These are decennial city and national population sizes
from 1930 to 1980. For some cities there are also
1985 populations. All the large countries of the world are included
and the largest cities in each country are included. There are
10,961 cases (city and year).
These data were originally collected in connection with an NSF-
sponsored research project (SES 8318793) "World Division of Labor
and the Development of National City Systems, 1800-1980. The PI was
Christopher Chase-Dunn, Sociology, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD. 21218 (chriscd@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu). The data were
further cleaned and improved by Brad Lyman, Sociology, Baltimore
City Community College, Baltimore, Md. 21215.
These data were used to analyze trends in urban primacy.
Publications resulting from the projects are:
Michael Timberlake 1985 Urbanization in the World-Economy New York,
Academic Press.
Christopher Chase-Dunn 1985 "The coming of urban primacy in Latin
America" Comparative Urban Research, Vol. 11, # 1-2:14-31.
Bradford Lyman 1992 "Colonial governance in the development of
urban primacy" Studies in Comparative International Development
27,2:24-38.
Bradford Lyman 1992 "Urban primacy and world-system position"
Urban Affairs Quarterly 28,1:22-37.
CodEc -
Programs for Economics and Econometrics
(Economics Department of Washington University)
CodEc
is part of NetEc, a volunteer project to improve the
communication of research in Economics via eletronic media. The
contribution of CodEc is to collect and provide computer programs of
interest for economists and econometricians. CodEc provides source
code for several programming languages (currently in C, C++ and
Fortran) as well as programs written in some of the econometrical and
statistical software used in Economics (for example Gauss, Rats and
Shazam). CodEc also has programs for computer algebra systems
(Mathematica) and executable binaries for DOS or Windows. More CodEc
information is available as WWW hypertext, in PostScript for GhostView
or for printing and in dvi format for xdvi or other dvi drivers.
Comparative Election
Administration Study Data Archive (CEAS/DA) (Department
of Political Science Göteborg University, Sweden)
Will contain unique and rich data set on 'election administrations',
'electoral systems', 'electoral law' and 'constitution' of the
112 Countries world over. The Archive is under construction and will
hopefully be open at the beginning of 1996 with a wide range of
datasets.
Components
of population growth, United States, 1800-1980
(Economic History Services Databases)
http://cs.muohio.edu/Databases/US_Pop/
The five tables in this file were prepared by Michael Haines of
Colgate University for "The Population of the United States,
1790-1920" as
Chapter 4 in Stanley Engerman and Robert Gallman, eds., The Cambridge
Economic History Of The United States, Vol. II, "The Long Nineteenth
Century." The goal is to provide some updated summary information on
the components of population change, the composition of the population,
fertility and mortality, regional population redistribution, and recorded
immigration to the United States. Sources are given in the notes to
the tables.
Also at:
http://www.eh.net/ehnet/Databases/US_Pop/
Comprehensive
Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) (U.S. Department of Energy)
The Department of Energy (DOE) has developed the Comprehensive
Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) Program to provide public access to
health and exposure data concerning DOE installations. Most of the
data are from epidemiologic studies conducted by DOE-funded
researchers as part of the DOE Worker Health and Mortality Study.
Additionally, studies of populations residing near DOE installations,
and other studies of radiation health effects, such as classic studies
of atomic bomb survivors and the radium dial painters, are represented
in CEDR.
keywords:
Los Alamos National Lab
cancer
causes
cedr78
chemical
cohort study
company
congenital
epidemiologic
exposure
external
facilities
facility
female
fernald
flats
hanford
laboratory
lanl
life
linde plant
lung
males
malformations
mallinckrodt
mercury
model
mortality
mound
multiple
national
nickel
Oak Ridge
pantex
phosgene
plant
plutonium
polonium
prevalence
radiation
registry
ridge
Rocky Flats
savannah
site
smrs
suicide
transuranium
unpublished
uranium
war
weapons
welders
workers
working
Congressional
Budget Office (US) Reports
CBO prepares various types of analyses for the Congress,
including cost estimates for bills that individual Members have
introduced or plan to introduce. CBO's services can be grouped
in three categories: helping the Congress formulate a budget
plan, helping it stay within that plan, and helping it consider
issues related to the budget and to economic policy. Look for tables
of data in these reorts. For a good example, see The
Economic and Budget Outlook, Fiscal Years 1997-2006, May 1996.
CONSUMPTION ON THE COTTON SYSTEM AND
STOCKS: FEBRUARY 1997 - M22P(97)-2 -
Data on
consumption and stocks of cotton, manmade fiber staple by type
of material, and stocks of cotton held at public storage and at
compresses. Another table presents data on cotton spindles in
place and spindle hours operated by major kind of business and
type of fiber spun. Information is provided on world supply and
distribution of cotton, with comparable data for the U.S. -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m22p9702.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0017 - Mar. 24, 1997)
County and City Data
Book (University of Virgini)
Both the 1988 and 1994 County and City Data Book are available
here. The dbase files from the CDs are merged into single
files for each year/level combination. Users can now select as many
cities, counties, or states and combine that with as many variables as
they would like. At this stage of development, the user may selected
the method of sorting the data (alpha, numeric-ascending,
numeric-descending), as well as the mode of delivery.
Ann Green of Yale University prepared
a very useful overview of this and other sites and their features
for an IASSIST Workshop.
CSA Survey Data
Documentation and Analysis
(University of California--Berkeley Data Applications)
Data available here include:
GSS (General Social Survey) 1972-1994 Cumulative Datafile,
1990 Census - California 1% Sample,
NES (US National Election Study) 1952-1992 Cumulative Datafile,
1991 Race and Politics Survey,
Italian Prejudice Survey (Italian and English versions),
and CSA Test Data.
This site is intended to illustrate how various types of data
files can be set up for WWW access using CSA tools. CSA
(Conversational Survey Analysis) is UC Berkeley's proprietary
software, a set of programs for the documentation and analysis of
survey data. The programs can produce codebooks either for
printing or for browsing. Data analysis includes cross-
tabulation and the comparison of means, other features are
planned for the future, including an extract program for
preparing the corresponding data definitions necessary to
generate system files for SAS and SPSS.
Ann Green of Yale University prepared
a very useful overview of this and other sites and their features
for an IASSIST Workshop.
CU
Time Series Repository ( University of Colorado at Boulder)
A repository of time series data, methods, papers, bibliography files, and
more. Including Santa Fe Competition Data, "benchmarks," and more.
We've captured a local copy of the
Daily Exchange Rates
(1973-1987) and
NYSE daily Returns
(1962-1988) data. Other data available from CU includes the
tickwise bids for the exchange rate from Swiss francs to US dollars;
(August 7, 1990 to April 18, 1991).
Currency Exchange
Rates (gopher)
The United Nations provides these exchange rates for over 200 countries.
Currency Exchange Rates
(Olsen & Associates Switzerland)
You can view an exchange rate on any day from 1 January 1990 to the present;
the median and the daily high and low.
Current
Population Survey (U.S. Census Bureau)
The Current Population Survey (CPS) is a monthly survey of about 50,000
households conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of
Labor Statistics. The survey has been conducted for more than 50 years.
see also:
The CPS is the primary source of information on the labor force
characteristics of the U.S. population. The sample is scientifically
selected to represent
the civilian noninstitutional population. Respondents are interviewed
to obtain information about the employment status of each member of the
household 15 years of age and older. However, published data focus on
those ages 16 and over. The sample provides estimates for the nation as a
whole and serves as part of model-based estimates for individual states
and other geographic areas.
Estimates obtained from the CPS include employment, unemployment,
earnings, hours of work, and other indicators. They are available by a
variety
of demographic characteristics including age, sex, race, marital
status, and educational attainment. They are also available by
occupation, industry, and
class of worker. Supplemental questions to produce estimates on a
variety of topics including school enrollment, income, previous work
experience,
health, employee benefits, and work schedules are also often added to
the regular CPS questionnaire.
CPS data are used by government policymakers and legislators as
important indicators of our nations's economic situation and for
planning and
evaluating many government programs. They are also used by the press,
students, academics, and the general public.
Supplementary questions can be added to the CPS interview in a
particular month to gather in-depth information on specific aspects of
the labor force
or other topics. In March each year, the Annual Demographic Supplement
includes questions on income and work experience. Questions on voting,
educational enrollment, and child support are just some of the topics
periodically asked in CPS supplements. See also: our local copy of
the list of supplementary CPS
topics which includes the months and years in which they are asked
and the Bureau's page of
Related
Surveys.
CyberSchoolBus
(United Nations)
This site has
InfoNation,
an easy-to-use, two-step database that
allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date
statistical data for the Member States of the United
Nations; Global
Trends, where you can get a visual overview of what is happening
around the world in the form of charts and graphs, on topics such as
litercy, population, irrigation, food production, infant mortality, and
more; Country
at a Glance, which has a brief description of each country; and
more.
Daily
quotations on the price of Greenbacks in gold dollars, 1862-1878
(Economic History Services)
http://www.eh.net/ehnet/Databases/Greenback/
File contains 6209 daily observations of the high and low price of gold
quoted as the number of gold cents needed to buy one Greenback dollar.
From the README at the site:
"The data were used in two studies of the Greenback. The citations
are: Willard, Kristen L., Timothy W. Guinnane, and Harvey S. Rosen,
1996. "Turning Points in the Civil War: Views from the Greenback
Market." American Economic Review 86(4):1001-1018. Timothy W.
Guinnane, Kristen L. Willard, and Harvey S. Rosen, 1995. "Messages
from the Den of Wild Beasts': Greenback Prices as Commentary on the
Union's Prospects." Civil War History XLI(4): 313-328. We did not
collect the data in the usual sense; we simply copied it from the
tables in: Mitchell, Wesley C., 1903. A history of the Greenbacks.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press. That is, our only contribution
here is to provide the labor of coding the data. Before using the
data we recommend reading Mitchell's book to understand the various
sources he used to compile the tables. Contact person: Professor
Harvey Rosen, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Princeton
NJ 08544. Email: hsr@pucc.princeton.edu"
Also found at:
http://cs.muohio.edu/Databases/Greenback/
Data
About Kansas (The Institute for Public Policy and Business
Research)
The Kansas Economic Outlook and tables and graphs from the
Kansas Statistical Abstract).
The Data and Story Library
(DASL) (Carnegie Mellon University Statistics Department)
DASL (pronounced "dazzle") is an online library of small
datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics
methods. Data from a wide variety of topics, real-world
examples. Good for instruction. The archive contains two types
of files, stories and datafiles. Each story applies a particular
statistical method to a set of data. Each datafile has one or
more associated stories. The data can be downloaded as a space-
or tab-delimited table of text, easily read by most statistics
programs. Stories are classified according to statistical
methods and major topics of interest.
Data
Archive of the Henry A. Murray Research Center (Radcliffe
College)
http://www.radcliffe.edu/murray/data/index.htm
Radcliffe College
10 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
The Henry A. Murray
Research Center of Radcliffe College is a center for research on
the changing lives of American women. The center's primary purpose is
to promote the use of existing social science data to explore human
development and social change. It also promotes the secondary
analysis of longitudinal, qualitative data archived at the center.
The center's collection focuses on human development across the life
span, social change, and the lives of women. Data sets within the
collection are available for reanalysis, replication, and longitudinal
follow-up. The center has over 230 such data sets on a wide variety
of topics. The archive is part of an active research center that
offers staff assistance to data users, seminars and conferences on
methods for using existing data, research grants to doctoral students
and postdoctoral scholars, and a visiting scholars-in-residence
program.
Data holdings include studies with both female
and male subjects. One area of special emphasis has been longitudinal
studies of mental health. The Mental Health Archive includes such
important Crime Causation Study: Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency,
Harlem Longitudinal Study of Urban Black Youth, the Colorado Adoption
Project, and the Longitudinal Study of Generations and Mental Health
by Bengtson. The center collects data on such topics
as health, career development, racial and gender identity, and
political participation, as well as such major life events as
marriage, child-bearing, divorce, widowhood, and retirement.
The Center has also been developing special archives for
researchers interested in special areas Video Archive and the
Diversity Archive are two such specialized archives in which studies
are currently being pursued.
The Site includes a Searchable
Guide.
Data
Ferret (Federal Electronic Research Review and Extraction Tool) (U.S.
Census Bureau and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Data from the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the Survey of
Income and Program Participation (SIPP) are available here.
CPS data here include:
January 1994 through July 1998 Basic Monthly
February: 1998 Displaced Workers Supplement
February: 1996 Displaced Workers Supplement
February: 1996 Job Tenure Supplement
February: 1995, 1997 Contingent Workers Supplements
March: 1992 through 1997 March Supplements
March: 1998 will be released on Thursday, September 24th
April: 1995 Food Security Supplement
May: 1995 Race and Ethnicity Supplement
October: 1994 - 1996 School Enrollment Supplements
October: 1997 School Enrollment Supplement should be
available by early October 1998.
Users can navigate to find pre-made tables and can build their own
tables and extracts.
This joint project of The U.S. Commerce Department's Census Bureau and the
Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) enables users
to access and manipulate large demographic and economic data sets. It
is designed to aid not only sophisticated researchers, but also
reporters, students, government policy-makers or amateur
statisticians. The CPS is a survey of about 50,000 households that
the Census Bureau conducts for BLS, which is used to produce BLS'
estimates of employment and unemployment. It also includes periodic
supplements covering a range of topics, such as income and poverty,
health insurance coverage and school enrollment. These are published
by the Census Bureau. The SIPP, a Census Bureau survey of about
37,000 households, collects data monthly on sources of income and
participation in government-assistance programs, as well as on various
aspects of economic well-being. Among the current and future data
topics that will be accessible through FERRET are: employment, health
care, education, race and ethnicity, health insurance, housing, income
and poverty, aging and marriage, and family. FERRET allows users to
quickly locate current and historical information from these sources,
get tabulations for specific information they need, make comparisons
between different data sets, create simple tables and download large
amounts of data to desktop and larger computers for custom reports.
Data Sets from the
Peace Science Society (International)
http://pss.la.psu.edu/DATARES.HTM
Four datasets are available here.
Interstate System Membership, 1816-1997;
Militarized Interstate Dispute (version 2.10);
Territorial Changes Data, 1816-1996; and
International Trade Data (version 1.1).
Interstate System, 1816-1997:
This data set is a revised version of the state list periodically
updated and distributed by the Correlates of War (COW) Project at the
University of Michigan. This version extends the temporal domain of
the collection to 1997 and dates system membership at the day level.
This additional precision is intended to eliminate some
inconsistencies with other data sets. The most authoritative
documentation for this data set is to be found in the following
publications.
Melvin Small and J. David Singer (1982). Resort to
Arms: International and Civil Wars, 1816-1980. Sage Publications, pp.
38-46.
J. David Singer and Melvin Small (1972). The Wages of War
1816-1965: A Statistical Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 19-30.
Bruce M. Russett, J. David Singer, and Melvin Small (1968). "National
Political Units in the Twentieth Century: A Standardized List,"
American Political Science Review, 62(3):932-951.
Militarized Interstate Disputes:
This data set is a revised version (2.10) of the Militarized
Interstate Dispute (MID) data collection compiled by the Correlates of
War (COW) Project. It covers the years 1816-1992 and provides
information about conflicts in which one or more states threaten or
use force against one or more other states.
The authoritative documentation for this data set can be found in the
following publication.
Daniel M. Jones, Stuart A. Bremer and J. David Singer (1996).
"Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1816-1992: Rationale, Coding Rules,
and Empirical Patterns." Conflict Management and Peace Science,
15(2): 163:213.
Territorial Change, 1816-1996:
"The territorial change dataset is the result of the effort to
identify and code all territorial changes involving at least one
nation-state (as defined by the Correlates of War project) for
the period 1816-1996."
International Trade Data:
"This data set is version 1.1 of Katherine Barbieri's national and
dyadic trade data, which covers the period 1870-1992."
The DATAbank project
(Stat Online, France)
The STAT ON LINE DATAbank project aims to have several statistical
information databases as complete as possible, at the disposal of all
data users. These databases are, free for those in the public sector
but necessary for others to pay, and will be accessible "on line"
during the course of 1996. Social economical data for educational and
professional vocations, data on sport, culture, cinema or scientific
data. Soon you will find all data on STAT ON LINE!
The databases are available in a STATlab format
Databases
from the Center for Public Integrity
http://www.publicintegrity.org/main_resources.html
As part of the Center's extensive investigative research, we compile
numerous databases for downloading here.
The Center's mission is to provide the American public with the
findings of its investigations and analyses of public service, government
accountability, and ethics-related issues.
Databases available include:
- Assets Database
selected assets (as listed in financial disclosure records)of presidential
candidates
Lamar Alexander, Bill Clinton, Robert Dole, Phil Gramm, and Richard
Lugar;
- Honorarium Database
approximately 2,000 instances in which candidates took honorarium;
Datastream
Datastream is a private company that offers access to vast amounts of
securities, bond, options, futures, corporate, and other economic data
for a fee. The link above is to their web site that descibes their
services and also offers some "complimentary" data.
A very nice
User Guide to Datastream is maintained by Princeton University.
UCSD students faculty and staff should contact the library for
additional information about local access to the full Datastream
product.
DataZone (The
Economic Policy Institute)
The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank
that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a
prosperous and fair economy. EPI was founded in 1986 by a group of
economic policy experts, including the economist Barry Bluestone;
columnist and editor Robert Kuttner; Ray Marshall, secretary of labor
in the Carter administration; Robert Reich, former Clinton secretary
of labor; the economist Lester Thurow; and Jeff Faux, who now serves
as EPI's president. EPI is supported by grants from foundations,
corporations, labor unions, and individuals.
Data here includes
Hourly Wage Decile Cutoffs, for Men , Women , or All. Share of
Employment by Wage Multiple of Poverty Wage for Men, Women , or All.
Average Hourly Earnings by Education Level for Men, Women, or All.
Real Hourly Wages by Education, Using CPS Education Definitions
Beginning in 1992. Weekly and Hourly Earnings of Production, Non-
Supervisory Workers. Median Annual Earnings of Full-Time, Full-Year
Workers for Men and Women. Usual Weekly Earnings of Full-Time Wage
and Salary Workers, for Men, Women, or All. Median Family Income
1947-96. Share of Aggregate Income Going to Each Fifth and the Top 5
Percent of Families. Consumer Price Index, for all Urban Consumers,
Series X1 (CPI-U-X1). Changes in Family Income Group by Family Type,
1979-94. Sources of Income Growth of Top Fifth, 1979-94. Change in
Family Income Shares, 1979-94. Husbands' and Wives' Hours of Work,
1979-94. Role of Higher Wives' Earnings and Hours on Family income
Growth, 1979-94. Effect of Wives' Earnings on Income Shares Among
Married Couples with Children, 1979-94. Changes in Income Inequality
of Married Couple Families with Children, 1979-94. Growth of Average
Hourly Wages, Benefits and Compensation National Income and Product
Accounts, 1959-94. Growth of Average Hourly Wages, Benefits, and
Compensation, 1959-94.
Also, see on the EPI homepage:
Selected corrections, clarifications, and amplifications to economics
coverage in the New York Times and Washington Post; Updated weekly.
An in-depth series of numerous tables tracking trends in family income
statistics. Nine tables providing recently updated figures and
statistics on the labor market, family income, prices, GDP, wages,
poverty, trade, the budget deficit, and interest rates. Analysis of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly employment report. Published
quarterly upon release of the Bureau of Economic Analysis' quarterly
GDP report. Analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly
reports on the consumer price and producer price indexes.
Additionally, there are links to other data sources.
The Datazone
-- Spreadsheets (Economic Policy Institute)
http://epinet.org/datazone/downloadlist.html
The Economic Policy Institute
provides these
U.S. national, regional and state data tables
in spreadsheet format.
Data categories include: Wage and Compensation Trends,
Family Earnings and Income Trends, Prices, and Unionization.
Examples of tables available:
Hourly Wage Decile Cutoffs for 1973-1998 Men,Women, or All
Average Hourly Earnings by Education Level for 1973-1997 Men, Women, or All
Historical Values of the US Minimum Wage, 1960-1997
Ratio of Compensation to Wages, 1959-1997
Median Family Income, 1947-97;
Share of Aggregate Income Going to Each Fifth and the Top 5
Percent of Families 1947-1997;
Median and Mean Income of Families by Race of Householder
White, Black, or Hispanic;
Annual Hours of Work, Husbands and Wives, 1979-1996;
Effect on Family Earnings of Changes in Wives' Earnings, 1979-1996;
Income Mobility over the 1970s and 1980s;
The Growth of Income Inequality, 1989-96, Using Comparable Data;
Consumer Price Index;
Factor Income Analysis, 1959-1997;
Union Coverage in the United States,1979-1997;
Hourly Wage Rates for Low-Wage Workers by State, 1979-98;
Income Inequality by State, Late 1970s-Mid 1980s;
Median Income for Four-Person Families, by State, 1974-96;
Unemployment Rates by State and Division, 1979-97;
About EPI:
"The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that
seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve a
prosperous and fair economy.... EPI was established in 1986 to broaden
the discussion about economic
policy to include the interests of low- and middle-income workers."
Demographic
and Health Survey Data (University of Pennsylvania)
DHS Data archives of raw survey data results for a number of
African countries
Demographic and
Health Surveys Data Archive
http://www.macroint.com/dhs/dhsarch.html
DHS Data Archive
Macro International
Suite 300
11785 Beltsville Drive
Calverton, MD 20705-3119, USA
Telephone: (301) 572 0851
Fax: (301) 572 0993
E-mail: archive@macroint.com
The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program is a
project to assist developing countries to conduct and
analyze surveys on population and health. The DHS Data Archive
is a computerized archive of survey data collected from countries
in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Data are currently available for 51 countries and more are being
added as additional surveys are completed.
For each country several datasets are usually available:
Individual women's data (standard DHS survey)
Household data,
Male or husband's data (for some countries),
Couple's data (some countries),
Children's data (some countries).
Questionnaire Content:
The standard DHS survey consists of a household schedule and a women's
questionnaire. A nationally representative sample of women aged 15-49
is interviewed. The women's questionnaire contains information on the
following topics:
Background characteristics,
Lifetime reproduction,
Contraceptive knowledge and use,
Maternity and breastfeeding,
Immunization of children,
Diarrhea, fever and cough in children,
Height and weight of children,
Marriage,
Fertility preferences,
Husband's background, and
Woman's work status.
Additional modules used in some surveys include:
Natural family planning,
Social marketing,
Sterilization,
Pill compliance,
Woman's employment,
Maternal mortality,
Causes of death, and
AIDS.
Access to Data
There are presently two ways to access DHS data; (1) Direct FTP and (2)
through the traditional data archive. (When ordering data from the archive,
charges to cover data media, handling and postage are required.)
Demographic
Data Viewer (CIESIN)
http://sedac.ciesin.org/plue/ddviewer/htmls/whtst.html
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network.
DDViewer provides rapid data mapping, viewing and analysis
to the internet community. This interactive mapping tool enables
users to select geographic areas, specify variables to map,
specify map outlay parameters and color assignments. A map image
is created on the fly for each query and a descriptive summary
statistics report is provided along with the image. The tool can
also be used to browse demographic data in tabular format. All
products may be downloaded via the browser upon creation.
DDViewer currently supports U.S. Census demographic data (STF3A
1990) and Boundary Files (TIGER 1992) which cover all the U.S.
states, counties, county subdivisions, census tracts and
blockgroups for more than 200 variables of population, housing,
education, employment, etc. It can be applied more widely in
combination with other databases, such as for risk analysis with
environmental databases, or in business research using the U.S.
Census national retail databases.
Digital Chart of the
World (Penn State University Libraries)
http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/
"This web site will allow you to download the boundaries and layers of
different countries, in Arc/INFO export format, from ESRI's Digital
Chart of the World data set. Our mapping function will give you a
preview of the data. The entire data set is also available, on CD-
ROM, at the Pennsylvania State University's Social Sciences Library or
from ESRI.... The Digital Chart of the World (DCW) is an Environmental
Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI) product originally developed
for the US Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) using DMA data."
Discount
Rate, US, Historical (Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis)
The rates charged by Reserve Banks when they extend
credit to depository institutions either through advances or
through the discount of certain types of paper,
including ninety-day commercial paper.
The Dismal Scientist
Data available includes current leading economic indicators (Consumer
Credit, Nonfarm Employment, Unemployment, Average Hourly Earnings,
National Association of Purchasing Managers (NAPM) Index, Personal
Income, Consumption, Savings Rate, Durable Goods, GDP, Consumer
Confidence, Housing Starts, Housing Permits, CPI, Industrial
Production, Capacity Utilization, PPI, and Retail Sales). Also
available: data by US Region: Regions are divided into both states and
over 250 different metro areas. In addition to analysis, the Dismal
Scientist provides considerable data and enhanced ranking capabilities
for improving your own analysis of various US economic regions. For
example, you can sort on these and many more categories: Nonfarm
employment, population, unemployment, per capita income, single family
home sales, and housing stock. There are also forecasts. The Dismal
Scientist Industry section provides historical information on
different industry producer prices. The information is categorized
into different views, for ease of use, and includes Finished Goods,
Intermediate Goods, Crude Goods, and Special Groupings. In total,
there are nearly 100 different data series that are provided to assist
in making industry-specific decisions.
The site's FAQ describes its mission: "It offers comprehensive and timely
economic data and analysis, at the metro, state, and national level by
recognized economists. Our site is geared more towards small business
owners and students; people who want to use economics but aren't
economists themselves. We try to keep everything fairly non-technical
and widely applicable. The site includes forecasts, demographic
information, and thousands of economic statistics. For example, the
site provides a quick summary of major economic releases along with an
economist's perspective on its implications and a user-friendly, easy-
to-read table of the most pertinent data from the release. Users
would also find useful descriptions on the financial impact of the
release, along with strengths and weaknesses, and tips on exactly how
to better utilize the information. The Dismal Scientist also provides
useful tools to filter and better comprehend economic, demographic,
and socioeconomic information. We enable the reader to rank all 50
states and over 250 metro areas on more than 100 distinct categories.
In addition to the rankings, readers can see scores of data on one
specific region.
Dow
Jones Averages, 1930-1992 (Chance Database)
Daily Closing Dow Jones Stock Market Index.
Dow Jones
Historical Data (University of Michigan)
Includes Dow Jones stock market averages, 1885-1990
data scanned from the book "The DJ Averages: 1885-1985."
Includes high, low and close.
Dr. Ed
Yardeni's Economics Network
Chief Economist of Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in New York maintains
this site of economic and financial information. Many files
require use of Adobe Acrobat. Some files are open to the public,
others are open only if you have an account with Deutsche Morgan
Grenfell. Dated files are moved into the public archives and
free new files are constantly added.
DYNAMICS OF ECONOMIC WELL-BEING: INCOME, 1992 TO 1993
MOVING UP AND DOWN THE INCOME LADDER, P70-56 -
Fluctuations
in U.S. residents' economic well-being from one year to the
next as measured by their income relative to their poverty
thresholds; data on other factors affecting well-being
include changes in personal and family circumstances, such
as work experience, marital status, and household composi-
tion - http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/dewb93/index.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0013 - Jan. 27, 1997)
EconData
(U. of Maryland)
http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/Economics/EconData/Econdata.html
A Source of Economic Time Series Data from
INFORUM, at the University of Maryland.
Several hundred thousand economic time series, produced by a number
U.S. Government agencies and distributed in a variety of formats and
media, can be found here. They have been put into a standard, highly
efficient, easy-to-use form for personal computers and made publicly
available through this site. These series include national income and
product accounts (NIPA), labor statistics, price indices, current
business indicators, industrial production, information on states and
regions, as well as international data.
Economagic: Economic Time Series
Page (Economagic, LLP)
http://economagic.com/
The site is a comprehensive collection of freely available economic
data on the web. Includes a database of over 100,000 economic
time series all in the same text format. Data are updated by
robots the day the sources are updated. This page is meant to
be a comprehensive site of free, easily available economic time
series data useful for
economic research, in particular economic
forecasting. This site (set of web pages) was started in 1996
to help
students in an Applied Forecasting class. The idea was
to give students easy access to large amounts of data,
and to
be able to quickly get charts of that data.
At this time, there
are more than 100,000 time series for which data and custom charts
can be retrieved. Vast number of economic time series, easily
modified charts, all series available as Excel files.
The majority
of the data is USA data. The core data sets involve US macroeconomic
data. The bulk of the data are employment data by local area
-- state, county, MSA, and many cities and towns.
(16 Sep 1999 : 7349 bytes)
Econometrics
Laboratory Software Archive (ELSA) (University of California,
Berkeley)
Data available here include Lorna Greening's Integrated Consumer
Expenditure Survey data files, for 1980-1994. Data are available in
either ascii or SAS formats. Variables are labeled consistently across all
fourteen years. Also available:
Bronwyn Hall's datasets, including patents-R&D data; patents data at
the individual firm level; header information for
all the firms in the 1991 manufacturing sector master file; firms that
exited from the 1991 manufacturing sector master file (and
reasons for exit); data for productivity estimation; data for market
value estimation.
Economic Census
(US) 1992 (Oregon State University)
HTML forms allow you to select a state and then,
for a city, county, or metropolitan area, get a table of data for
service industries, or retail trade, or wholesale trade.
This is one of several databases available as part of the
Government Information Sharing
Project.
Economic
Conversion Information Exchange (ECIX) (gopher)
"The Economic Conversion Information Exchange (ECIX) Gopher is
a clearinghouse of information needed to anticipate, plan for, and
respond to, defense downsizing. The information contained within
this gopher server is the of a collaborative effort between the
Economic Development Administration (EDA) and the Economics and
Statistics Administration (ESA) within the U.S. Department of
Commerce and the Office of Economic Adjustment (OEA) of the
Department of Defense." Economic and defense data available here
include:
Military Base Closure and Realignment Status Reports;
Defense Budgets; Defense Industry and Employment Impacts;
Civilian Industry Trends; and General Economic Data.
Economic
Indicators 104th Congress
The Economic Indicator database contains the Economic Indicators
of the 104th Congress (1995-1996). The Economic Indicators
are prepared for the Joint Economic Committee by
the Council of Economic advisors and is
published monthly. Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Acrobat
Portable Document Format (PDF)files. The database is updated monthly.
These Documents are made available as part of the "GPO Access" project
of the U.S. Government Printing Office. For more search options, use the
Economic
Indicators 104th Congress link. Also see GPO Gate
for other full text searchable documents.
The
Economic Report of the President (1992-1994) (United States)
Full text of 1992-1994 Economic Reports of the President
are available from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
The
Economic Report of the President (1995) (United States)
Full text of 1995 Economic Reports of the President
are available from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
The Economic
Report of the President (1996) (United States)
The Economic Report of the President is transmitted to
Congress no later than ten days after the
submission of the budget. The Report includes; 1) current and
foreseeable trends and annual numerical goals
concerning topics such as employment, unemployment, production, real
income and Federal budget outlays 2)
employment objectives for significant groups of the labor force 3)
annual numeric goals and 4) a program for
carrying out program objectives. The data is in the form of tables and
the text and tables are available from a Table of Contents, a List of
Tables and by full text search.
Economic Report of
the President, 1999
(GPO Gate)
http://gpo.ucop.edu/catalog/erp99.html
http://gpo.ucop.edu/catalog/erp99_appen_b.html
Includes
Appendix B
Statistical Tables Relating to Income, Employment, and Production.
The Economic Report of the President is transmitted to
Congress no later than ten days after the
submission of the budget. The Statistical Appendix B provides over
100 tables in plain text and spreadsheet format. Examples:
NATIONAL INCOME OR EXPENDITURE:
Gross domestic product, 1959-98;
Real gross domestic product, 1959-98;
Quantity and price indexes for gross domestic product, and percent
changes, 1959-98;
Percent changes in real gross domestic product, 1959- 98;
Real gross domestic product by major type of product, 1959-98;
Gross domestic product by sector, 1959-98 Real gross domestic product
by sector, 1959-98;
Gross domestic product by industry, 1959-97;
Real gross domestic product by industry, 1977-97;
POPULATION, EMPLOYMENT, WAGES, AND PRODUCTIVITY:
Population by age group, 1929-98;
Civilian population and labor force, 1929-98;
Civilian employment and unemployment by sex and age, 1950-98;
Civilian employment by demographic characteristic, 1955-98;
Unemployment by demographic characteristic, 1955-98;
Civilian labor force participation rate and employment/population
ratio, 1950-98;
PRODUCTION AND BUSINESS ACTIVITY:
Industrial production indexes, major industry divisions, 1948-98;
Industrial production indexes, market groupings, 1948- 98;
Industrial production indexes, selected manufactures, 1948-98;
Capacity utilization rates, 1948-98;
PRICES:
Consumer price indexes for major expenditure classes, 1958-98;
Consumer price indexes for selected expenditure classes, 1958-98;
Consumer price indexes for commodities, services, and special groups,
1958-98;
MONEY STOCK, CREDIT, AND FINANCE:
Money stock, liquid assets, and debt measures, 1959-98;
Consumer credit outstanding, 1955-98;
GOVERNMENT FINANCE:
Federal receipts, outlays, surplus or deficit, and debt, selected
fiscal years, 1929-2000;
Federal budget receipts, outlays, surplus or deficit, and debt, as
percent of gross domestic product, fiscal years 1934-2000;
Federal receipts and outlays, by major category, and surplus or
deficit, fiscal years 1940-2000;
CORPORATE PROFITS AND FINANCE:
Corporate profits with inventory valuation and capital consumption
adjustments, 1959-98;
Corporate profits by industry, 1959-98;
AGRICULTURE:
Farm income, 1945-98;
INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS:
Civilian unemployment rate, and hourly compensation, major industrial
countries, 1973-98;
Foreign exchange rates, 1977-98.
GPO Gate is the Univeristy of
California Gateway to government information provided by the Government
Printing Office.
Economic
Statistics Briefing Room (U.S. White House)
The purpose of this service is to provide easy access to current
Federal economic indicators. It provides links to information
produced by a number of Federal agencies. All of the information
included in the Economic Statistics Briefing Room is maintained
and updated by the statistical units of those agencies. Topics include:
Output; Income; Employment, Unemployment, and Earnings
Production and Business Activity; Prices;
Money, Credit, and Securities Markets; Transportation; and
International Statistics.
Economic Time Series
Page (Ted Bos, University of Alabama at Birmingham)
http://bos.business.uab.edu/browse/
About 75,000 economic time series useful for economic research,
particularly economic forecasting. Mostly US data including
macroeconomic data and employment data by local area -- state, county,
MSA, and many cities and towns. The site was created to help students
in a college Applied Forecasting class. You can retrieve raw data,
custom charts, and Excel files for many of the most popular series.
You can search by keyword or browse through hierarchical menus.
Searching
includes the ability to search 9,000 Producer Price Index series
and the 50,000 Local Employment series. Browsing includes browsing
by state.
Sources of data include: the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the
Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Department of
Commerce, the Internal Revenue Service, the Bank of Canada, and the
American Automobile Manufacturers' Association.
Subjects include: Interest Rates, Industrial Production, Capacity,
Utilization and Electric Power Use, Retail Sales by Kind of Business,
Building Permits by Region, State, and Metro Areas, State Civilian
Labor Force, MSA Civilian Labor Force, US Nonfarm Employment, State
and City Employment, International Employment and Prices, Consumer
Price Index by Item and Place Producer Price Index by Product, Tax
Collections, National Accounts (GDP), Business Cycle Indicators (not
updated), automobile production, automobile sales, Import Penetration
into the US auto Markets. and US Public Debt.
Economics
Gopher Server (Sam Houston State University)
Sponsored by
the Department of Economics and Business Analysis, College of Business
Administration, Sam Houston State University.
Intended to ultimately to provide a wide array of economics-related
information to the networking community. Many of the files included in
this area are available for anonymous ftp access from SHSU.
Economics in the
News (Wall St. Journal, Dow Jones, W.W. Norton)
This server contains a selection of news of articles from The
Wall Street Journal that can be used for classroom discussion.
The copyright and distribution issues have been eliminated since
your students can now read the relevant articles online as soon
as they are posted. Each article contains annotation and
commentary linking the news to economic analysis. These
commentaries relate the real life headlines and stories from The
Wall Street Journal to the economic principles described in
Norton textbooks. Nowhere else on the Web can the user get such
a combination of the best news and the best analysis of economic
principles. The server is seeded with important articles drawn
from the past few years of The Wall Street Journal, and new
articles will be added to keep the service fully up to date.
Economics in the News was conceived by Hal Varian of the
University of California, Berkeley.
The
Economics/Markets/Investments Index (Media Logic
Enterprises)
A large collection of links to data. Topics include T-bills, prices,
employment and unemployment, building, business cycle indicators,
exchange rates, stocks, capacity utilization, consumer price index,
money supply, collective bargaining, loans, leading indicators,
credit, profits, energy, exports and imports, futures, options,
production, inventories, mutual funds, income, savings, producer price
index, GDP, Standard & Poors 500, bond yields, and more. Data for the
U.S. and: Canada, Germany, Japan, Italy and other countries.
Also has a comprehesive
search of economics data.
Economy at a Glance
(Bureau of Labor Statistics)
http://www.bls.gov/eag.table.html
Economy at a Glance A text version of this page is also available.
Footnotes: (1) Seasonally adjusted, in thousands (2) Seasonally
adjusted, in percent (3) For production and nonsupervisory workers
on private nonfarm payrolls, seasonally adjusted (4) Compensation,
all civilian workers, seasonally adjusted, 3month percent change
(5) Output per hour, nonfarm business, seasonally adjusted, percent
change from previous quarter at annual rate (6) All items, U.S.
city average, all urban consumers, seasonally adjusted, 198284=100,
1month percent change (7) Finished goods, seasonally adjusted,
1982=100, 1month percent change (P) Preliminary Source: Bureau
of Labor Statistics Data Home Page BLS Home Page Michael Levi
Bureau of Labor Statistics labstat.helpdesk@bls.gov Last modified:
Jun 20, 1996 URL: http://stats.bls.gov/eag.table.html
(10 Sep 1999 : 7001 bytes)
EconWPA Data
Sets
(Economics Department of Washington University)
EconWPA is devoted
to the free distribution of working papers in economics; this section
of EconWPA has pointers to data sets used in the working papers.
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT IN THE UNITED STATES:
MARCH 1995 - UNPUBLISHED TABLES -
Information on
basic educational trends and attainment levels across many
segments of the U.S. population. Tables show three basic
measures of educational attainment: high school graduate or
more; some college or more; Bachelor's degree or more. These
measures are presented for the population ages 25 and older,
cross-classified by a series of socio-demographic factors: age,
gender, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, region, labor force,
occupation and earnings - pdf format -
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/new-stat.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0017 - Mar. 24, 1997)
Environmental Treaties and
Resource Indicators (ENTRI) (CIESIN)
The Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
(CIESIN) maintains this site which includes data on countries. You can
select from a series of questions to get detailed data related to the
values of national resource indicators for one or more
country. Broad topics include: Conservation of Biodiversity,
Deforestation, Desertification and Drought, Global Climate Change,
Oceans, Population, Stratospheric Ozone Depletion,
Trade and the Environment, and Transboundary Air Pollution.
ESTIMATES OF THE POPULATION OF COUNTIES AND
DEMOGRAPHIC COMPONENTS OF POPULATION
CHANGE: ANNUAL TIME SERIES, JULY 1, 1990 TO
JULY 1, 1996 -
Population estimates for 1990 to 1996, as well
as estimates of the components that cause population to change,
such as births, deaths, and migration. Data for persons living in
group quarters, under age 65, and 65 and over also are shown -
http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/county.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0017 - Mar. 24, 1997)
ESTIMATES OF THE POPULATION OF COUNTIES:
JULY 1, 1996, AND PERCENT POPULATION CHANGE:
APRIL 1, 1990 TO JULY 1, 1996 -
Estimates of the population
in the nation's 3,142 counties as of July 1, 1996 -
http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/co96.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0017 - Mar. 24, 1997)
Eurobarometers (EUROPA)
Recent survey results and releases. Text with aggregate data tables.
EUROPINION
Continuous Tracking Survey (CTS) (Europa)
European public opinion information based on a "continual tracking"
system of public surveys. Information here includes text and tables of
aggregate data.
EXPENDITURES FOR RESIDENTIAL IMPROVEMENTS AND REPAIRS,
1ST QUARTER 1996 -
Estimates of expenditures by property owners
for maintenance, repairs, additions, alterations, and major
replacements to residential properties during the current quarter
and for specified preceding quarters, with some comparative data
for earlier years for the United States and regions. Estimates
are both unadjusted and seasonally adjusted annual rates.
Expenditures are given separately by number of housing units on
property. Detailed statistics relate expenditures to year built,
region, and payments to contractors versus do-it-yourself work,
the statistics are presented for owner-occupied one-housing-unit
residential properties - pdf format -
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/new-stat.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0015 - Feb. 24, 1997)
EXPORTS, GENERAL IMPORTS, AND IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION,
NOVEMBER 1996 -
Statistical information about the physical movement
of merchandise between the United States and foreign counties.
Includes value for current month and cumulative year-to-date by
SITC (standard international trade classification) code by
commodity groupings - pdf format -
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/new-stat.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0015 - Feb. 24, 1997)
EXPORTS, GENERAL IMPORTS, AND IMPORTS FOR CONSUMPTION,
OCTOBER 1996 (FT 925) -
Data about the physical movement of
merchandise between the United States and foreign counties;
includes value for current month and cumulative year-to-date
by SITC (standard international trade classification) code
by commodity groupings; pdf format -
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/new-stat.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0013 - Jan. 27, 1997)
FATS AND OILS-OILSEED CRUSHINGS: FEBRUARY
1997 - 20J(97)-2 -
National and selected state data on
production and stocks of vegetable oils and their byproducts. It
contains data for the current and preceding month -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m20j9702.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0017 - Mar. 24, 1997)
FEC Info
(Tony Raymond)
An alternative to the Federal Election
Commission's own web site.
Tony Raymond says he
"...worked at the Federal Election Commission from 1978 through 1996.
From his experiences in the Reports Analysis and Data Systems
Development Divisions, he wrote FECInfo an FEC software reporting
package for Federal Candidates, PACs and other committees. Tony
occasionally works as a consultant for the FEC. Goal: FECInfo's goal is
to provide information about Federal candidates (in a meaningful way)
to as many people as it can."
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC) (gopher)
Data from the FDIC publication Statistics on Banking. These
include historical data back to 1934, national data, state data, and more.
Federal
Reserve Board Data (Internet Town Hall) (gopher)
This archive contains all diskettes published by the Board
in 1993. Data here includes:
Flow of Funds Tables,
Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization (G.17),
Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization (G.17 Historical),
Reserves of Depository Institutions (H.3),
Weekly Series on Assets and Liabilities of Large Commercial Banks (H.4.2),
Selected Interest Rates (H.15 Series),
Money Stock Measures and Components, and
Other Federal Reserve Data Tables.
Federal
Reserve Board Historical Data: H.15 Selected Interest Rates
The H.15 release contains daily interest rates for selected U.S.
Treasury and private money market and
capital market instruments. It is published weekly.
The frequency of observations for most of the following series includes
daily, weekly(wed), bi-weekly(awed), monthly, and annual.
Includes the following series:
Federal funds (effective)
Commercial paper 1-month, 3-month, 6-month
Finance paper placed directly 1-month, 3-month, 6-month
Bankers acceptances (top rated) 3-month, 6-month
CDs (secondary market) 1-month, 3-month, 6-month
Eurodollar deposits (London) 1-month, 3-month, 6-month
Bank prime loan
Discount window borrowing
U.S. government securities
Treasury bills
Auction average 3-month, 6-month, 1-year
Secondary market 3-month, 6-month, 1-year
Treasury constant maturities 3-month, 6-month, 1-year, 2-year, 3-year,
5-year, 7-year, 10-year, 20-year (historical), 20-year, 30-year
Composite Over 10 years (long-term)
Corporate bonds
Moody's seasoned Aaa, Baa
A-utility
State & local bonds
Conventional mortgages
Federal
Reserve Board Historical Data: H.6 Money Stock, Liquid Assets, and Debt
Measures
The H.6 release provides data on the monetary aggregates (M1, M2, and
M3), a broad measure of liquidity
(L), and domestic nonfinancial debt and on their components.
M1 is narrowly defined money, consisting of the most liquid financial
items -- currency and checkable
deposits. M2 and M3 are broader monetary aggregates. M2 includes M1 and
what are primarily household
holdings of savings deposits, time deposits, and retail money market
mutual funds. M3 includes M2 along
with institutional money funds and certain managed liabilities of
depositories (large time deposits,
repurchase agreements, and Eurodollars). The release is published
weekly.
Some of the data reported weekly actually contain daily
(weekday) observations:
Monthly Money Stock Tables
Table 1 M1, M2, M3, and L (SA and NSA)
Table 2 Components of M1, Non-M1 M2, and Non-M2 M3 (SA)
Table 3 Time and Savings Deposits (SA)
Table 4 Money Market Funds, RPs, Eurodollars, Non-M3 Components of L and
Debt (SA)
Table 5 Components of M1, Non-M1 M2, and Non-M2 M3 (NSA)
Table 6 Time and Savings Deposits (NSA)
Table 7 Money Market Funds, RPs, Eurodollars, Non-M3 Components of L, and
Debt (NSA)
Table 8 Memorandum Items (NSA)
Weekly Money Stock Tables
Table 9 M1 and Its Components (SA and NSA)
currency, non-bank travellers checks, demand deposits, ocd's at
banks and thrifts
Table 10 M2, M3, Non-M1 M2, and Non-M2 M3 (SA and NSA)
Table 11 Time and Savings Deposits (SA)
Table 12 Time and Savings Deposits (NSA)
Table 13 Money Market Funds, RPs, and Eurodollars (SA and NSA)
Table 14 Memorandum Items (NSA)
Federal Reserve
Board of New York, Statistics Page
Daily rates (for about one week) on commercial paper, Federal Funds,
prime rate, certificates of deposit, and more. Historical data
includes:
Commercial Paper outstanding and rates 1994-present,
10am spot rates 10/93-present 12noon 1994-present,
Selected Interest Rates 10/95-08/96, and
Closing composite quote sheet 7/93-10/15/96.
Federal Reserve Economic
Data (FRED) (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
FRED provides historical U.S. economic and financial data, including
daily U.S. interest rates, monetary
and business indicators, exchange rates, and regional economic data for
Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana,
Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee.
Data include:
Daily/Weekly U.S. Financial Data,
Monthly Monetary Data,
Monthly Interest Rates,
Monthly Reserves,
Monthly Loans,
Quarterly Business/Fiscal Data,
Quarterly Gross Domestic Product and Components,
Monthly Consumer Price Indexes,
Monthly Producer Price Indexes,
Monthly Employment and Population Data,
Monthly Exchange Rate Data, and
Monthly Regional Data.
Also includes:
Federal Reserve Board Statistical Releases -- H3, H15, G17, etc.
Summary of Current Economic Conditions by Federal Reserve
District(Beige Book) and data and programs used in articles in
the journal the Review.
FEDSTATS (U.S. Federal
Interagency Council on Statistical Policy)
More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government produce
statistics of interest to the public. The Federal Interagency Council
on Statistical Policy maintains this site to provide easy access to
the full range of statistics and information produced by these
agencies for public use. FedStats' major features include: An "A to Z" index that
provides direct access to detailed data listings in 275 categories; A
keyword search
capability that enables users to search Web sites linked to FedStats;
"Fast Facts" links,
which allow users to visit either the Federal Statistics Briefing
Rooms or an on-line version of the most frequently requested tables
from the Statistical Abstract of the United States; An "Agencies" heading
that allows users to link to the Web sites of Federal statistical
agencies, or select from a menu of predetermined key words for those
agencies; A "Programs"
heading that offers 14 groups of agency data program summaries, in
areas ranging from agriculture to transportation; A "Regional Statistics"
heading that offers data that is broken down into geographic areas --
frequently at State or county levels; and Links to agency contacts, press releases, and government statistical
agencies outside the United States.
Finance
data (Ohio State University)
This excellent page points to a summary prepared
at Ohio State University on data
used in finance research on WWW and in other places. You can find
financial and economic data here. The Ohio State University Department
of Finance has archived a variety of datasets which are available here.
A few of the data sets have a small charge for use ($15 to $50).
Data available here includes:
- Annual Historical British Stock Price and
Macroeconomic Data including
stock prices and interest rates in the UK market starting in 1700. The
data are more reliable after 1820. Also production and price information
and annual share price and interest rate information starting in 1700.
- the McCulloch/Kwon US Term Structure Database;
- Business Cycle Data from Gordon Book;
Gordon's Business Cycle book
(The American business cycle : continuity and change / edited by Robert J.
Gordon. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1986 ?)
a lengthy appendix which contains finance and macroeconomic data.
- Corporate Debt Issues, 1983-93;
lists over 10,000 bonds, convertibles, Euronotes, MTNs,
Warrant bonds and other issues by company and CUSIP number (where available)
- Treasury Bond Futures Data, 1994-95;
This dataset can be used to illustrate the huge drop in bond prices which
took place in 1994. Data
contain high and low prices over 20 minute
intervals on Treasury Bond futures from Jan 7 1994 to Feb 3 1995. There are
a total of
5347 observations in this dataset. Variables in order are date, time,
high price and low
price. These data were collected by a private investor using a real time
data feed. An hourly
series is also available.
- Monthly Treasury Bill Rates, 1934-1995;
averages of daily closing bill rate.
- Consumer Price Index. Monthly, 1913-1995;
- Weekly Dow Jones Industrial Average 1900-1989;
The data is
in date, hi, low, close, volume format. A daily version of this dataset
is also available.
- Monthly U. S. Stock Returns, 1802-1925.
- Daily U. S. Stock Returns, 1885-1962.
- S&P Index, 1940-1992, monthly.
- Historical Interest Rate Data;
from Sidney Homer's book A History of Interest Rates
Includes French rates from the 1700's and Swedish rates from the 1800's.
FINDINGS ON QUESTIONS OF RACE AND HISPANIC ORIGIN TESTED IN THE 1996
NATIONAL CONTENT SURVEY -
Preliminary results of testing alternative versions of the
questions on race and Hispanic origin in the 1996 National Content Survey conducted by the
Bureau of the Census as part of its Census 2000 research and testing program -
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/96natcontentsurvey.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
FIPS Codes (U.S. National Institute of Standards and
Technology, Information Technology Laboratory)
http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/0-toc.htm#ds
"FIPS" (Federal Information Processing Standards) codes are
official, U.S. government, numeric codes for states, counties, and
metropolitan areas and are often used in numeric
data to designate geographic locations. The codes are maintained by the
U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Information
Technology Laboratory (ILT).
Some of the most often used FIPS Codes are:
FIPS 5-2:
States, the District of Columbia and the
Outlying Areas of the United States.
Two-digit codes and two-letter alphabetic codes for the 50
states, the District of Columbia and the outlying areas of the U.S., and
associated areas such as the Federated States of Micronesia and
Marshall Islands, and the trust territory of Palau.
FIPS 6-4:
Counties and Equivalent Entities of the United
States, its Possessions, and Associated Areas.
Names and three-digit codes that represent the counties and
statistically equivalent entities of the 50 States, the District of
Columbia, and the possessions and associated areas of the United
States.
FIPS 8-6:
Metropolitan Areas
(including MSAs, CMSAs, PMSAs, AND NECMAs),
Four-digit numeric code for each Metropolitan Area (MAs) in the U.S. and
Puerto Rico, including units called Metropolitan Statistical Areas
(MSAs), Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas (CMSAs), and
Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas (PMSAs), and related
units called New England County Metropolitan Areas (NECMAs). Note that
useful definitions of these concepts are also included.
Other FIPS geographic codes are available from this page as well.
State and County FIPS codes may also be found at other sites, e.g.,
at the EPA:
http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/codes/state.html, at the Census Bureau:
http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/fips.txt.
Some are available in ASCII and Word Perfect formats at a
different NIST site: (http://www.nist.gov/itl/lab/fips/).
FLAT GLASS: FOURTH QUARTER 1996 - MQ32A(96)-4 -
Data are shown on the total production, quantity and value of
shipments and the number of companies reporting shipments,
by product code. Also included are a table with aggregated
statistics on the quantity and value of shipments (in both
constant and current dollars), production, production consumed
within each firm, and inventories for the past 2 years, and a
table comparing domestic output, exports, and imports -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/mq32a964.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0017 - Mar. 24, 1997)
Foreign Labor
Statistics (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Research on comparative labor statistics is based upon statistical data
and other source materials from (a) statistical
agencies of foreign countries; (b) international and supranational
bodies such as the United Nations, International
Labour Office (ILO), Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD), and the Statistical Office
of the European Communities (EUROSTAT); and (c) private agencies such
as banks, industry associations, and
research institutions. All data are drawn from secondary sources; the
Bureau does not initiate surveys or data
collection programs abroad.
Countries covered include: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada,
Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands,
Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United
Kingdom. Series available include: Consumer Price Index,
Manufacturing Output Per Hour Index, Manufacturing Hourly
Compensation Index, Manufacturing Unit Labor Cost Index,
Manufacturing Unit Labor Cost Index, Employment, and Unemployment
Rate. Also: "Hourly Compensation Costs for Production Workers in
Manufacturing;" "Comparative Labor Force Statistics, Ten
Countries, 1959-93;" and "Consumer Price Indexes, Sixteen
Countries, 1950-94"
French Old Regime
Bureaucrats: the Intendants de Province (1661-1790) (University
of Wisconsin)
The data file contains the names of
Intendants and periods of incumbency in different intendances
(provinces). In about 20% of the cases, years of birth, years of
death, and years of entry to official service (becoming Maitre des
Requetes) are also given.
377 Intendants de Province serving during the years 1661-1790.
Compiled by John A. Armstrong, Department of
Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Provided by the Data and Program Library Service (DPLS) of the
University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Frequently
Requested NIPA Data: History (U.S. Bureau of Economic
Analysis)
Annual and quarterly National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA)
historical data (1959-95) for selected aggregates, price indexes and
implicit deflators, including real GDP, GNP, and final sales.
The Gallup Organization
The Home page for Gallup. The Organization is beginning to list
Gallup Poll results such as Bill Clinton: Presidential Approval
Ratings, 1993-1995. (There are no raw datafiles, yet, however.)
General
Social Survey (via Queens College, NY)
At this site, you can retrieve Extract, a program which permits
easy data extraction from the General Social Surveys, and also
the GSS data themselves in single year files. Extract runs on
PCs under DOS. With Extract, you can select variables and years
from the 1972-1993 General Social Surveys and then write variable
definition and data files for use with SPSS, SAS, QSTATS, or
dBASE. You can also output ASCII data files and variable lists.
The questions from the GSS codebook have been integrated into the
program to permit examination of question wording while making
your selections.
General Social Survey
Data and Information Retrieval System (ICPSR)
Here you can search all GSS documents, browse the GSS Codebooks,
perform online subsetting, and generate cross-tabs from the GSS.
The codebook includes frequecies of response over time and have
links to the annotated bibliography of studies that have analyzed
each variable. A "Trend Index" allows you to browse pre-built
cross tabulations of variables over time. This web site is a joint
project of the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social
Research (ICPSR) and the National Opinion Research Center (NORC).
GEOBASE Israel regional database
(Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
GEOBASE is organized as a geographic Data Warehouse consists of
regularly updated annual and quarterly series on topics such as:
economic activities, labor and wages, population, transportation,
tourism, housing & construction and education. Its contents is
extracted from sources such as statistical publications, local
authorities databases, public services records, and summaries derived
from individual level datasets. The main source of data is the
Central Bureau of Statistics. GEOBASE data model incorporates three
dimensions: The spatial-regional dimension - already includes all
urban localities, sub-quarters in cities, regional municipalities,
districts, sub-districts as well as main inter-locality roads. The
time dimension - consists of annual, quarterly, monthly and other
(such as censuses) items. The majority of the data is organized in
time series. The content dimension - regional aggregates of
population, labor force, incomes, transportation, tourism,
construction, dwelling, schools and other economic activities - each
series relates to one or more geographic level.
GEOBASE is a joint venture of the Social Science Data Archive and the GIS
Center at Hebrew University.
Georeferenced
Population Data Sets of Mexico (CIESIN)
The Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
(CIESIN) developed a population data collection for Mexico, drawing on
a unique set of georeferenced population data and on Geographic
Information System (GIS) technology.
The Georeferenced Population Data Sets of Mexico consists of the
following products: Population Database of Mexico; Urban Place, Time-
Series Population Spreadsheet of Mexico; Urban Place GIS Coverage of
Mexico; GIS Coverage of Mexican Localities; GIS Coverage of Mexican
States; GIS Coverage of Mexican Municipalities; and Raster Based GIS
Coverage of Mexican Population.
Included in the collection are approximately 100,000 records of
geographic and census items for Mexican states, municipalities, and
localities. The geographic records consist of state boundaries,
place names, geographic
coordinates of more
than 30,000 urban and
metropolitan places, and elevation data for more than 700 urban
places. The census records contain estimates of 1990 population
density, population by gender, and population by age bracket (below 6
years of age, between 6 and 14 years, and older than 15 years). For
706 selected urban localities, the population is traced back by
decades, from 1990 to 1921, based on census documents.
The data are available by
ftp and
additional details of available files
are also available by ftp.
Great Britain Historical
Database Online (Southall, H.R. Gilbert, D.R., Gregory I.)
http://hds.essex.ac.uk/gbh.stm
The Great Britain Historical Database is a large database of
British nineteenth and twentieth century statistics. A significant
amount of work has gone into integrating the referencing of spatial
units, and where practical assembling data for different dates
into single tables. The Great Britain Historical Database Online
contains: *statistics from the 1861 Census and the Registrar
Generals reports, 1851-1861 * employment statistics from the
census, 1841-1931 * demographic statistics from the census, 1841-1931
* mortality statistics from the Registrar Generals reports,
1861-1920 * marriage statistics from the Registrar Generals
reports, 1841-1870 * trade union statistics for the Amalgamated
Society of Engineers (ASE), 1851-1918 * official poor law statistics,
1859-1915 and 1919-1939 * small debt statistics from county courts,
1847-1913. The Great Britain Historical Database has been created
by Humphrey Southall, David Gilbert and Ian Gregory at Queen
Mary and Westfield College, Department of Geography as part of
the Great Britain Historical GIS Programme. It incorporates data
collected by David Gatley, University of Staffordshire, Clive
Lee, University of Aberdeen, Elidh Garrett, Cambridge Group for
the History of Population and Social Structure, Graham Mooney,
Institute of Historical Research, P. Furnis, and P.A. Johnson,
London School of Economics. Arts and Humanities Data Service.
ACCESS CONDITIONS The Great Britain Historical Database is intended
to assist historians with localised interests. Therefore, within
any one request to use the Great Britain Historical Database,
a user may obtain data for i) one standard region or ii) one
or more counties within any one standard region or iii) up to
four conterminous counties. Those wishing to extract data for
a national study are asked to contact the depositor to discuss
their requirements. DOCUMENTATION Full online documentation for
the available data is available from this website.
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Gross
State Product Data Tables (gopher)
Compiled from the Regional Economic Information System (REIS) issued
by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic
Analysis, and reformatted by Lou Rosenfeld, University of Michigan Library.
Guide to the
Global Financial Database (Global Financial Data)
The Guide provides detailed descriptions of financial series
avilable for sale by the company Global Financial Data. These
descriptions are useful in identifying sources of data and giving some
historical context.
In addition,
Global Financial Data offers long-term historical
financial data for a fee. They claim that "Years of
research combing libraries and historical archives have enabled us to
provide you with an historical data base which is
second to none." Data available includes stock markets, bond markets,
interest rates, exchange rates or inflation. The vendor says,
"financial data on a continuous monthly basis
back to 1693 for the stock market, 1694 for interest rates, 1624 for
exchange rates, and 1790 for inflation rates. Want daily
data for the South Sea Bubble of the 1720s? We have it. The database
covers over 50 countries so you can get the data you
need whether you are investing in the United States, Europe, or in
emerging markets. The Global Financial Database offers
almost 3000 data series out of which 1200 are current and updated every
month."
Guide
to Updating the 1990 Census of Population and Housing
(University of Michigan)
This excellent page allows you to find data and publications that
update the 1990 US Census of Population and Housing.
You choose a subject area (such as "household income" or "educational
attainment") and then a geographic level (such as "nation" or "state"
or "county" etc). A
Bibliography of Sources is also included
with cites to printed material and web sites. Some
non-census data
(e.g., births/deaths, crime, immigration, marriage/divorce,
wages) is also available.
Health and Retirement Study
(Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan)
The Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), a nationally representative
longitudinal data collection begun in
1992, provides a wealth of information about the population of Americans
of pre-retirement age.
The content of the survey was designed to reflect the analytic and
policy interests of researchers working in the
area of retirement and aging. (See the general overview of
the study by F. Thomas Juster, University of Michigan.
Health Care
Financing Administration (US)
Listings of data on Medicare and Medicaid-funded inpatient and
outpatient care, hospital wages, hospitals and more.
Health
Insurance Statistics 1991-1993 (U.S. Census Bureau)
Longitudinal data, data from the Current Population Surveys,
historical data, and more.
Coverage by sex, age, education,
race, residence and region, income to poverty rate.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ADVANCE REPORT ON DURABLE GOODS
MANUFACTURERS' SHIPMENTS AND ORDERS, DECEMBER 1996 -
Broad-based, monthly statistical data on economic
conditions in the domestic manufacturing sector; the
survey measures current industrial activity and
provides an indication of future business trends -
http://www.census.gov/indicator/www/m3adv.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0014 - Feb. 10, 1997)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE ADVANCE REPORT ON DURABLE GOODS
MANUFACTURERS' SHIPMENTS AND ORDERS: JANUARY 1997
-Broad-based statistical data on economic conditions in the domestic
manufacturing sector. The survey measures current industrial activity and
provides an indication of future business trends -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/indicator/www/m3adv.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE HOUSING STARTS AND BUILDING PERMITS
PRESS RELEASE: JANUARY 1997 -
Privately owned housing units started
and building permits authorized by type of structure and by region -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/indicator/www/housing.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0015 - Feb. 24, 1997)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE HOUSING STARTS/BUILDING PERMITS
PRESS RELEASE: DECEMBER 1996 -
Privately owned housing units
started and building permits authorized by type of structure
and by region -
http://www.census.gov/pub/indicator/www/housing.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0013 - Jan. 27, 1997)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE HOUSING STARTS/BUILDING
PERMITS PRESS RELEASE: FEBRUARY 1997 -
Privately
owned housing units started and building permits authorized by
type of structure and by region -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/indicator/www/housing.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0017 - Mar. 24, 1997)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE HOUSING UNITS COMPLETED PRESS
RELEASE: DECEMBER 1996 -
New privately owned housing
units completed and units under construction by type
of structure and by region -
http://www.census.gov/pub/const/c22_curr.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0014 - Feb. 10, 1997)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE HOUSING UNITS COMPLETED PRESS
RELEASE: JANUARY 1997 -
New privately owned housing units completed
and units under construction by type of structure and by region -
http://www.census.gov/pub/const/c22_curr.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE NEW ONE-FAMILY HOUSES SOLD PRESS RELEASE,
OCTOBER 1996 -
Estimated sales of new one-family houses in October 1996 at a seasonally
adjusted annual rate compared with September 1996 and October 1995; median and mean sales
prices of new one-family houses sold in October -
http://www.census.gov/pub/const/c25_curr.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE NEW ONE-FAMILY HOUSES SOLD PRESS
RELEASE: JANUARY 1997 -
Information on new privately owned one-family
houses sold during the month and for sale at the end of the month, together with
related annual data and figures for prior months for the United States and regions.
Tables show average and median sales prices, as well as houses sold and for sale
by stage of construction, and quarterly figures on houses sold by type of
financing - http://www.census.gov/pub/const/c25_curr.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PRELIMINARY REPORT ON
MANUFACTURERS' SHIPMENTS, INVENTORIES, AND ORDERS,
DECEMBER 1996 -
Broad-based, monthly statistical data
on economic conditions in the domestic manufacturing
sector; the survey measures current industrial
activity and provides an indication of future business
trends - http://www.census.gov/indicator/
www/m3prel.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0014 - Feb. 10, 1997)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PRELIMINARY REPORT ON MANUFACTURERS'
SHIPMENTS, INVENTORIES, AND ORDERS, OCTOBER 1996 -
Data for manufacturers
provide measures of current production levels and future production commitments; data items
include value of shipments; new orders (net of cancellations); end-of-month order backlog
(unfilled orders); and end-of-month total inventory, materials and supplies, work-in-process and
finished goods inventories (at current cost or market value) -
http://www.census.gov/indicator/www/m3prel.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE PRELIMINARY REPORT ON
MANUFACTURERS' SHIPMENTS, INVENTORIES, AND ORDERS:
JANUARY 1997 -
Broad-based monthly statistical data on economic conditions
in the domestic manufacturing sector. The survey measures current industrial
activity and provides an indication of future business trends -
http://www.census.gov/indicator/www/m3prel.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE VALUE OF NEW CONSTRUCTION PUT IN PLACE PRESS
RELEASE, OCTOBER 1996 -
Estimates of new construction put in place during October 1996
at a seasonally adjusted annual rate compared with September 1996 and October 1995; for year
to date compared to same period in 1995 - http://www.census.gov/pub/const/c30_curr.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE VALUE OF NEW CONSTRUCTION PUT IN
PLACE PRESS RELEASE: JANUARY 1997 -
Estimates of new construction
put in place during January 1997 at a seasonally adjusted rate compared with
December 1996 and January 1996; for year to date compared to same period in
1996. Also shows preliminary estimates for 1997 by type of construction -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/const/c30_curr.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
Historic
Price Index Data (Sam Houston State University) (gopher)
for United Kingdom (1600-1992), United States (1790-1992), and
Canada, Norway and Sweden (1890-1992).
Historical
Exchange Rates and more (The Netherlands Business
School, Nijenrode University) (gopher)
Includes: Cerficates of deposit, bond yields , eurodollar deposits,
exchange rates, interest rates, money supply, maturity rates. More
data is available under the menu:
Economic Data, Statistics, Trends per country .
Historical
Futures Price Data (R.F. Potts, Portland, OR)
Includes: Closing Futures Prices for All U.S. Exchanges, Most Recent
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Futures & Options Settlement Prices.
HISTORICAL INCOME TABLES - PERSONS, 1995 UPDATES -
More than 45 detailed
historical income tables from the Current Population Survey for persons, updated through 1995;
covers income by sex, race, age, Hispanic origin, educational attainment, occupation, etc. -
http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/incperdet.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
Historical
Labor Statistics Project (HLSP) (Economic History
Services Databases)
http://cs.muohio.edu/Databases/Labor/
The HLSP's first objective is to collect in
machine-readable format detailed data on American labor
markets selected from over 150 separate investigations
undertaken between 1874 and 1920 by the Bureaus of Labor
Statistics established by the governments of 29 states.
Data are provided in four formats: SAS Transport,
Stata System, Lotus WK1 Worksheet, and ASCII.
The codebooks are provided in two formats:
WordPerfect 5.1 and ASCII.
For a description
of the Historical Labor Statistics Project and an
overview of the nature of the data contained in these
data sets see:
Susan B. Carter, Roger L. Ransom, and Richard
Sutch, "The Historical Labor Statistics
Project at the University of California,"
Historical Methods 24 [Spring 1991]: 52-65.
Also at:
http://www.eh.net/ehnet/Databases/Labor/
Historical
Stock Data (StockWiz)
http://biz.swcp.com/stocks/
Historical Data for S&P 500 Stocks. This site provides a limited
amount of free historical stock data for those who wish to experiment
with technical analysis. The data base now contains a full year
of historical stock data for the S&P 500 stocks . The composition
of the S&P 500 has changed significantly since this data set
was first assembled. Please see the rules for list updates in
the following. The table of splits is easily parsed for use with
charting software. This site now offers a package to chart and
maintain stock data. The software, called Trademan, allows you
to plot 30 different technical indicators and to use any textual
source of historical data. The data provided are derived in part
from files obtained from StockWiz .
(06 Nov 1999 : 16312 bytes)
HISTORICAL TIME SERIES FOR HOUSEHOLDS AND FAMILIES: MARCH 1995 -
Detailed data on households and families by type, size, race and Hispanic origin, tenure, and own
children under 18 - http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
HISTORICAL TIME SERIES FOR MARITAL STATUS AND LIVING ARRANGEMENTS:
MARCH 1995 -
Historical tables on marital status, living arrangements of adults, and living
arrangements of children; time series go back to 1960 or 1970, but at least one table shows data
for 1890 - http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/ms-la.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
The History Data Service (Arts
and Humanities Data Service)
http://hds.essex.ac.uk/
The History Data Service provides a framework for the preservation
and supply of historical data materials held in computerreadable
form and for the exchange of information about such resources.
The work of the History Data Service includes: *establishing
a collection of historical data from a wide range of sources;
*providing the research and teaching community with information
about and access to this collection; *providing information about
and access to resources held elsewhere; *a programme of data
enrichment and enhancement for selected collections of data;
*developing network tools to enable enhanced access to these
collections; *preserving the increasing number of machinereadable
historical data files that are being created across disciplines,
both within and outside of higher education.
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HIV/AIDS Surveillance
Data Base (U.S. Census Bureau, International Programs Center)
Information on the AIDS pandemic and on the HIV seroprevalence
(infection) in population groups in developing countries is only
available in widely scattered small-scale surveys. The HIV/AIDS
Surveillance Data Base was developed and is maintained by the Health
Studies Branch, International Programs Center (IPC), Population
Division, U.S. Bureau of the Census, with funds from the U.S. Agency
for International Development. It is a compilation of information
from those studies appearing in the medical and scientific literature,
presented at international conferences, and appearing in the press.
The database was developed on the microcomputer for portability and has
a user-friendly interface. Available information for population groups
in a selected country can be easily retrieved and displayed on the
computer screen, printed in tabular
formt, or saved to an ASCII
or Lotus file.
The data base is updated twice a year. The International Programs
Center welcomes comments and suggestions from users of the data base.
IPC also welcomes copies of articles or references to information
which may have been overlooked.
Holt stock market
reports. (Bob Parks, Washington University) (gopher)
The Holt Stock Market Reports are generated at the close
of business at the New York Stock Exchange from information posted by
George Holt to The Electronic Journal Of Finance
(FINANCE@TEMPLEVM.bitnet).
They contain information on foreign markets, currency rates, gold,
interest rates, the most active
companies trading that day and many other tables of data. There is an
archive of reports available from
February 94.
HOUSING COMPLETIONS, DECEMBER 1996 -
Monthly statistics on the
number of new privately owned housing units completed and under
construction for United States and regions. The report includes
both actual and seasonally adjusted estimates for units
completed and under construction by number of housing units in
structure. Comparative data are shown for earlier years.
Quarterly statistics on characteristics of new housing appear
in selected issues - pdf format -
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/new-stat.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0015 - Feb. 24, 1997)
HOUSING COMPLETIONS, NOVEMBER 1996 -
New privately owned
housing units completed and units under construction by type
of structure and by region; pdf format -
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/new-stat.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0013 - Jan. 27, 1997)
HOUSING STARTS AND BUILDING PERMITS: DECEMBER 1996 -
Information on monthly statistics for the United States and
regions on new privately owned housing units started, authorized
in permit-issuing places; and authorized, but not started at end
of period. The report includes both monthly and
seasonally adjusted estimates of units started and authorized.
Comparative data are shown for earlier years. Data are provided
on manufacturers' shipments of mobile homes. Monthly data are also
provided for new mobile homes placed for residential use, their
average sales price, and the inventory of mobile homes on
dealers' lots - pdf format -
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/new-stat.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0015 - Feb. 24, 1997)
HOUSING VACANCIES AND HOME OWNERSHIP, FOURTH QUARTER
1996 -
Vacancy rates by area, homeownership rates by
region, homeownership Rates for the U.S.: 1965-1996,
homeownership rates by age of householder,
characteristics of vacant units by units in structure,
characteristics of vacant units by region, percent
distribution by type of vacant by region, percent
distribution by type of unit by region -
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hvs.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0014 - Feb. 10, 1997)
HOUSING VACANCIES AND HOMEOWNERSHIP: ANNUAL STATISTICS
1996 -
Data includes definitions and tables including rental
and homeowner vacancy rates by area and homeownership rates
by area, race and ethnicity of householder, and age of householder -
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/hvs/annual96/ann96ind.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0015 - Feb. 24, 1997)
HOUSING VACANCY SURVEY -
Updated historical tables that contain
annual data including the quarterly rental and homeowner vacancy
rates by units in structure, annual and quarterly estimates of
the housing inventory, median asking rent and sales price for
the U.S. and regions, and homeownership rate -
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/housing/hvs/historic/index.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0015 - Feb. 24, 1997)
HOUSING VACANCY SURVEY, FOURTH QUARTER 1996 -
Data on the
rental and homeowner vacancy rates, and characteristics of
units available for occupancy for U.S. and regions;
homeownership rates tabulated by age of householder and by
family status; estimates of the total housing inventory and
percent distributions of vacant for-rent and for-sale-only
units - http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/hvs.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0013 - Jan. 27, 1997)
HOUSING: THEN AND NOW, 50 YEARS OF DECENNIAL CENSUSES -
A fascinating look
back at our housing, from 1940 when the first Census of Housing was taken, to 1990; new tables
for states examine trends in living alone and recent movers -
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/censhsg.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
Immigration and
Naturalization Statistics (US)
This page provides comprehensive annual
immigration statistics from 1994-1996, as
well as state estimates of the United
States' illegal alien resident and
foreign-born populations, the Immigration Fact Sheet,
and a link to U.S. Census Bureau: The Foreign-Born Population.
INEGI:
The National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Information
(Mexico)
Mexico's National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics
(INEGI) is in charge of generating, incorporating, processing and
publishing information on the country's physical environment,
geographical features and natural resources, and on its population and
productive activities. The Institute uses three methods to gather
basic statistical information on Mexico's population, economy and
society: National Census, Surveys and Administrative Redords.
Some summary data tables are available online here. Also available is
information on publications.
The
Inflation Calculator (University of Pennsylvania)
Calculates how much
any given amount of money in a particular year was worth in
a later year, due to inflation.
Covers 1880 to 1994.
Program data comes from the Consumer Price Index statistics from
Historical Statistics of the United States
(USGPO, 1975) and from the annual Statistical Abstracts of
the United States.
Informal
Credit Markets (Tokyo Inst of Technology, Japan)
Set up by Hari Srinivas for work on his Ph.D. research at Tokyo
Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan. A repository of
information on informal credit markets (in the broadest sense of
the meaning). Includes infomation on informal credit, community-
based finance, community participation, microcredit, roles of
NGOs, credit access for women, linking savings and credit, design
of credit policies and programmes, credit unions and cooperatives
etc. The range of topics are kept flexible and relevant to the
overall theme of informal credit. Urban and rural areas of low-
income countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America are the
primary focus. However, as of now, most of the information
pertain to Asia.
Information
About Candidates, Parties and Other Committees
(U.S. Federal Election Commission)
A wealth of campaign finance data. Data posted
by the FEC includes: information about candidates, parties and
other committees; downloadable databases containing data about
candidates, parties and other committees; and summary files for
past election cycles. The FEC also plans to post similar data
for the latter six months of 1995 within the next five weeks.
Integrated
Canadian - American Public Use Microdata Series (ICAPUMS)
http://www.hist.umn.edu/~ipums/other.html
The Integrated Canadian-American Public Use Microdata Series (ICAPUMS)
is an SPSS .sys file which comprises three Canadian and American
census data sets. In this file, the 1871 Canadian census public use
sample has been integrated with similar samples of the 1850 and 1880
American censuses. The 1871 Canadian PUMS was created by Gordon
Darroch and Michael Ornstein at the York Institute of Social Research
at York University (Toronto, Canada) in 1979. The American PUMS are
drawn from the IPUMS files created by the Minnesota Historical Census
Projects, University of Minnesota. The ICAPUMS was created to
facilitate comparative study of the Canadian and American populations
during the late nineteenth century. These data have been fully
integrated by uniting the separate data files with a common set of
comparably coded variables. The ICAPUMS is 271,019,808 Mb and
contains information on over 724,000 individuals. The Canadian PUMS
includes over 24,000 individuals as a base sample, and more if several
forms of oversampling are employed in analysis. The American PUMS
include almost 200,000 individuals in 1850 and over 500,000 in 1880.
Further information can also be found in Lisa Y. Dillon, "Integrating
Nineteenth-Century Canadian and American Census Data Sets," in
Computers and the Humanities, vol. 30 no. 5, p 381-392.
Integrated Public Use
Microdata Series (Historical Census Projects
University of Minnesota )
http://www.ipums.umn.edu
IPUMS PROJECT
Historical Census Projects
Department of History
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
ipums@hist.umn.edu
http://www.hist.umn.edu
The IPUMS consists of twenty-five high-precision samples of the
American population drawn from thirteen federal censuses. Some of
these samples have existed for years, and others were created
specifically for this database. The twenty-five samples, which span
the censuses of 1850 to 1990, collectively comprise our richest source
of quantitative information on long-term changes in the American
population. However, because different investigators created these
samples at different times, they employed a wide variety of record
layouts, coding schemes, and documentation. This has complicated
efforts to use them to study change over time. The IPUMS assigns
uniform codes across all the samples and brings relevant documentation
into a coherent form to facilitate analysis of social and economic
change. The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series includes national
individual-level samples of the U.S. federal census for the years
1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980
and 1990. These census files are coded compatibly to allow analysis
of long-run social and economic change.
IPUMS-98 replaces IPUMS-95, and incorporates new data
and features, including:
* new preliminary samples for 1860 and 1870
* an expanded and corrected sample for 1920
* expanded documentation, including maps and other geographic tools,
enumerator instructions, and procedural histories.
* improved error correction and missing-data allocation for the
samples from 1850 through 1920
* on-line documentation in html format
* on-line extraction system to select variables and subpopulations of
interest
The development and dissemination of the IPUMS database is supported
by grants from NICHD and NSF. There is therefore no charge for the
data or on-line documentation. There is a fee for printed documentation,
however. The IPUMS Project Team:
Steven Ruggles, Matt Sobek, Patt Kelly Hall, Catherine Fitch, and
Kate Thomas.
International
Archive of Education Data (Inter-university Consortium for
Political and Social Research)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/IAED/
The International Archive of Education Data (IAED) is a project
sponsored by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the
primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to
education in the United States and other nations.
Over a period of several years, the Archive will acquire, process,
document, and disseminate data collected by national, state or
provincial, local, and private organizations, pertaining to all levels
of education in countries for which data can be made available. Data
will encompass the "inputs" to education (funding, personnel, teaching
resources, facilities, teacher and student preparation, etc.), the
variety of processes by which teaching and learning occur, and the
"outputs" of education (graduation and matriculation rates, drop-out
rates, test scores, job placements, life histories, life assessments,
etc.). The data stored in this new Archive are intended to support a
wide variety of comparative and longitudinal research through the
preservation and sharing of data resources. The Archive seeks to
serve the needs of academics, policymakers, and researchers in the
field of education.
Data from NCES will form the initial foundation of the Archive. The
Archive, housed in and operated by the Inter-university Consortium for
Political and Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan,
will preserve all of the NCES public-use research data holdings and
make these holdings, as resources permit, suitably available for
research throughout the nation and the world.
Data files, documentation, and reports are downloadable from the
website in public-use format. The website features an online data
analysis system (DAS) that allows users to conduct analyses on
selected datasets within the Archive.
Examples of data held:
Private School Survey (PSS);
Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS);
National Household Education Survey (NHES);
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS);
Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS);
National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS);
Recent College Graduates (RCG);
Adult Education Surveys;
High School and Beyond (HS&B);
National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS);
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study Program;
National Assessments of Adult Literacy;
Academic Library Survey;
International Comparisons;
School District Data Book.
The
International Data Base (U.S. Census Bureau, International
Programs Center)
The International Data Base (IDB) is a computerized source of
demographic and socio-economic statistics for all countries of the
world.
You can obtain the data through an online subsetting facility, by downloading
programs to a PC and by viewing summary tables and charts.
The IDB provides quick access to specialized information,
with emphasis on demographic measures, for individual countries or
selected groups of countries.
The IDB combines data from country sources (especially censuses and
surveys) with IPC's estimates and projections to provide information
dating back as far as 1950 and as far ahead as 2050. Because the IDB
is maintained at IPC as a research tool in response to sponsor
requirements, the amount of information available for each country may
vary.
The major types of data available in the IDB include:
Population by age and sex
Vital rates, infant mortality, and life tables
Fertility and child survivorship
Migration
Marital Status
Family planning
Ethnicity, religion, and language
Literacy
Labor force, employment, and income
Households
A complete list of
variables is available.
Data characteristics:
Temporal: Selected years, 1950-present, projected demographic data
to 2050.
Spatial: All countries of the world.
Resolution: National population, selected data by urban/rural
residence, selected data by age and sex.
Sources of the data include:
U.S. Bureau of the Census, Estimates and Projections
National Statistics Offices
United Nations and Specialized Agencies Agencies (ILO, UNESCO, WHO)
International Price Indexes
(U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
http://stats.bls.gov/ipphome.htm
Data available:
Price indexes are available for nearly all merchandise categories.
Published series are based on three different classification
structures: The SITC, (Rev.3), BEA End Use groups, and the Harmonized
System. Price indexes using the SIC-based classification system
(Standard Industrial Classification) are available prior to 1993.
Selected categories of international services are available. Monthly
indexes by locality of origin are available. Quarterly data for
selected series are available beginning in 1974 with complete coverage
available from September 1982 for imports and September 1983 for
exports. Selected series are also available on a monthly basis
beginning in 1989.
Coverage:
Product groups covered account for nearly 100 percent of U.S.
commodity imports and exports, by value.
Data are published for BEA End Use groups up to the five digit level,
SITC, (Rev.3) groups up to the three digit level, and Harmonized
System groups up to the four digit level. The SITC series tend to
contain the most historical data. Air passenger fares, import and
international (foreign carriers) since second quarter of 1988, and
export and international (domestic carriers) since the fourth quarter
of 1986. Ocean crude oil tanker freight, import and inbound since
second quarter 1987. Locality of Origin since December, 1990. These
indexes include the following categories: Japan, Canada, European
Union, Asian Newly Industrialized countries, Developed countries, and
Developing countries.
Uses:
Deflate trade statistics.
Measure import and export price trends for detailed
and aggregate product groups.
Analyze price elasticities which reflect changes in the volume of trade in
response to changes in prices or income.
Analyze terms of trade.
Analyze exchange rates.
Examples: Complete Historical Listings; Percent
Changes for the Four Most Recent Months;
Historical percent changes for one
month, three month, and 5 separate twelve month periods;
U.S. Import Price Indexes for Selected Categories of Goods;
Historical Listings for Selected Categories of Services (including import
and export price indexes and international price indexes);
U.S. Imports by Locality of Origin.
International Programs Center
(U.S. Census Bureau)
The International Programs Center (IPC), part of the Population Division of the U.S. Bureau of the Census,
conducts demographic and socioeconomic studies. This site includes data and
reports.
Data include the International Data Base and the
HIV/AIDS Surveillance Data Base. Reports include
Gender and Aging: Demographic Dimensions, World Population
Profile, Trends in Adolescent Fertility and Contraceptive Use in
the Developing World, and many others.
International
Studies Association Data Archive (Univ.of Colorado,
Boulder)
This site is intended to serve the international studies
community by advancing knowledge and cumulation in the discipline
through the public exchange of the data used in international
research. Increasingly, academic journals are developing
replication policies that mandate that quantitative data used in
research be made publically available. The ISA Data Archive is
designed in support of such initiatives, and serves as a
convenient and easily accesible facility for public archival of
international studies data.
Introducing
Italy, 1995 (Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C.)
Excerpts from the booklet of the National
Institute of Statistics of Italy - ISTAT "Introducing Italy 1995"
INVENTORIES OF STEEL PRODUCING MILLS:
JANUARY 1997 - M33J(97)-1 -
Estimates presented include
end of month inventories of warehouse service centers; and
quantity of inventories of steel in process and finished steel at
producing mills. Also included is a table comparing
manufactures shipments and imports for consumption -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m33j9701.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0017 - Mar. 24, 1997)
INVENTORIES OF STEEL PRODUCING MILLS:
SUMMARY 1996 - M33J(96)-13 -
The annual summary reports
monthly data and notes any revisions -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m33j9613.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0017 - Mar. 24, 1997)
Investment
Data Collection (Sam Houston State University)
Note: this site may no longer be available.
This site has freely distrubutable (publicly available
and non-copyrighted) investment data. It is in a variety of formats and
contributed by users. Data at this site includes exchange rates
for German Mark, Swiss Frank, Japanese Yen, and British Pound,
mutual funds, stocks, futures, interest rates, and more.
Also includes
historical
investment data which includes
Standard
and Poors 500 (Daily high, low, close, and volume from 1962-1991);
Dow Jones weekly data 1990-1992;
Japanese
Macro-Economic Data (Roger A. Downey, Sophia
University, Tokyo Japan)
Here one can perform a WAIS search of a Comprehensive Japanese
Macro-Economic Database converted to the
Business-Cycle-Indicators (BCI) Format used by Gary Langer's convenient
and free Data Manager for Windows. The database contains over 20,000
variables. Presently I hope to update the database once a year.
First time users are advised to consult cautionary notes!
Japanese
Macro-Economic Data (Sophia University,
Tokyo, Japan)
http://econom10.cc.sophia.ac.jp/needs/index.htm
Japanese Macro-Economic Data in BCI Format.
Here one can perform a search of a comprehensive database of Japanese
Macro-Economic data and download the data in the
Business-Cycle-Indicators (BCI) Format used by Gary Langer's convenient
and free Data Manager for Windows which is freely available at
http://csf.colorado.edu/pkt/bci.html. The database contains over 20,000
variables last updated in September 1995.
Japanese Macro-Economic
Data in BCI Format ( Roger A. Downey, Sophia
University, Tokyo Japan)
Here one can perform a WAIS search of a Comprehensive Japanese
Macro-Economic Database converted to the Business-Cycle-Indicators (BCI)
Format used by Gary Langer's convenient and free Data Manager for
Windows. The database contains
over 20,000 variables last updated in September 1995.
Journal
of Applied Econometrics: data from the journal ( Queen's
University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
Only authors of papers accepted after January, 1994 are
required to submit their data to the archive (when it is practical to
do so). Volume 10, No. 1 (1995) will be the first issue in which all
papers were accepted subject to this proviso.
Journal
of Business and Economic Statistics (Duke University)
This is an FTP archive of datasets used in articles published in
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics
The datasets are organized by
issue date and the first author's last name.
Journal
of Statistics Education Data Archive
Instructional data from textbooks and submitted by authors. Data
include: Datasets from The Basic Practice of Statistics, by David S.
Moore; 1993 New Car Data; US Airport Statistics; AAUP Faculty Salary
data; : NCAA Basketball Tournament Data; Cigarette data for an
introduction to multiple regression; The Statistics of Poverty and
Inequality; Population at Risk and Death Rates for an Unusual Episode;
US Interstate System; and more. Most datasets are very small; many are
accompanied by the full text of the article from the Journal.
Journal
of the American Statistical Association: data from the journal
(Carnegie Mellon)
Latin
America and The Caribbean Selected Economic and Social Data
(University of Texas, Latin American Network Information Center)
The Latin American Network Information Center has brought together data
from a wide variety of sources and made them available here in easy to read
table-format. There are country-specific data tables and country-comparison
data tables. Also see the
UT-LANIC Home Page.
Examples: data are available on:
democracy,
economy, education, environment, foreign
assistance, health, investment, nutrition, poverty, and trade.
Regional
Indicators population, Gross Domestic Procduct, Consumer
Price Index, capital inflow, transfers of resources, direct foreign investment,
exports and imports and trade balance, debt, life expectancy,
fertility rates, and child mortality rates.
Regional
Comparisons: access to health services, newspaper circulation,
adult literacy,
education expenditures, military expenditures, inflation rate, debt service,
and more.
The Latin America
Development Archive (LADARK) (Johns Hopkins University)
LADARK contains data sets and other information useful to social
scientists who are doing research on Latin
American development. These materials may be copied freely for
scholarly research and educational purposes.
These data sets have been produced by research projects
undertaken by faculty members in the Program in Comparative
International Development at Johns Hopkins University.
The data sets are provided in two versions, a
text (ASCII) version and a binary SPSS system file. Includes:
Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.,
Caribbean Urbanization in the Years of the Crisis,
Adaptation Process of Cuban and Haitian Refugees, and
City Population Datasets.
Leading
Economic Indicators (Full History of Composite Indexes) (The
Conference Board)
The composite indexes of leading, coincident, and lagging indicators
are summary statistics for the U.S. economy.
Data available here includes
Leading, Coincident, and Lagging Composite Indexes, and
Leading, Coincident, and Lagging 6-month Diffusion Indexes; January 1959
to present.
The data are available in plain text and as spreadsheet file.
The composites and diffusion indexes are updated each month by
The Conference Board as part of their Business Cycle Indicators
program.
Descriptions and explanations of the components are also available.
The Lijphart Elections Archive
(University of California, San Diego)
The Lijphart Elections Archive, housed at the University of
California, San Diego campus, is a research collection of district
level election results for approximately 350 national legislative
elections in 26 countries. The objective of the Archive is to
systematically collect election statistics in as much detail as
possible, including, as a minimum, the results at the level of the
individual election districts in which votes are converted into seats.
The Archive originally acquired print copies of the data and is now
focusing on online data. The catalog of holdings details archive
holdings of both print and online data as well as access to data when
it can be freely disseminated. In addition the catalog links to other
sources of online election data and information that can be found on
the internet.
The
Luxembourg Income Study
The LIS databank has a total of over 60 datasets of
social and economic data collected in household surveys from
different countries covering the period
1968 to 1994.
The dataset is accessed globally via electronic mail
M20A(96)-10 - FLOUR MILLING, OCTOBER 1996 -
Data on wheat and rye flour production;
monthly data include production of flour and millfeed, quantity of grains ground, stocks of
ground flour, and average weight per cwt sack of flour and millfeed -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m20a9610.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
M20A(96)-12 - FLOUR MILLING, DECEMBER 1996 -
Data on
wheat and rye flour production; monthly data include
production of flour and millfeed, quantity of grains
ground, stocks of ground flour, and average weight per
cwt sack of flour and millfeed -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/
m20a9612.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0014 - Feb. 10, 1997)
M20A(97)-1-FLOUR MILLING-JANUARY 1997 -
National and some state data
for the current and preceding months on the quantity of wheat flour produced,
grain consumed, and rye flour and millfeed production. Included is a summary of
wheat flour milling production, wheat ground for flour, mill stocks and daily
24-hour capacity. Tables also show monthly wheat flour exports, wheat donated
for relief or charity by country, and domestic output compared to estimated
exports - http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m20a9701.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
M20J(96)-12 - FATS AND OILS-OILSEED CRUSHINGS, DECEMBER 1996
-
Data for over 20 types of products produced by crushing
oilseeds; data collected at the 7-digit SIC product level
include: production of vegetable oil and end of month
stocks; shipments of byproducts and end of month stocks; and
receipts, crushings, and stocks of major raw materials -
http://www.census.gov/cir/www/m20j.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0013 - Jan. 27, 1997)
M20J(97) - 1 - FATS AND OILS--OILSEED CRUSHINGS - JANUARY 1997
-
Monthly reports present national and selected state data on
production and stocks of vegetable oils and their byproducts. It
contains data for the current and preceding month. Also included
is a table comparing selected domestic production to estimated
imports and exports, and apparent consumption. Data
are collected for over 20 types of products produced by crushing
oilseeds - http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m20j9701.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0015 - Feb. 24, 1997)
M20K(96)-12 -FATS AND OILS, PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION,
AND STOCKS, DECEMBER 1996
-Data for over 20 types of
oils and fats; product data include production of
refined fats and oils, consumption of crude in
refining, consumption in end products, and end-of-period stocks -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/
industry/m20k9612.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0014 - Feb. 10, 1997)
M20K(97)-1-FATS AND OILS, PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION, AND
STOCKS-JANUARY 1997 -
National data for the current and preceding months
on production, consumption, and factory and warehouse stocks of selected edible
and inedible oils. A summary table on consumption of selected fats and oils
is also shown for the current month and preceding month. Also included is a table
on the supply and distribution of selected oils and inedible tallow and grease for
the current and preceding month -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m20k9701.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
M22P(96)-11 - CONSUMPTION ON THE COTTON SYSTEM AND STOCKS,
DECEMBER 1996 -
Data from consumers include consumption and
stocks of domestic and foreign cotton by staple length;
number of spindles in place; number of active spindles;
number of hours spindles operated; consumption and stocks of
manmade fiber staple by fiber type; consumption and stocks
of linters by type of consumer; warehouses provide data on
stocks of cotton held -
http://www.census.gov/cir/www/m22p.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0013 - Jan. 27, 1997)
M22P(96)-13-CONSUMPTION ON THE COTTON SYSTEM AND STOCKS
-1996 SUMMARY -
Annual report summarizes monthly data and notes revisions
on a calendar year basis. Tables include data on consumption and stocks of
cotton, man-made fiber staple by type of material, and stocks of cotton held at
public storage and at compresses. Another table presents data on cotton spindles
in place and spindle hours operated by major kind of business and type of fiber
spun. Exports and imports of cotton, linters, and manmade fiber staple and tow
are presented by country of destination or origin. Information is provided on
world supply and distribution of cotton, with comparable data for the U.S. -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m22p9613.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
M22P(97) - 1 - CONSUMPTION ON THE COTTON SYSTEM AND STOCKS
- JANUARY 1997 -
Information includes state and national data
for the current period with comparable data for preceding periods.
Tables include data on consumption and stocks of cotton, manmade
fiber staple by type of material, and stocks of cotton held at
public storage and at compresses. Another table presents
data on cotton spindles in place and spindle hours operated by
major kind of business and type of fiber spun. Exports and
imports of cotton, linters, and manmade fiber staple and tow
are presented by country of destination or origin.
Information is provided on world supply and distribution of
cotton, with comparable data for the U.S.-
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m22p9701.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0015 - Feb. 24, 1997)
M28AT(96)-12 - PRODUCTION AND STOCKS OF TITANIUM DIOXIDE,
DECEMBER 1996 -
Data on production and stocks of titanium
dioxide, as well as production, exports, imports, and
apparent consumption of titanium dioxide -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m28at9612.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0013 - Jan. 27, 1997)
M28AT(97) - 1- PRODUCTION AND STOCKS OF TITANIUM DIOXIDE -
JANUARY 1997 -
Data on production and stocks of titanium dioxide,
as well as production, exports, imports, and apparent consumption
of titanium dioxide -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m28at9701.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0015 - Feb. 24, 1997)
M32G(96)-10 - GLASS CONTAINERS, OCTOBER 1996 -
Data for 15 types of glass
containers; product data at the 7-digit SIC level include; total production, net packed weight
produced, quantity of shipments, and end of month stocks -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m32g9610.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
M33D(96)-12-ALUMINUM INGOT AND MILL PRODUCTS-DECEMBER
1996 -
Information includes tables on gross shipments, net of shipments and
inventories by type of producer. Data are shown on the inventories, quantity and
value of shipments and on the number of companies reporting shipments, by type
of aluminum shape. Also included is a table comparing domestic output, exports,
and imports - http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m33d9612.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
M33D(97)-11 - ALUMINUM INGOT AND MILL PRODUCTS, NOVEMBER
1996 -
Data for over 15 types of mill products; ingot data
include gross shipments, net shipments, total value of
shipments, and ingot and scrap inventories, by type of
producer. Mill product data at the 7-digit SIC level include
gross shipments, net shipments and total receipts -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m33d9611.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0013 - Jan. 27, 1997)
M33D(97)-11- ALUMINUM INGOT AND MILL PRODUCTS - NOVEMBER
1996 -
Reports provide summary tables for current and previous
months. Tables include gross shipments, net of shipments and
inventories by type of producer. Data are shown on the
inventories, quantity and value of shipments and on the
number of companies reporting shipments, by type of aluminum
shape. Also included is a table comparing domestic output,
exports, and imports -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m33d9611.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0015 - Feb. 24, 1997)
M33J(96) -12 - INVENTORIES OF STEEL PRODUCING MILLS -
DECEMBER 1996 -
Twelve reports present national estimates for
the current and 12 preceding months. Estimates presented include
end of month inventories of warehouse service centers; and
quantity of inventories of steel in process and finished
steel at producing mills. Also included is a table comparing
manufacturers' shipments and imports for consumption -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m33j9612.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0015 - Feb. 24, 1997)
M33J(96)-11 - INVENTORIES OF STEEL PRODUCING MILLS, NOVEMBER
1996 -
Steel mills provide end of month inventory data on
steel in progress and finished steel; inventory data on steel
service centers are obtained from industry sources -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m33j9611.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0013 - Jan. 27, 1997)
M37G(96)-10 - CIVIL AIRCRAFT AND AIRCRAFT ENGINES, OCTOBER 1996 -
Data for 9
types of planes and 6 types of engines; product data at the 7-digit SIC level include the quantity
and value of shipments - http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m37g9610.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
M37G(96)-11 - CIVIL AIRCRAFT AND AIRCRAFT ENGINES, NOVEMBER
1996 -
Data for 9 types of planes and 6 types of engines;
product data at the 7-digit SIC level include the quantity
and value of shipments -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m37g9611.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0013 - Jan. 27, 1997)
M37L(96)-10 - TRUCK TRAILERS, OCTOBER 1996 -
Data for over 30 types of truck trailers;
product data at the 7- digit SIC level include quantity and value of shipments -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/m37l9610.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
MABLE/GEOCORR
Geographic Correspondence Engine
Geocorr is an interactive, web based geographic correspondence engine
which allows users to relate geograhies. It perform this function by
accessing the census block based Master Area Block Level Equivalency
(MABLE). You use GEOCORR to generate custom "correlation lists"
as reports and/or files. Geocorr does not access demographic data.
This code was developed by John Blodgett and is a joint project of
The Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
(CIESIN)'s SocioEconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) and the
Urban Information Center - U. of Missouri St. Louis.
The above link is to University of Missouri, a mirror site at CIESIN is
also available.
MANUFACTURING AND TRADE INVENTORIES AND SALES REPORT:
DECEMBER 1996 -
Data on dollar value of retail sales and sales for
selected establishments; a subsample of firms also provides data
on the value of end-of-month inventories; data on dollar values
of merchant wholesalers' sales and end-of-month inventories; data
for manufacturers current production levels and future
production commitments. Data items include value of shipments;
new orders (net of cancellations); end-of-month total inventory;
materials and supplies; work-in-process and finished goods
inventories - http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/fullmtis.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0015 - Feb. 24, 1997)
MANUFACTURING AND TRADE INVENTORIES AND SALES, NOVEMBER 1996
-
Data on dollar value of retail sales and sales for
selected establishments; a subsample of firms also provide
data on the value of end-of-month inventories; data on dollar
values of merchant wholesalers sales and end-of-month
inventories; data for manufacturers current production levels
and future production commitments. Data items include value
of shipments; new orders (net of cancellations);end-of-month
total inventory, materials and supplies, work-in-process and
finished goods inventories -
http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/fullmtis.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0013 - Jan. 27, 1997)
MANUFACTURING AND TRADE INVENTORIES AND SALES, OCTOBER 1996 -
Monthly Retail Trade: Retail firms provide data on dollar value of retail sales and sales for
selected establishments; a subsample of firms also provide data on the value of end-of-month
inventories; Monthly Wholesale Trade: Companies provide data on dollar values of merchant
wholesalers sales and end-of-month inventories; Manufacturers: Data for manufacturers current
production levels and future production commitments; data items include value of shipments;
new orders (net of cancellations); end-of-month total inventory, materials and supplies,
work-in-process and finished goods inventories -
http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/fullmtis.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
MANUFACTURING AND TRADE INVENTORIES AND
SALES: JANUARY 1997 -
Data on dollar value of retail sales
and sales for selected establishments; a subsample of firms also
provides data on the value of end-of-month inventories; data on
dollar values of merchant wholesalers' sales and end-of-month
inventories; data for manufacturers current production levels
and future production commitments -
http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/fullmtis.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0017 - Mar. 24, 1997)
Media Logic Economic
Search Page
This is a really special site. Well organized and index with links
to a large number of web sites.
A WWW search form allows you to choose among several General Economic
Topics (Industry, Agriculture, Business, Consumer, Government) and
Economic Indicators (Indicators,
Composite Indexes,
Labor Force, Employment, and Unemployment,
Output, Production, and Capacity Utilization,
Sales, Orders, and Deliveries,
Fixed Capital Investments,
Inventories and Inventory Investment,
Prices,
Profits and Cash Flow,
Wages, Labor Costs, and Productivity,
Personal Income and Consumer Attitudes,
Saving,
Money, Credit, Interest Rates, and Stock Prices,
National Defense,
Exports and Imports, and
International Comparisons.
Retrieval may include your choice of data, news, company information, and
more.
MediStat
(National University of Singapore)
MEDISTAT is an on-line information system for health and population
statistics.
Data will be available on Asia, Singapore and the world, but
the system is being built and is incomplete. Check the site for
current coverage.
Migration News
(University of California, Davis)
Mostly text, but includes numeric information.
The
Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, 1990/1991 - 1994/1995 University
of Wisconsin. Data and Program Library Service (DPLS))
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/choice/choice_index.html
The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program data were collected as
part of annual evaluations of the Milwaukee Parental Choice
Program. That program began in the fall of 1990 and continues
as these data are being released. The program was designed to
provide opportunities for poor students in Milwaukee Public
Schools. In lieu of tuition, the State of Wisconsin paid the
private schools what the Milwaukee Public Schools would have
received in state aid for each student. The program is the
first in the United States to provide major subsidies to
private schools as part of a general voucher program.
The
Missouri State Census Data Center (MSCDC) Library of Data Holdings
Data in the areas of Agriculture, Compendia, Economic Indicators,
Education, Employment, Health, Geography/GIS,
and Population.
A tool (uexplore) permits a web browser to explore the
contents of UNIX directories.
Selecting (clicking on) some filenames will cause them to be displayed by your
browser. In the case of special "data" files -- those with
actual data as opposed to reports or metadata -- a menu of
special applications that can be run to help you access
that particular type of data will be displayed. The most
important of these are the xtract data extraction application,
and hypercon ("hyper-linked contents".) The
latter lets you see very detailed data-dictionary type
metadata pertaining to the file; the former lets you extract
and download (through your browser) selected data
extracted from the file. Data can be requested in any of 5
formats, including comma-delimited, HTML and .dbf.
Monthly Bulletin of
Statistics (Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel)
Climate, population, vital statistics, health, migration, tourism,
balance of payments, national accounts, foreign trade, finance, price
indexes, labor, wages, agriculture, industry, energy, construction,
commerce, hotels, transport, communications, courts and crime.
Monthly
Energy Review (U.S. Department of Energy)
The US Department of Energy's Monthly Energy Review (MER), a
publication that compiles "aggregate energy statistics", has recently
been enhanced by the addition of a searchable database. Users can
query over sixty tables from the publication, choose variables from
each table, and retrieve annual (1973-96) or monthly (the last "two or
three" years) data. Retrieval is available in HTML or ASCII text
(comma delimited files). MER is also available in ASCII text, .wk1, or
.xls format. Historical databases are available in Microsoft Access
or ASCII delimited text. Topics include:
Energy Production by Source, Energy Consumption by Source,
Energy Net Imports by Source, Merchandise Trade Value,
Cost of Fuels to End Users in Constant Dollars, Energy Consumption per
Dollar of GDP, Passenger Car Efficiency, Energy Consumption by End-Use
Sector, Crude Oil, Petroleum, Natural Gas, Oil and Gas, Coal, Electricity,
Nuclear Energy, Energy Prices, International Energy, and
Thermal Conversion Factors.
Monthly
interest rates, 1970-1993 (Copyright 1995 San Diego
Union-Tribune)
Includes:
federal funds rate,
3-month T-bill rate, secondary market,
10-year treasury constant maturity rate,
30-year treasury constant maturity rate,
discount rate (Federal Reserve Bank of New York),
prime lending rate charged by commercial banks,
Moodys seasoned coporate AAA bond yields, and
trade weighted value of the dollar.
MONTHLY RETAIL TRADE, SALES AND INVENTORIES, NOVEMBER
1996 -
Data for the United States, regions, divisions,
selected metropolitan areas, selected cities, and
selected states on estimates of monthly retail sales
by major kind-of-business groups and selected
individual kinds of business. Comparable data are
shown for the prior 12 months, in addition to the
percent change from the previous month, the same month
in the previous year, and cumulative months for the
current year compared to similar months for the
previous year - pdf format -
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/new-stat.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0014 - Feb. 10, 1997)
MONTHLY RETAIL TRADE, SALES AND INVENTORIES: DECEMBER
1996 -
Data for the United States, regions, divisions, selected metropolitan areas,
and selected cities on estimates of monthly retail sales by major kind-of-business
groups and selected individual kinds of business. Comparable data are shown for
the prior 12 months, in addition to the percent change from the previous month,
the same month in the previous year, and cumulative months for the current year
compared to similar months for the previous year - pdf format -
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/new-stat.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
MONTHLY WHOLESALE TRADE, DECEMBER 1996 -
Companies
provide data on dollar values of merchant wholesale
sales, end-of-month inventories, and methods of
inventory valuation -
http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/mwts.html <
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0014 - Feb. 10, 1997)
MONTHLY WHOLESALE TRADE, SALES AND INVENTORIES, OCTOBER 1996 -
October 1996 sales of merchant wholesalers, after adjustment for seasonal variation and
trading-day differences but not for price changes; October 1996 sales of merchant wholesalers,
after adjustment for seasonal variation and trading-day differences but not for price
changes; and stock/sales ratio - http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/mwts9610.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
MONTHLY WHOLESALE TRADE: JANUARY 1997 -
Companies provide data on dollar values of merchant wholesale
sales, end-of-month inventories, and methods of inventory
valuation - http://www.census.gov/svsd/www/mwts.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0017 - Mar. 24, 1997)
Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report
(U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
This weekly publication is available in PDF format and by email
subscription. The data in the weekly MMWR are provisional, based on
weekly reports to CDC by state health
departments. The reporting week concludes at close of business on
Friday; compiled data on a national basis
are officially released to the public on the succeeding Friday.
Additional information available at this site include: Bulletins from
Around the World,
The National Electronic Telecommunications System for Surveillance
(NETSS) -- a computerized public
health surveillance system that provides weekly data on cases of
nationally notifiable diseases, links to health departments and
organizations of US states, international organization, and other
countries.
MOTOR FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION AND
WAREHOUSING SURVEY: 1995 -
Detailed estimates of
operating revenues and expenses for the for-hire trucking and
public warehousing industries, as well as inventories of
revenue-generating freight equipment for the trucking
industry at the United States level - pdf format -
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/new-stat.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0017 - Mar. 24, 1997)
MQ22T(96)-4-BROADWOVEN FABRICS-FOURTH QUARTER -
Statistics
on the production of broadwoven fabrics, tire cord, and other types of fabrics.
Data are presented on production and loom assignments, looms in place, and
loom-hours operated. Summary tables show production data by class of fabric
and a comparison of domestic output with imports and exports -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/mq22t964.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
MQ23A(96)-3- APPAREL, THIRD QUARTER 1996 -
Data for
over 70 types of apparel. Data include quantity of
production and value of shipments of men's and junior
boys', misses' and juniors', children's and infants,
and women's apparel - http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/
industry/mq23a963.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0014 - Feb. 10, 1997)
MQ28A(96)-3 - INORGANIC CHEMICALS, THIRD QUARTER 1996 -
Data for over 50 types
of inorganic chemicals; product data at the 7-digit SIC level include total quantity of production
and end-of quarter stocks - http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/mq28a963.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
MQ28A(96)-4-INORGANIC CHEMICALS-FOURTH QUARTER 1996 -
Statistics on primary production and end-of-quarter stocks for specified inorganic
chemicals for the current and preceding quarters, with comparative figures for the
current quarter of the previous year. A summary table shows the quantity of
production for eight of the principal inorganic chemicals for the current quarter
and each of the preceding eight quarters. Also included is a table comparing
domestic output, exports, imports, and apparent consumption -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/mq28a964.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
MQ28B(96)-3 - FERTILIZER MATERIALS, THIRD QUARTER 1996 -
Data for over 35 types
of inorganic fertilizer; data at the 7- digit SIC level include production, quantity of shipments,
and stocks held at producing plants; also collected are nitrogen and phosphoric content of
selected materials - http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/mq28b963.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
MQ28C(96)-4-INDUSTRIAL GASES-FOURTH QUARTER 1996 -
Data on
quantity of production of specified gases, by type, for the current and preceding
quarters, with comparative data for the current quarter a year ago. Tables show
data by gaseous, liquid, or solid form, where applicable, and by cylinder, or for
consumption in the producing plant. Also included is a table comparing domestic
output, exports, and imports -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/mq28c964.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
MQ31A(96)-04-FOOTWEAR PRODUCTION-FOURTH QUARTER 1996 -
Data on quantity of production by size category, and on quantity and value of
shipments of shoes and slippers. Also included are estimates on production and
shipments of footwear with sole vulcanized to fabric upper; data on production
and shipments of rubber and plastic protective footwear; and a table comparing
domestic output, exports, and imports -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/mq31a964.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
MQ32A(96)-3 - FLAT GLASS, THIRD QUARTER 1996 -
Product data for over 10 types of flat
glass; data at the 7-digit SIC level include production by square feet and weight; quantity
produced and consumed on site; and total quantity and value of shipments -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/mq32a963.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
MQ32D(96)-4-CLAY CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS-FOURTH QUARTER
1996 -
Data include quantity of production and quantity and value of shipments
of brick (building or common and face) by geographical region. A summary
table shows production and value of shipments of various clay construction
products, by type, for the current quarter and each of 8 preceding quarters. Also
included is a table comparing domestic output, exports, and imports -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/mq32d964.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
MQ34E(96)-4-PLUMBING FIXTURES-FOURTH QUARTER 1996 -
Statistics
on plumbing products include quantity of production and stocks and on the
quantity and value of shipments by type of materials (including plastics
fixtures) and principal types of fixtures. Also included is a table comparing
domestic output, exports, and imports -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/mq34e964.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
MQ35W(96)-3 - METALWORKING MACHINERY, THIRD QUARTER 1996 -
Product data
for over 90 types of machine tools; data at the 7-digit SIC level include quantity and value of
shipments, value of unfilled orders, export shipments, and identification of products that
incorporate numerical controls - http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/mq35w963.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
MQ36C(96)-4-FLUORESCENT LAMP BALLASTS-FOURTH QUARTER
1996 -
Data are shown on the quantity and value of shipments, and the number of
companies reporting shipments, by type of product. Also included are a
summary table for the quantity and value of shipments, by class of product for
the current quarter, with comparative data for the 16 preceding quarters; and a
table comparing domestic output, exports, and imports -
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/industry/mq36c964.txt
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
NAFTA Tracking
WWW Database (University of California, Los Angeles)
The North American Integration and Development (NAID) Center was
created to conduct ongoing research concerning NAFTA (the North
American Free Trade Agreement) and North
American integration, and to assist communities and governments with
policies and investment projects for sustainable and equitable
development across borders. Towards this goal, the NAID Center seeks
to build linkages among a wide variety of institutions and
organizations in North America. Researchers at the NAID Center have
developed a unique capacity to monitor and model the impacts of North
American integration and the adjustment process. The NAID analyzes
and provides WWW access to U.S. company lay-off reports collected by
the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
graphs and charts are created by NAID Center staff from various
sources that track the ongoing economic integration between the United
States and Mexico.
Data available include:
Query Gateway to Trade Adjustment Assistance Data;
Query Gateway for County-based NAFTA TAA Data and Employment Information;
Query Gateway to Import Change and NAFTA TAA Data;
Summary Maps of the NAFTA Trade Adjustment Assistance Data; and
Data on North American Economic Integration.
Also contains links to
other information about NAFTA and border issues.
National (US)
Budget Simulation ( Univ. of California, Berkeley)
The National Budget Simulation is a project of UC-Berkeley's Center
for Community Economic Research and was created by Anders Schneiderman
and Nathan Newman. This simulation asks you to cut the 1995 fiscal
deficit in order to achieve a balanced budget. The simulation allows you
to cut and increase programs of your choice. This site also includes
links to Sources of Information on the Federal Budget.
National
Accounts and Macroeconomic data (Christian Zimmermann)
Christian Zimmerman (Assistant professor, Department of Economics,
Universite du Quebec)
has posted here the data he used for his papers.
These are quarterly national accounts and other macroeconomic aggregates
for about twenty countries. Texts of his papers and tables are available in
addition to the data.
National Agricultural Statistics
Service (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Includes: Historic Data Products, State Statistical Offices,
Agricultural Statistics Graphics.
National
Archive of Criminal Justice Data (ICPSR)
The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) was
established in 1978 under the auspices of the Inter-university
Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), U.S. Department of Justice.
NACJD currently holds over 500 data collections relating to crime
and criminal justice. This website provides browsing and
downloading access to most of this data and documentation. You
can search or browse holdings. Some publications based on the
data here are available directly from the
Bureau of Justice
Statisics
National Bureau
of Economic Research -- online data
Includes
Penn-World Tables 5.6;
NBER Macro History Database;
NBER Official Business Cycle Dates;
Gray and Bartelsman Manufacturing Industry Productivity Database;
Imports by SIC category 1958-1992 (From Robert Feenstra);
Consumer Expenditure Survey Extracts by John Sablehaus (of the CBO); and
Segregation Data (Cutler, Glaeser and Vigdor). NBER also maintains an
anonymous FTP server.
National Bureau of Economic Research, Macro History Database
During the first several decades of its existence, the National Bureau
of Economic Research (NBER) assembled an extensive data set that covers
all aspects of the pre-WWI and interwar economies, including production,
construction, employment, money, prices, asset market transactions,
foreign trade, and government activity. Many series are highly
disaggregated, and many exist at the monthly or quarterly frequency.
The data set has some coverage of the United Kingdom, France and
Germany, although it predominantly covers the United States.
You can browse the site using the link above or
search the site:
The National Clearinghouse for
Alcohol and Drug Information
The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) is
the information service of the
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health
& Human Services. NCADI is
the world's largest resource for current information and materials
concerning substance abuse prevention. Data available here tends to
be text accompanied by aggregate tables.
The National Health
Survey Report (Felix, Burdine & Associates Inc.)
The National Health Survey is based on responses from a sample of more
than 2,500 randomly selected individuals from
across the United States to a 194-item survey instrument. The survey
was completed in July 1995 with a response rate of
almost 70%. The National Health Survey Report was written to
communicate the information collected through The National Health
Survey in a concise and useable format. This document is organized so
the reader can approach the information from
several points of view. Areas covered include:
General Health Status,
SF-12 Functional Status Assessment,
Utilization of Health Care Services,
Human Services Utilization,
Risk Behaviors and Health Habits,
Women's Health Issues,
Morbidity Experience,
Mental Health and Suicide, and
Satisfaction with Health Insurance Components.
National
Income & Product Accounts Data Visualization System
(University of Virginia)
This service allows you to choose NIPA series, graph them, and obtain
the series as HTML tables and raw data.
Functionality: You
can choose from one of several categories of data, then choose one
or more tables from that category and choose annual or quarterly, and
finally choose one or more items from the tables. The results you obtain
include a chart, an HTML table of the data, and an opportunity to ftp a copy
of the raw data you have chosen.
Content: The data are presented in two historical series - Annual and
Quarterly - from 1959 forward, and were obtained from the STAT-USA
(BEA) WWW site.
National income and product accounts (NIPA) show the value and
composition of the Nation's output and the distribution of incomes
generated in its production. The accounts include estimates of gross
domestic product(GDP) - the market value of the Nation's output of
goods and services - in current and real terms, GDP price measures,
the goods and services that make up GDP in current and real terms,
national income, personal income, and corporate profits. In addition,
BEA produces specialized measures such as estimates of auto and truck
output, GDP of corporate business, housing output, and business
inventory and sales. Estimates of gross product originating by
aindustry are prepared annually in current and real terms. Measures
of the inventory and fixed capital stocks consistent with NIPA output
measures are also provided. Further, the accounts provide a
consistent framework within which estimates of analytic interest -
such as the role of research and development in the U.S. economy or
the interaction of the economy and environment - can be studied.
Data conversion, statistical programming, and html
and cgi development were done by Patrick Yott.
National
Institute for Science Education Evaluation of "The Why Files" World
Wide Web Site (Data and Program Library Service)
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu/whyfiles/index.html
In February 1996, the National Institute for Science Education
(NISE) created The Why Files (http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu), a
Web site designed to explain the science behind the news. In
order to understand the characteristics of the users of The Why
Files, a brief questionnaire was incorporated into the site. This
survey was administered from March 20 through April 3, 1997 and
"cookies" were used to to track usage. Responses to the
survey were collected from 399 repeat users of The Why Files.
The files here are the data collected in these surveys.
The respondents of the survey and other data are from anywhere in
the world.
Descriptors:
World Wide Web, science communication, Internet, new technology.
National Survey
of Families and Households (NSFH) (Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Second Round data are available now. The NSFH is a comprehensive survey
of American family life which
interviewed a national probability sample of over 13,000 respondents in
1987-88. The sample was followed up in 1992-94, with face-to-face
interviews of the original respondent, the original spouse or cohabiting
partner of the respondent, and the current spouse or partner of the
respondent. In addition, telephone interviews were conducted with a
randomly selected child age 10-23 and with a parent of the respondent.
National Transit Database, 1993 (U.S. Department of
Transportation)
Twenty-six tables of data available in HTML and Lotus 1-2-3 formats.
Includes funding, taxes, expenses, employee costs, energy consumption,
safety, performance indicators, and more.
National
Transportation Atlas (U.S. Department of
Transportation)
The National Transportation Atlas (NTA) is a collection of geo-
spatial databases developed by the Department of Transportation
and other Federal agencies depicting transportation facilities,
networks, and services of national significance. They are
designed to be used with Geographic Information System (GIS)
software packages to locate transportation features and provide a
framework for transportation network analysis.
The databases located at this site are the most recent versions
available to the general public. You may also obtain a complete
set of the NTA databases on CD-ROM , current as of January 1,
1995.
Netherlands
Historical Data Archive
http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/us/navigate/dishist.htm
Netherlands Historical Data Archive
PO Box 95110
1090 HC Amsterdam
phone: (31) (0)20 4628600
info.nhda@niwi.knaw.nl
The initiative for the foundation of the NHDA was taken in 1989. In
1997 the NHDA became part of the Netherlands Institute for Scientific
Information Services (http://www.niwi.knaw.nl/),
which is an institute
of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences. The NHDA is now,
together with the Steinmetz Archive (Dutch Social Science Data
Archive) part of the Section Digital Data Archives. The NHDA
preserves and maintains datasets containing historical source
material. Part of the collection is freely accessible and can be
downloaded from the Internet. The collection includes census data,
data on colonial trade, criminal data, prosopography, itineraries etc.
The NHDA is also engaged in a training programme for historians, and
organizes specialized courses in the field of history and computing.
NEW ONE-FAMILY HOUSES SOLD, DECEMBER 1996 -
Information on new
privately owned one-family houses sold during the month and for
sale at the end of the month, together with related annual data
and figures for prior months for the United States and regions.
Tables show average and median sales prices, as
well as houses sold and for sale by stage of construction, and
quarterly figures on houses sold by type of financing - pdf format -
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/new-stat.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0015 - Feb. 24, 1997)
NEW ONE-FAMILY HOUSES SOLD, OCTOBER 1996 -
Information
on new privately owned one-family houses sold during
the month and for sale at the end of the month,
together with related annual data and figures for
prior months for the United
States and regions. The report also shows some
comparative data for earlier years - pdf format -
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/new-stat.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0014 - Feb. 10, 1997)
The New York State Data Center
The State Data Center is a cooperative program with the U.S. Bureau of
the Census for managing the
dissemination of Census, state and federal statistical information.
This site provides access to various statistical series for and about
New York's population and economy.
New
Zealand Election Study (Department of Political Science and
Public Policy University of Waikato)
"The New Zealand Election Study (NZES) is funded by the Foundation for
Research, Science, and Technology (FRST). Through the analysis of
political behaviour over five successive New Zealand elections, we are
monitoring the democratic process in New Zealand during a period of
social and economic change and, most particularly, during the
transition between electoral systems: the first past the post (FPP) or
plurality electoral system in effect in New Zealand from the origins
of the political system, and the new Mixed Member Proportional (MMP)
system which is in effect from the 1996 election. The NZES began in
its present form in 1990, continued in 1993 and 1996, and is intended
to include at least the second election under MMP, probably in 1999.
The NZES's main source of data are questionnaires which are posted to
randomly selected registered electors across the country immediately
following each election. Questions focus on voting choices, political
opinions, and social and demographic characteristics. The Project
Director is Jack Vowles, who is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of
Waikato. Data from the 1990 and 1993 NZES programme are deposited at
the Australian Social Science Data Archives at the Australian National
University, Canberra and is generally available for secondary
analysis."
Numbers
Now (San Diego California) (San Diego Association of
Governments)
A snapshot of each of the San Diego region's 19 jurisdictions:
historic, current and forecast
population, housing, and employment data, and more.
Provided by SANDAG, the San Diego Association of Governments.
Office of
Population Research (OPR) (Princeton University)
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey 08544
The Data Archive at the Office of Population Research holds a number of
specialized datasets, including: American Fertility Surveys,
the World Fertility Surveys, Demographic and Health
Surveys, Chinese Fertility Surveys, OECD Tables of
Populations and Deaths, and more. You can also connect to the
OPR Home Page.
Official Economic
Information of Mexico (Ministry of Finance of Mexico)
Includes basic economic and financial data, documents and reports on
economic policies, graphics and more.
Online
Statistics (Statistics Canada)
CANSIM (Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System) and
Trade data statistical databases are accessible here for a fee. They
contain current and historical statistics for detailed analysis.
Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development Statistics Homepage
This site provides lists and descriptions of OECD publications
(including machine-readable products) and some data online.
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics
(Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan)
The 1968 through 1993 "family files" are available here as well as the
twenty-four year "individual file." PSID now
has a
facility for creating subsets. You can select family and individual
levels by year, and cross-year variables or variable by Year and Level.
Copies of the Newsletter,
a Bibliography
for the PSID, and more are available here.
UCSD users should also see
our local holdings.
PDF
Publications (U.S. Census Bureau)
All Census Bureau publications issued since January 1, 1996. These
files are Adobe Portable Document Format PDF.
Penn
World Tables version 5.6 (National Bureau of Economic Research)
This is an experimental WWW server for the Penn World Tables;
it allows one to select one or more
countries, years, and variables from multiple selection lists, and
download the specified subset of data in ASCII format.
Also known as the "Summers and Heston data" from: "The Penn World
Table (Mark 5): An Expanded Set of International
Comparisons, 1950-1988" by Robert Summers and Alan Heston, Quarterly
Journal of Economics, May 1991.
Also see
National Bureau of Economic Research Home Page.
Penn World
Tables versions 5.5 and 5.6 (University of Toronto)
Also known as the "Summers and Heston data" from: "The Penn World
Table (Mark 5): An Expanded Set of International
Comparisons, 1950-1988" by Robert Summers and Alan Heston, Quarterly
Journal of Economics, May 1991. This site provides ways to
"...get a pretty map, get ascii input code for TSP, RATS, SAS, SHAZAM, etc."
Pennsylvania
State Data Center
Formerly known as the Economic Development Information Network, this site has
information about the state of Pennsylvania and about the nation.
Pennsylvania Statistics
by County (Penn State University)
These pages will help you create maps that display statistics. Data
from County Business Patterns and USA Counties
The Pew Research
Center for the People and the Press
Here you will find articles reporting the results of recent public
opinion surveys. Small tables with aggregate data accompany articles.
Also here is the list of the most closely followed news stories of
the past decade:
"Public Attentiveness to Major News Stories" and other information
about recent public opinion.
The Center, an independent opinion research group
sponsored by The Pew Charitable Trusts that studies
attitudes toward press, politics and public policy issues
is best known for regular national surveys that measure
public attentiveness to major news
stories, and for polling that charts trends in values and
fundamental political and social attitudes. Between 1990 and 1995 the
center was known as the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press.
POETATE
Repression Study Database (University of North Texas gopher)
This provides a dataset used in a study by Steven Poe and Neal Tate,
"Repression of human rights to personal integrity in the 1980s - a global
analysis" in American Political Science Review,
1994 Dec, v88 n4:853-872. The data are provided
in different formats: SPSS system file, SPSS export file and
Microcrunch ready-to-read format.
Population Data for
selected countries in Africa, Caribean, and Latin America, and for the U.S.
(Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania
Including: Botswana, Burkina_faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana,
Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Ondostate, Senegal,
Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Trinidad, Colombia,
Dominican Rep., Mexico, and Peru.
Population
Estimates (U.S.) (U.S. Census Bureau, The Federal State
Cooperative Program for Population Estimates)
Estimates at State, County and City levels back to 1990 and current
through about one year ago. Some of these links were not working when
we last checked; you might want to try the links at:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/estimates/popest.html which
seem to be the same data, but with working links.
Population
Studies Center - University of Michigan
Includes a catalog of
studies held by the data archive. Some data files are available
for public use.
POPULATION TRENDS: RUSSIA -
Data on the population
size and trends of Russia by region including age and sex
structure, fertility and mortality rates, contraceptive use and
abortion rates - pdf format -
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/main/newsite
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0017 - Mar. 24, 1997)
Populations
of Largest Cities in PMNs from 2000BC to 1988AD
gopher://csf.colorado.edu:70/00/wsystems/datasets/citypop/civilizations/citypops_2000BC-1988AD
These are city population sizes
for the five largest cities
in each "civilization" from 2000 BC to 1988 AD.
The definition of "civilization"
boundaries is based on David Wilkinson's
spatio-temporal bounding of political/military
networks (See Wilkinson, "Central
Civilization" Comparative Civilizations
Review 17:31-59 (Fall), 1987.
These populations were used by Christopher
Chase-Dunn and Alice Willard to compute
changes in urban growth and in the
Standardized Primacy Index (SPI) for the
several political/military networks (PMNs).
The results are available in a forthcoming
issue of Comparative Civilizations Review.
Most of the city populations were found in
Tertius Chandler's Four Thousand Years of
Urban Growth, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellon
Press, 1987.
POVERTY MEASUREMENT -
A paper on poverty measurement has been
added to the working papers presented on the Poverty Measurement web page.
The paper is entitled "Experimental Poverty Measurement for the 1990's" -
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/povmeas.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
PovertyNet:
Data on Poverty (World Bank)
http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/data/index.htm
This page provides information and data on poverty monitoring.
Specifically, it includes: *Trends in regional indicators *Income
poverty * Social indicators * Country level indicators: *Estimates
of income poverty * Estimates of inequality * Strategy 21 indicators
* Social indicators * Household surveys: *Inventory of surveys
by region, country and year * Results from the 1998 World Bank
Census of household surveys * Link to the Living Standards
Measurement Study (LSMS) web site *Link to the Household Expenditure
and Income Data for Transitional Economies (HEIDE) web site *
Participatory studies: *Inventory of participatory poverty studies
* Country data sets: *India Poverty Project Poverty Monitoring
Database: quick access to: *Information on household surveys
and participatory poverty studies *Poverty assessment summaries
*Social indicators Country level indicators: Estimates of income
poverty *Download the most recent estimates of income poverty
from the World Bank's World Development Indicators (PDF file,
146 kb). Estimates of inequality *Download the most recent estimates
of income inequality from the World Bank's World Development
Indicators (PDF file, 137 kb). *Measures of income inequality:
data by Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire on Gini coefficients,
cumulative quintile shares, explanations regarding the basis
on which the Gini coefficient was computed, and the source of
the information. Strategy 21 goals: *For the most recent estimates
of the indicators selected by the OECD, the United Nations and
the World Bank to track progress in achieving the Strategy 21
goals, see the OECD/DAC site. Social Indicators: *The World Bank
social indicators are now available from the Poverty Monitoring
Database. *UN social indicators from the UN Statistics Division.
Country data sets *The India poverty project assembled detailed
nationwide and statelevel statistics from 1950 to 1994 on expenditures,
National Accounts, prices, wages, population, and others. The
complete data are now available on line. *Read about the India
Poverty Project, its approach and findings. * Read an Introduction
to the data sets, what they contain, and ways you can access
and use them.
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PREPARING FOR THE 1997 ECONOMIC CENSUS: ADVANCE INFORMATION
YOU CAN USE -
This 27-page informational booklet includes
basic sample questionnaires, questions and answers about the
1997 census, a calendar of census-related milestones, and
points of contact for further information -
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/new-stat.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0013 - Jan. 27, 1997)
Public
Use Microdata Sample (PUMS), US Census, 1980 and 1990: Explore
(CIESIN)
The Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network.
CIESIN's Data Exploration and
Extraction Software provides interactive browsing of the U.S. Public
Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) data from 1980 and 1990. This does require
an account, but you can register for an account online and read about
the Software and the project here. NOTE: "Explore" is being
replaced by a new system called "Ulysses."
Publications and
Data (U.S. National Science Foundation)
Includes statistical reports in Word Perfect, ASCII, Lotus worksheet
and PDF formats. Reports on Science & Engineering Indicators,
Education, work force, research and development, funding,
infrastructure, and more.
QServe
(Queens College Data Services)
Data available here include the General Social Survey and the
1990 U.S. Census PUMS A (5% Sample).
Both the GSS and PUMS include
statistics, extract, codebook, and a gallery of graphs. GSS also
includes a bibliography.
QServe uses SAS to provide online generation of tables and
graphic charts as well as
online creation and downloading of data extracts.
Ann Green of Yale University prepared
a very useful overview of this and other sites and their features
Quarterly
Financial Report (QFR) (U.S. Census Bureau)
Quarterly Financial Reports.
Survey Unit: Firm
Years Covered: 1977-1990
Observations: 15,000 per quarter
Source: United States Census Bureau
The Quarterly Financial Reports (QFR) database provides income
statements and balance sheet information for public and private firms
in manufacturing, mining, wholesaling, and retailing for the period
1977 through 1990. The QFR database was first developed and used for
the Long and Ravenscraft project, described above, on leveraged
buyouts (LBOs).
QUARTERLY FINANCIAL REPORT - ADVANCE DATA ON LARGE RETAILERS'
PROFITS FOR THE THIRD QUARTER 1996 -
Up-to-date aggregate
statistics on the financial position of U.S. corporations;
also estimated statements of income and retained earnings,
balance sheets, and related financial and operating ratios
for the domestic operations of corporations in the mining
and trade areas with assets over $50 million; data
classified by industry and by asset size -
http://www.census.gov/agfs/qfr/view/qfr_rt.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0013 - Jan. 27, 1997)
RECORD LINKAGE WORKSHOP, CALL FOR PAPERS -
The Committee on Applied and
Theoretical Statistics of the National Academy of Sciences, the Washington Statistical Society,
the Bureau of the Census, the National Agricultural Statistical Service, and the George
Washington University are sponsoring a 2-day workshop on record linkage March 20-21, 1997 in
Washington, D.C. - http://www.census.gov/srd/www/reclink/recl0701.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0011 - Dec. 16, 1996)
The Record of
American Democracy, 1984-1990 (Gary King and Bradley Palmquist)
The Record Of American Democracy (ROAD) data includes election
returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic measures of the
American public at unusually low levels of geographic aggregation.
The NSF-supported ROAD project covers every state in the country from
1984 through 1990 (including some off-year elections). One collection
of data sets includes every election at and above State House, along
with party registration and other variables, in each state for the
roughly 170,000 precincts nationwide (about 60 times the number of
counties). Another collection has added to these (roughly 30-40)
political variables an additional 3,725 variables merged from the 1990
U.S. Census for 47,327 aggregate units (about 15 times the number of
counties) about the size one or more cities or towns. These units
completely tile the U.S. landmass. The collection also includes
geographic boundary files so users can easily draw maps with these
data. This ROAD Guide provides comprehensive information on the ROAD
databases in a form useful for those who may wish to use the data, and
(in separate sections) for those who may wish to extend our
collection. We also describe the technical details of the preparation
of the ROAD datasets, including exactly how every file was produced
and could be replicated, extended, or improved.
The Data are available from: ROAD
data at Harvard-MIT Data Center and will be available from
ICPSR.
Regional
Economic Forecasts (United States) (University of
Virginia)
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/socsci/projection/
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) Regional Projection database
holds demographic and income information for each state and the District of
Columbia. The data is also aggregated into 8 BEA multistate regions
and the United States as a whole. The dataset holds historical and
forecasted levels for population, personal income and employment and
earnings by industry. The historical data cover 1969 to 1993, while
the forecasts span 1998 to 2045.
The data files here contain all the data from pages 3 through 188 of the
BEA Regional Projections to 2045: Volume 1, States. This volume
was published by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic
Analysis in July, 1995.
Varibles available include:
Employment
Earnings
Gross State Product
Population Total
Population under 18
Population 18 to 64
Population 65 and over
Total Personal Earnings
TPI, Contrib. to SS
TPI, Res. Adjustment
TPI Net Earnings
TPI Div., Interest & Rent
TPI Transfer Payments
Regional
Economic Information System, 1969-1992 (Oregon State University)
HTML forms allow you to select a state and from that state select a
county, metropolitan area or BEA Economic area. For the selected area, you
can get income, employment, or profile information.
This is one of several databases available as part of the
Government Information Sharing
Project.
Regional
Economic Information System, 1969-1994 (University of Virginia)
The REIS data base provides local area economic data for states,
counties, and metropolitan areas for 1969-1994.
Statistics in the data base include: personal income by source,
per-capita personal income, earnings by two digit
SIC code, full and part time employment by industry, and regional
economic profiles.
REIS is produced by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and
Statistics Administration, Bureau of Economic Analysis,
Regional Economic Measurement Division.
Report on the
American Workforce (U.S. Department of Labor)
http://www.bls.gov/opub/rtaw/rtawhome.htm
This is the fourth Report on the American Workforce to be issued
by the Department of Labor. The three themes covered in this
edition -- workplace responses to an increasingly competitive global
environment, the central role of improved skills for all participants
in the labor market, and the balance of work and family -- will be central
concerns for policymakers, researchers, and American workers and their
families well into the 21st century.
Includes statistical tables in PDF format covering:
General conditions in the labor market,
Employment and the labor force, Wages and productivity,
Earnings, prices, and expenditures, Benefits and working conditions,
Unemployment, and International comparisons.
Research-Doctorate
Programs in the United States: Continuity and Change (National
Research Council)
Examines 3,634 programs in 41 fields at 274 institutions.
The report contains data on a large number of variables for the
individual programs and an analysis of various aspects of the 41
fields across different dimensions. Some restrictions apply to use of
these data.
The Resource Centre for Access
to Data on Europe (r-cade)
http://www-rcade.dur.ac.uk/
r-cade (resource centre for access to data on Europe)
1L Mountjoy Research Centre,
University of Durham,
Durham DH1 3SW
Email: r-cade@dur.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0) 191 374 7350
Fax: +44(0) 191 384 4971
R-cade (Resource Centre for Access to Data on Europe) provides efficient
access to key statistical data from Eurostat, UNIDO, UNESCO and the
ILO. Customers from any sector, from anywhere in the world, can use the
r-cade services. These include online access to a database via the Internet,
customised data extractions, consultancy, and special academic
concessions.
r-cade is also an official Eurostat datashop."
REVISED BUILDING PERMIT AUTHORIZATIONS, DECEMBER 199
6
and PRELIMINARY 1996 ANNUAL STATISTICS - Update on
building permits authorized by type of structure and
by region -
http://www.census.gov/const/www/c40index.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0014 - Feb. 10, 1997)
REVISED BUILDING PERMITS AUTHORIZATIONS: JANUARY 1997 -
Updated information on building permits authorized by type of structure and
by region - http://www.census.gov/const/www/c40index.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0016 - Mar. 10, 1997)
Roberto Ortiz de
Zarate's Datasets
Although this site does not contain numeric data and its contents have
not been verified by SSDC, it appears to be a legitimate and extensive
listing of political leadership worldwide which may be of interest to
users of data.
The author says he is a "licenciate of Information Sciences and having
a diploma on European Union by the University of the Basque Country."
He also set up the web site for the Department of International Relations
at the University of the Basque Country. The "datasets" at this site
are text files related to political leadership, worldwide. Lists
include:
Political Leaders (1945-1996)
(covering 179 countries and 3 international organizations; separate
files offer the names, ruling terms, deceased dates, kind of regime,
and party in power);
Last reliefs and re-elections (since January 1 1996)
(listing recent changes in governments);
Political Obituary (1990-1996);
Rulers dead in violent circumstances (1945-1996)
(classified by categories);
Current leaders longest-time in office;
Contemporary women rulers (since 1945);
First African Rulers; and
European Governments (1990-1996).
Roll of
Emigrants to the Colony of Liberia Sent by the American
Colonization Society from 1820-1843
(Data and Program Library Service
(DPLS), University of Wisconsin - Madison.)
Tom W. Shick, Principal Investigator. This site provides access
to the raw data and documentation which records all emigants to
Liberia between 1820 and 1843 who were brought to the colony by
the American Colonization Society. Variables include place of
origin, place of arrival, status of individual, level of
literacy, occupation, date of death, cause of death, and name of
the ship which carried the emigrant to Liberia.
Russia's
Demographic "Crisis" (RAND)
(Papers containing tables and graphs.)
This is an online version of a printed RAND report (see below for
details). The publication volume is an outgrowth of a June 5-6, 1995
conference at which a group of Russian demographers presented the
results of their pioneering research on Russia's demographic "crisis"
to American colleagues from RAND, the University of California at Los
Angeles, the University of Southern California, and the International
Programs Center of the U.S. Bureau of the Census. The six papers here
reflect the current state of knowledge in two broad categories: (1)
fertility and family planning; and (2) issues in the area of health
and mortality--health status, health care, and population aging.
This conference was jointly
sponsored by RAND's Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the
Center for Demography and Human Ecology of the Russian Academy of
Science's Institute of Economic Forecasting as part of a multi-year
program of collaborative research, training, and institution-building
on which they embarked in October, 1994. (Printed publication
information: DOCNO: CF-124-CRES TITLE: Russia's Demographic "Crisis".
AUTH: J. DaVanzo, G. Farnsworth PAGES: xviii, 205, DATE: 1996 COST: $
9.00 ISBN: 0833024469) Edited by Julie DaVanzo, with the assistance of
Gwendolyn Farnsworth.
San Diego / Tijuana
Border Maps and Graphs
Some recent SD/Tijuana Border research projects related to the
United States / Mexico border area of San Diego and Tijuana. Sources
include San Diego
Dialogue and EL Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF)
The French Institute of Research for Development in Cooperation (ORSTOM)
has had a GIS site located at
COLEF for several years working on the geography of the area.
San
Diego Demographics
Courtesy of San
Diego Association of
Governments (SANDAG). Includes brief descriptions of issues such as
transportation, births, etc., and a chart or graph to illustrate each.
Scientific Data,
Surveillance, Health Statistics, and Laboratory Information
(U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
http://www.cdc.gov/scientific.htm
Including:
Birth Defects Surveillance,
CDC and ATSDR Electronic Information Resources for Health Officers,
Data from Death Investigations,
Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database (HAZDAT),
HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report,
Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences Exposure Assessment Programs,
Sexually Transmitted Diseases,
The Year 2000 Issue -- Implications for Public Health
Information and Surveillance Systems, and more.
Scottish
Economic History Database (Alex Gibson)
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~ajgibson/scotdata/scot_database_home.html
Scottish Economic History Database, 1550 1780. This online database
has been produced to further the dissemination of data collected
during a project on^M
Scottish wages and prices, 1550-1780, funded
by the British Economic and Social Research Council. The broader
results of the project are presented in AJS Gibson and TC Smout,^M
Scottish
food, wages and prices, 1550 - 1780 (Cambridge University Press,
1994). This online database is made freely available, with the
condition that its use in any published work is^M
accompanied
by a reference to its URL. Data categories: *Crop Yields * Demographic
Data * Price Series * Wage Series * Weather Statistics This online
database has been created by Alex Gibson, Department of Geography,
Exeter University, UK. Updated 20/12/1994
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Scottish Economic History Database, 1550 - 1780 (Alex Gibson,
Department of Geography, Exeter University, UK
This online database has been produced to further the
dissemination of data collected during a project on Scottish
wages and prices, 1550 -1780, funded by the British Economic and
Social Research Council (Reference B00340067). The broader
results of the project are presented in AJS Gibson and TC Smout,
Scottish food, wages and prices, 1550 - 1780 (Cambridge
University Press, 1994), as well as in a number of papers
addressing particular issues.
Data available includes: Crop Yields, Demographic Data,
Price Series, Wage Series, and Weather Statistics.
Selected Financial Data
for Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs) (U.S. Commodity Futures
Trading Commission)
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is an independent US
federal agency with
the mandate to regulate commodity futures and option markets in the
United States.
(A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell in the future a
specific quantity of a commodity at a specific price.)
The Commissions's semiannual Futures Commission Merchant (FCM)
Financial Data Schedule
contains selected
financial data filed with the Commission.
The information contained in the schedule includes data for
each FCM including:
the total amount of adjusted net capital, the required amount of
adjusted net capital which must be
maintained, and the excess adjusted net capital;
the amount of customer funds required to be segregated from the FCM's
own funds, and;
the FCM's required foreign futures secured amount.
Data are available here in HTML, ASCII, and Excel spreadsheet formats.
SERVICE ANNUAL SURVEY: 1995 -
Annual estimates of the
dollar volume of receipts for selected personal, business, social,
health, and professional services at the United States level. For
selected industries, separate estimates are given for receipts of
taxable firms and revenues of firms exempt from Federal
income taxes - pdf format -
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/new-stat.html
(Announcement from Census
I-Net Bulletin No. 0017 - Mar. 24, 1997)
Social Science Data
Analysis Network (Populations Studies Center, University of
Michigan)
The Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) provides census data
and exercises for college classes.
All of the SSDAN census data sets were constructed so that they might
be accessed with StudentChip software which is available for DOS and
Macintosh computers. (Information about obtaining the software for
evaluation or for as little as $5 a copy is available here also.)
All data sets available here are tailored to particular classroom
topics. Some of these include allow comparisons over the 1950, 1960, 1970
and 1980 censuses. Others permit very detailed comparisons
across social and demographic groups from the 1990 US census.
Data File Categories included are: Marital Status, Marital
Status/Cohabiters, Married People and their Spouses, Occupation,
Labor Force Participation/Employment Status/Workhours, Children,
Earnings, Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Immigration, Education,
Population/Structure for US/Selected Areas, and Poverty
Status/Households.
Social
Statistics Briefing Room (U.S. White House)
The purpose of this service is to provide easy access to current
Federal social statistics. It provides links to information
produced by a number of Federal agencies. All of the information
included in the Social Statistics Briefing Room is maintained and
updated by the statistical units of those agencies. Topics include:
Crime, Demographics, Education, and Health.
Software
and datasets (Pierre Legendre)
http://alize.ere.umontreal.ca/~casgrain/en/labo/index.html
Available datasets (used in various papers) *Scotch Whiskies
classification data As described in: F.J. Lapointe and P. Legendre.
1994. A classification of pure malt Scotch whiskies. Applied
Statistics 43: 237257. * Oribatid mites data As described in:
Borcard, D., P. Legendre and P. Drapeau. 1992. Partialling out
the spatial component of ecological variation. Ecology 73: 10451055.
Borcard, D. and P. Legendre. 1994. Environmental control and
spatial structure in ecological communities: an example using
Oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatei). Environmental and Ecological
Statistics 1: 3753. * [4th Corner Icon]Thiahura Fish Transect
data As described in: Pierre Legendre, R. Galzin & M. HarmelinVivien.
1997. Relating behavior to habitat: solutions to the fourthcorner
problem. Ecology 78(2): 547562.
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Standard and
Poor's 500 Index
Closing values from 1926 to 1993.
These data are used in: E.Ley (1996): "On the Peculiar Distribution of
the U.S. Stock Indices;" forthcoming in The American Statistician.
Standard
and Poors 500 Index (Security APL Inc.)
graphs, no data.
STAT-USA (U.S. Department of
Commerce)
WWW fee-based version of STAT-USA The Department of Commerce,
Economics and Statistics Administration's fee-based access to the
National Trade Data Bank (NTDB),
the National Economic, Social and Environmental Data Bank (NESE-DB),
the Economic Bulletin Board, and Bureau of Economic Analysis
Economic Information.
UCSD Users Note: you should be able to connect to Stat-USA freely
while using your ucsd computer account. If you are refused access or
if Stat-USA asks for a user name and password, please let the
government documents deptartment in the Geisel Library know about
this.
STAT-USA,
Frequently Requested Statistical Releases
(U.S. Department of Commerce)
http://www.stat-usa.gov/econtest.nsf?OpenDatabase#Top50
These are, indeed, press releases -- mostly text with plain-text-layout
tables, although some data may be available as ASCII files and
spreadsheet files; (see the above link for currently available data).
Topics of releases include:
General Economics, Fiscal & Monetary, Financial Market Statistics,
Price & Productivity, Industry Statistics, Employment Statistics,
and Regional Statistics. Specific releases include:
Gross Domestic Product, Housing Starts,
Personal Income and Outlays, New Construction, New Home Sales,
Advance Retail Sales, Durable Goods Shipments & Orders,
Economic Indicators Summary, Composite Index of Leading Coincident and
Lagging Indicators, Manufacturing & Trade, Inventories and Sales,
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services,
Shipments Inventories & Orders,
The Beige Book (Summary of Commentary on Current Economic
Conditions by Federal Reserve District),
Minutes of the Previous Federal Open Market Committee Meeting,
Testimony by Federal Reserve Board Chairman,
Monetary Policy Report to the Congress,
Bank Credit, Selected Interest Rates, Money Stock Data,
Aggregate Reserves, Factors Affecting Reserves,
Consumer Credit Report, Foreign Exchange Rates,
Monthly Foreign Exchange Rates, State and Local Government Bond Rates,
Treasury Rate Quotations, Holdings of Treasury Securities in
Stripped Form, Daily Treasury Statement,
Treasury Yield Curve Rates, Consumer Price Index, Producer Price Index,
Productivity and Cost, Industrial Production & Capacity Utilization,
Business and Investment Plans, Gross Product by Industry,
The Employment Situation, Local Area Unemployment, and
Gross State Product.
StatBase
(United Kingdom)
Many datasets may be downloaded.
StatBase has been set up to provide
access to a comprehensive
set of key statistics
drawn from the whole
range of official United Kingdom government datasets.
Topics covered include population, income,
balance of payments, birth and death rates, consumer
expenditure, marriage and divorce rates, economic
activity, employment and unemployment, education and
training, road accidents, household income and
expenditure, gross domestic product, housing, livestock,
labour market, international migration, criminal offences,
national lottery, recycling of waste, atmospheric and water
pollution, drug seizures, and various other social statistics.
State Institute of Statistics (SIS), Prime Ministry
(Republic of Turkey)
T.C Basbakanlik Devlet Istatistik Enstitusu
Publications Communications and Public Relations Division
Necatibey Cad. No: 114
06100 Ankara, Turkey
voice: 90 312 418 50 27
FAX: 90 312 417 04 32
The State Institute of Statistics (SIS) is a technical and scientific
institute which produces publications to fulfill Turkey's information
needs on social, economic, and cultural subjects. The main function
of SIS is to comprehensively determine information needs, collect and
compile data, and finally, to present information to its users
according to the highest international standards. Data are available
on diskette and magnetic tape. Some data are available on the Web
site.
State
of the Cities Data Systems
http://io.aspensys.com/socds/socds_home.htm
State of the Cities Data Systems The SOCDS provides data for
individual Metropolitan Areas, Central Cities, and Suburbs.
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The State of
the Nation's Cities: A Comprehensive Database on American Cities
and Suburbs (Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers
University)
As part of a contribution to the United Nations' Habitat II conference
in Istanbul in June 1996, the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) contracted with the Center for
Urban Policy Research to assemble a
comprehensive database on 77 American cities and suburbs. As of January
19, 1998 Version 2.2a of the database brings
together over 3,000 variables from a wide variety of sources, allowing
easy comparability of indicators on
employment and economic development, demographic measures, housing and
land use, income and poverty, fiscal
conditions, and a host of other health, social, and environmental
indicators.
Data files are available for download in several formats (Tab-delimited
ASCII, SPSS portable file, Excel, and SAS).
This is a very rich dataset. Examples of variables:
AFDC
AIDS
Birth rates
Building permits by type
Dissimilarity index: White/Black
Hispanic population
Homeless population
Household expenditures by type
Median family income
Migration 1965-70
Persons in poverty
Pollution released by manufacturing firms
Presidential vote total
Roadway congestion index
Unemployment rate
Urban Stress Index
Workers driving to work alone
Also see our
local copy of a
complete list of variables (160K).
The
Statistical Assessment Service
The Statistical Assessment Service looks at the way that statistical
and quantitative information and
research are presented by the media, and works with journalists to
help them convey this material more
accurately and effectively.
The Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) is a nonpartisan,
non-profit research organization in
Washington, D.C. STATS is devoted to the accurate use of statistical
and quantitative information in
public policy debate.
STATS serves as a resource for journalists by providing timely and
well-researched analysis of current
statistical disputes. Since STATS seeks to weed out bad data before
it enters the media stream, we
periodically fax out same-day statistical methodological analyses of
breaking news stories.
Statistical Reference
Datasets
(The National Institute of Standards and Technology)
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/strd/
The Statistical Reference Dataset pages are intended to complement the
testing of statistical software by providing datasets and
corresponding "certified values" of statistical parameters which are
commonly estimated by software packages. This site provides datasets
which you may download and, using the particular statistical model
provided, analyze the data with your software and compare your results
with the "certified values." Several datasets are available for each
of several statistical methods. The datasets are roughly graded
according to difficulty. Information for each dataset includes:
dataset information, statistical model, methodology, graphical display
of the data (where appropriate), certified results, and the data file.
The data files are in ASCII format. In response to industrial
concerns about the numerical accuracy of computations from statistical
software, the Statistical Engineering and Mathematical and
Computational Sciences Divisions of NIST's (The National Institute of
Standards and Technology) Information Technology Laboratory are
providing datasets with certified values for a variety of statistical
methods. Currently datasets and certified values are provided for
assessing the accuracy of software for univariate statistics, linear
regression, nonlinear regression, and analysis of variance. The
collection includes both generated and "real-world" data of varying
levels of difficulty. Generated datasets are designed to challenge
specific computations. These include the classic Wampler datasets for
testing linear regression algorithms and the Simon & Lesage datasets
for testing analysis of variance algorithms. Real-world data include
challenging datasets such as the Longley data for linear regression,
and more benign datasets such as the Daniel & Wood data for nonlinear
regression. Certified values are "best-available" solutions. The
certification procedure is described in the web pages for each
statistical method.
Statistical Tables on Education (UNESCO)
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
provides tables of data for countries of the world. Topics of tables
include: population, area, density, illiteracy, teaching staff,
enrollment levels, public expenditures on education, teacher training,
and more.
Statistical
Yearbook of Norway 1996 ()Statistics Norway)
All the tables and figures are available on Internet. The tables are
also avilable in spreadsheet-formate (Excel), for downloading and
further analysis on your own computer. The Statistical Yearbook of
Norway 1996 contains summary information on developments in most
areas of Norwegian society in recent years. The yearbook also
contains main figures from other countries selected from international
statistics. With the help of 546 tables and 57 figures, Statistics
Norway presents a cross-section of these developments in a form most
people can use. Topics include: Environment; Population; Health and
social conditions; Education; Personal economy and housing conditions;
Labour market; Recreational, cultural and sporting activities; Prices
and indices; National economy and external trade; Industrial
activities; Financial markets; Public sector; Svalbard; and
International tables.
Statistics Finland
Statistics Finland is the main centre for statistical information in
Finland, producing twothirds of all
government statistics in the country. All in all there are some 30
organizations in Finland that produce
official statistics. This site includes Frequently Asked
Statistics for economics, labour, population, and more; information
about publications and electronic products; and more.
Statistics Netherlands
Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek
Afdeling Verkoop
Kamer J116
Postbus 4481
6401 CZ Heerlen
The Netherlands
Tel.: +31 (45) 5 70 79 70
Fax: +31 (45) 5 70 62 68
E-mail: verkoop@cbs.nl
Statistics Netherlands is the Central Bureau of Statistics of the
Netherlands. Statistics Netherlands collects, processes and
analyses data. Then it publishes the statistical results. The
data come from people or organisations (companies, institutes).
With the present statistical methods and techniques, often only a
limited group (sample) needs to supply information to Statistics
Netherlands. Some data are available online; see The year in
figures page.
Statistics
Norway
Statistics Norway was established in 1876 and has since been Norway's
central institution for producing official statistics, playing and
important role in Norwegian society. Through collection, processing
and dissemination of statistics and analyses, Statistics Norway
contributes to ensure that public planning and social management are
based on the best possible factual basis, strengthen and develop
democracy, and improve the functioning of business.
The Web-server of Statistics Norway presents press releases and
extracts from Ukens statistikk (The Weekly Bulletin
of Statistics) and
other publications. These articles will often contain graphs and/or
tables. Articles form Ukens statistikk are released every Thursday
morning, press releases are published daily. These presentations are
put in chronological order under News. There is also a list
of statistics by subjects and a link to the Statistical Yearbook of
Norway.
Statistics UCLA, Data
Archive (University of California, Los Angeles)
This site includes some data as well as pointers to Data Archives and
other collections of data. Data included here include data from
textbooks and data from case
studies. Case studies include:
Stock Prices, Breast Cancer Research, Effect of Fitness Program,
Water Use in Los Angeles, Oral Hygiene in the ICS-II project,
Effect of Exercise on Heart Disease,
National Assessment of Educational Progress, The London Underground,
Suicides of Women and Men, Temperature in San Francisco,
Lead Intake, Voting for Johnson, Salaries of Yale Men,
K-Mart Cookie Sales, Skeleton Differences between Tribes,
Advertising for Detergents, Did Mendel Fudge his Data,
Rainfall in the United Kingdom, Jury selection in Alameda County,
Racial Bias in Jury Selection: Swain vs Alabama,
Gender Bias in Jury Selection: The Case of Dr. Spock,
The ELISA test for the AIDS Virus,
School Careers in the Netherlands in 1959,
The Northridge Earthquake of January 1994, and more.
StatLib---Datasets
Archive (Carnegie Mellon University)
StatLib
is a system for distributing statistical software,
datasets, and information. Datasets here are contributed for
instructional use and include a wide variety of biological,
atmospheric, social and political data collected by surveys and with
other methods. Includes cross-sectional data and time series data.
Examples of data: data from a number of statistics
textbooks; radiation data from a balloon; the salaries of North
American Major League Baseball players; The Boston house-price data of
Harrison, D. and Rubinfeld, D.L.; Data on mpg, cylinders,
displacement, etc. (8 variables) for 406 different cars; data on tree
growth; annual homicides in Detroit, 1961-73; Time series of monthly
flows for the Fraser River at Hope, B.C; data taken from the Places
Rated Almanac; etc.
StatsCan
Online (Statistics Canada)
A subscription service that provides access to a growing
number of Statistics Canada databases. Currently
CANSIM, The Canadian International Merchandise
Trade Database, InfoHort
(the horticulture statistics database)and The Daily, which
supplies highlights and summary trend analysis for newly
released statistics each working day are include.
Studies
in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics (The MIT Press)
The MIT Press and the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics
began publishing this electronic journal in 1996.
The journal is a peer-reviewed, copyrighted, fee-based,
quarterly periodical hosted entirely on the Internet. SNDE publishes
original theoretical and empirical manuscripts, replication studies,
computer algorithms, and data sets.
Subject Listing for Statistics and Economic Data
http://www.bized.ac.uk/roads/htdocs/subject-listing/Default/mathstat.html
Part of the Biz/ed
Internet Catalogue. Provides short descriptions and links to
dozens of sources of data including many national statistical offices.
Included:
Asia Information Project,
Asian Demographics,
Bank of Japan World Wide Web Site,
Bank of Montreal; Economic Research and Analysis,
Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek,
Central Statistical Service (South Africa),
Centre for Economic Forecasting, London Business School,
Centre for Economic Learning and Social Evolution (ELSE),
Data Archive (UK),
econometric-research mailing list,
Economic Policy Institute (US),
ECU Yield Curve Weekly Report,
ESRC Econometric Study Group,
ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change,
EUROSTAT,
FAOSTAT Statistics Database,
Game Theory and Experimental Economics,
GLOCOM Economic Digest,
HyperStat Online by David M. Lane,
International Data Base,
Journal of Empirical Finance,
Kenya Fact Book,
MBendi Information for Africa,
Ministry of Economy, Public Works and Services, Argentina,
Multilevel Models Project,
National Institute of Economic and Social Research,
New Zealand Treasury,
Office for National Statistics (UK),
Oxford Economic Forecasting Ltd (UK), and
World Tourism Organization.
Survey of Consumer Finances
(U.S. Federal Reserve Board)
http://www.bog.frb.fed.us/pubs/oss/oss2/scfindex.html
The Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) is a triennial survey
of the
balance sheet, pension, income, and other demographic characteristics
of U.S. families. The survey also gathers information on use of
financial institutions. The links to the surveys from 1983 to 1995
provide summary results of
the surveys, codebooks and related documentation, and full public data
sets. Also included here are the data and related information from
the 1962 Survey of Financial Characteristics of Consumers and the 1963
Survey of Changes in Family Finances. These surveys are the most
direct precursors of the Survey of Consumer Finances. Similar
information on the 1983 and 1989 Surveys of Pension Providers is
provided as well.