information on how to collect data from a variety of sources; it also allows you to look at and download a number of data sets that you might find useful in corporate finance and valuation; | data available in downloadable format; |
| Economagic | http://www.economagic.com/ | This page provides links to more than 100,000 economic time series. | data available through cutting and pasting; Excel files are available by subscription; |
| Free Lunch |
http://www.economy.com/freelunch | Links to many financial,
economic, and demographic data |
data available through
cutting and pasting |
2. Links to Other Social Science Data
| TITLE | WEB SITE | DATA TYPE | FORMAT AVAILABLE |
| EH.net | http://eh.net/ehresources/ | databases include data on U.S. population series; labor force data by all kinds of categories; data of the rural agricultural workforce by sex and by age-group, by county at census dates from 1800-1900; | data available in both ASCII and Excel format; |
| Crime & Justice Electronic Data Abstracts | http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/ | crime and justice data containing thousands of numbers and hundreds of categories, displayed by jurisdiction and over time; | data presented in spreadsheets in .wk1 format; convenient to use with analytic software; |
| Yale StatCat | http://ssrs.yale.edu/statcat/index.jsp | links to a lot of social science survey data; | data provided within extract and analysis systems and/or in downloadable formats; |
| Survey Documentation & Analysis | http://sda.berkeley.edu/ | data on national omnibus surveys; racial attitudes and prejudice; health surveys; US census microdata and data for testing; | data available in ASCII format; |
| Data and Information Services Center | http://www.disc.wisc.edu/ | a complete social science data archive for use in social science research; | data are free to download; |
| Yahoo Social Science Data Archive | http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Social_Research/Data_Collections/
Science/Social_Research/Data_Collections/ |
links to all kinds of data archives | data available in different kinds of formats; |
| Social Sciences Data Collection (SSDC) | http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/ | links to all kinds of social sciences data | data available in different kinds of formats; some data have access restrictions; |
3. Links to Sports Data
| TITLE | WEB SITE | DATA TYPE | FORMAT AVAILABLE |
| The Sports Data Page | http://it.stlawu.edu/~rlock/sports.html
sports.html |
links collected to help students and instructors find current & archived sports data; | data available in printed-out tables |
4. Data about the entertainment industry
| TITLE | WEB SITE | DATA TYPE | FORMAT AVAILABLE |
| Internet Movie Database | http://www.imdb.com/ | Very extensive information about movies, including revenues, budgets, etc.; | data available in printed-out tables; |
| The Numbers | http://www.the-numbers.com/ | Very extensive information about movies, including revenues, budgets, international figures, etc.; | data available in printed-out tables; |
| Box Office Mojo | http://www.boxofficemojo.com/ | Movie box office information ; | data available in printed-out tables; |
| Rotten Tomatoes | http://www.rottentomatoes.com/ | Movie reviews ; | data available by movie; |
| Playbill On-Line | http://www.playbill.com/ | Information about the Broadway theatre, including Broadway grosses (and discount tickets!) | data available in printed-out tables; |
| Broadway League | http://www.broadwayleague.com/ | Information about the Broadway theatre, including Broadway grosses | data available in printed-out tables; |
| Billboard | http://www.billboard.com/ | Information about the music industry ; | data available in various charts; |
5. Links to Comprehensive Data
| TITLE | WEB SITE | DATA TYPE | FORMAT AVAILABLE |
| The Info Service | http://info-s.com/ | Links to just about everything you can think of | data available in different forms depending on source |
| Regional Statistics | http://www.fedstats.gov/ | links to more than 70 federal agencies with regional statistics on agriculture; demographic and economic; crime; education; energy and environment; health; labor and national accounts;etc; | data available in compressed ASCII files; |
| Government statistics
related to business |
http://www.policyexpert.co.uk/businessresources/ |
links to various Federal
databases |
data available in various
formats |
| International OECD Statistics | http://www.oecd.org/statsportal/0,2639,en_2825_293564_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
0,2639,en_2825_293564_1_1_1_1_1,00.html |
links to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development statistics on agriculture; demographic and economic; crime; education; energy and environment; health; | some data available in Excel and ASCII files; others as printed-out tables |
| Center for International Earth Science Information Network | http://www.ciesin.org/ | data resources including archive of census related products; China dimensions data collection; environmental treaty texts; gridded population of the world, etc; | data usually available in ASCII format; |
| National Climatic Data Center | http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html | links to weather-related data categorized as Climate; Geophysical; Oceanographic; Radar and Satellite; | data available as downloadable format; |
| Statistical Resources on the Web | http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stcomp.html
libhome/Documents.center/ stcomp.html |
complete links to all kinds of online data archives; | data available in different forms depending on source; |
| Statistics Data Sources | http://www.statistics.com/ | links to many different data archives | data available in different forms depending on source |
6. Links to Data for Teaching Statistics
| TITLE | WEB SITE | DATA TYPE | FORMAT AVAILABLE |
| The Dataset and Story Library (DASL) | http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/
DASL/ |
provides data from a wide variety of topics that illustrate the use of basic statistics method; data may be searched by data subjects or by statistical techniques; | data available in ASCII format; |
| Statistics on the Web | http://www.claviusweb.net/statistics.shtml | links to more general statistical resources on the web, with a good section related to teaching statistics. | |
| Juha Puranen's Statistics Education links | http://www.causeweb.org/resources/links.php | links to many statistical teaching resources on the web. |
This page was originally created by Lan Ma and
Jeffrey S.
Simonoff, and is maintained (sporadically) by Jeffrey Simonoff.