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Community only (available only to Northwestern faculty, students,
and staff)
- American Statistical
Association Business & Economics Statistics
- Asia-Studies
Full-Text Online (formerly known as APEC Full-Text Studies
Online)
The premier database for the study of modern Asia Pacific. Includes thousands of full-text reports covering 53 countries on a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues. Country coverage includes all of Asia, Australia/New Zealand, the Americas Pacific Rim countries, and Pacific islands.
- BizStats.com
Useful business statistics
- Center
for Population Economics (CPE) at University of Chicago
CPE specializes
in the development of life-cycle and intergenerational data sets
to study demographic, epidemiological, and economic processes,
and, among other things, develops software to facilitate the retrieval
of data from archival sources, to clean the data sets and to manipulate
the data for purposes of analyses.
- China Census Data 1 and 2
Historical county population census data with maps. Available years: 1953, 1964,
1982, 1990, 2000. CDRom; inquire in Government
and Geographic Information and Data Service Department.
- China Data Online Comprehensive online database focusing on economic statistics of China, arranged by regions and categories. Includes monthly and yearly reports on China’s macroeconomic development, statistical databases about China’s population and economy at the provincial, county, and city level, and financial indicators of more than 568 industrial branches. Also includes statistical yearbooks, industrial and marketing surveys, and an atlas of China.
- County & City
Data Book (1988 and 1994 editions)
- Countries and Regions: Statistics and Text Resources
A guide prepared by Northwestern's Government and Georgrapic Information and Data Services Department. Directs researchers to full-text sources available online, databases purchased by Northwestern University Library, and to materials located at the Library.
- Country,
Religion, Topical Statistics -- OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on
the Web
- DRI
Basic Economics (Global Insight Economic and Financial Data)
Once logged in, to access the data, select DataInsight-WEB. DRI
Basic Economics presents a selection of historical time-series
data on the U.S. economy from federal agencies and private organizations.
All reported history is included, and updates are available within
hours of release. The DRI BASIC Economics database contains monthly,
quarterly, and annual time-series data that date back to 1946,
when available,
and end with the latest updates. Data consist of national-level
information from Federal agencies such as the Bureau of Economic
Analysis, Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Federal
Reserve Board as well as private organizations such as the
Conference Board. Coverage includes that of the four following
data sets. BASIC covers US economic, financial, and demographic
statistics including merchandise trade, population, production,
income, housing, employment, money supply, and interest and
exchange rates. Various series are available at monthly, quarterly,
or annual frequencies. BASIC_D covers daily financial and market
variables, commodity prices, and exchange and interest rates.
BASIC_FX covers daily exchange and interest rates, and selected
materials prices. BASIC_W covers weekly monetary aggregates,
commodity prices and production, and exchange and interest
rates.
- Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
- Economic
Report of the U.S. President (includes downloadable statistical
tables, 1995 forward)
- Economic Research/FRED,
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
An economic time-series database. Produced by the Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis.
- Economics
Statistics Briefing Room (The White House)
Provides easy access to
current Federal economic indicators.
- E-Stats,
from the U.S. Census Bureau. Information on measuring the
electronic economy, including methods, classification systems,
background papers, some archives.
- European Digital Library
- Eurostat (Statistical
Office of the European Communities)
To use this database,
patrons must be logged in by the staff in the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services.
- Federal Reserve System,
Board of Governors
Home page includes links to recent statistical releases.
- FedStats
Gateway to statisics from over 100 federal agencies.
- FirstGov: Your First Click to the
U.S. Government
- Foreign
Trade Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau
- Gallup Brain
A searchable database containing the results from over 125,000 Gallup opinion questions dating back to 1935.
- Geostat,
from University of Virginia
Historical data sources contain information from 1960 and earlier.
They cover all subjects, but there are especially rich sources
for demographic and political information.
Global Development Finance
World Bank statistics on the external debt and financial flows of developing nations.
- Global Insight Economic and Financial Data
A series of data sets
cover
the following areas:
- Data as released by US government for key economic indicators. Three series
for each concept show date of publication and reported values for advance
release, preliminary revision, and final revision.
- Daily financial and market variables, commodity prices, and exchange and
interest rates.
- Daily exchange and interest rates, and selected materials prices.
- Weekly monetary aggregates, commodity prices and production, and exchange
and interest rates.
Once you've gotten to the page linked above, click on "DataInsight-Web" on
the left side of the page.
- Government
Finance Statistics
- GuideStar: The National
Database of Nonprofit Organizations
- Historical Statistics of the United States : Earliest Times to the Present
Millennial edition. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Revised update of: Historical Statistics of the United States,
colonial times to 1970 (Bicentennial ed. Washington : U.S. Dept.
of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1975). Access to the 2006 online
edition is restricted to the Northwestern University community.
- ICPSR
(Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
- INSEE (Institut
National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques)
Available
in French and English versions, includes main indicators, France
in Facts & Figures,
French census, and more.
- Integrated
Public Use Microdata Sample (IPUMS), Minnesota Population Center,
University of Minnesota
- Inter-American Devlopment Bank.
See especially the section entitled Statistics
and Tools.
- International Statistics Resources
A guide prepared by Northwestern's Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department, intended to direct researchers to statistics available in print, CD and online that will allow them to quantitatively compare countries. It is organized by subject and some resources are listed under more than one subject.
- ISI Emerging Markets
- Joint Center for Political
and Economic Studies Data Bank
- Journal Citation Reports
Citation data and information about scholarly and technical journals.
- KILM
Key Indicators of the Labour Market
- LexisNexis Statistical (formerly Statistical Universe)
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- National
Center for Charitable Statistics
A program of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute.
- National
Longitudinal Surveys
- Panel
Study of Income Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
- Roper Center
for Public Opinion Research and IPOLL
Includes access to RoperExpress, which offers unlimited access
to public opinion data.
- Social
Science Data Services (SSDS), Northwestern University Library
- SourceOECD
- Statistical
Abstract of the United States
- Statistical
Resources on the Web - UMICH
Statistical Resources on the Web, from University of Michigan
Vast arrray of information on a wide variety of topics, including economics, education, business, foreign investment, etc. Some material is free, other material is limited to University of Michigan users only.
- Survey Random Sample Calculator
- UC Atlas
of Global Inequality, Online Datasets
The Atlas “explores
the interaction between global integration (globalization) and
inequality.” Themes include economic globalization, health,
and income inequality. Includes time series maps of the world that
show patterns of inequality and a database that allows tables and
graphs to be generated and downloaded for selected data and countries.
- U.K. Census Records (19th century)
- United Nations Common Database (UNCDB)
Provides selected series from numerous specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas. For more information on using this resource, inquire at Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department.
- United Nations
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC/CEPAL)
- United
Nations Statistics and Research Sources
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S.
Census Bureau, CenStats Databases
Statistics, demographic information, and other data from several Census Bureau
databases.
- U.S.
Census Bureau, Census of Population and Housing
Information and
data sets, ranges from most recent census to the historical decennial
census conducted throughout the decades, starting with 1790.
- U.S.
Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
- U.S.
Department of Justice, Bureau of Labor Statistics
- World Development Indicators
- World
Economic Outlook (WEO) Database
Published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
- World
Trade Analyzer
For further information, contact:
Harriet Lightman
Head, Academic Liaison Services
Subject Librarian for History, Economics, and Philosophy
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2300
h-lightman@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-2920
Office Location: Room 2622, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Main Library
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