ECON 495S/496S: Honors Seminars I & II: Data Sources

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. When you create an account, identify yourself as an affiliate of Duke University to gain free access.

Portal for US federal and international data in several areas, including census, the US Current Population Survey, health, and education. Includes extraction and aggregation tools to gather data from public use microdata samples.

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) provides these public use datasets on a variety of economic, policy, and social science topics, including labor and compensation, trade, health, vital statistics, education, and more. Data are typically provided in standard statistical formats such as STATA, SAS, and as CSV files.

Portal to data sources from the American Economic Association (AEA).

Data collections purchased by the library's CDVS for use by the Duke community.

Formerly, Quandl. A variety of financial information, much of it available without a paid subscription.

An index to US federal government agency datasets and data portals. Usually leads to an agency webpage, but occasionally you can download data directly from Data.gov.

Includes FRED, with 40,000 economic time series; ALFRED,with archival (unrevised) time series; FRASER, with historical US federal govt. economic publications; and several other components. From the St. Louis Fed.

The agency that collects and disseminates a lot of data relating to employment, wages, and prices.

An agency that collects and disseminates a lot of macroeconomic data relating to national accounts (GDP, etc.), personal income, and trade.

Alphabetical index to the Census Bureau's web pages.

Find a wide range of economic, environment, health, political, and social indicators in 226 countries.

From the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Recommend going to a source (e.g., International Financial Statistics) and choosing the "Query" option.

Besides all the books and reports found at the iLibrary site, there are a wealth of data to download. Usually, one of the countries involved needs to be an OECD member.

Long time series of national accounts data, normalized to real values.

Provides current and recent historical financial data on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, futures, and foreign exchange for both international and domestic markets.

The DataStream (aka DataStream Advance or DS Advance) client software from Refinitiv (fka Thomson Reuters) has been retired by the provider. Duke users may now access DataStream data via WRDS, or via the Refinitiv Workspace web site and application, available in mid-late February 2022.