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Economic Data (see also: Data on Poverty)

Updated: 19 November 2014

This section is a collection of databases, datasets, online data and data dashboards that provide quantitative information on the economic conditions of countries worldwide. We have links to various collections of GDP data, industrial production data, development aid data, productivity data, banking data, economic policy data, economic research data, economic survey data and others. Please also see the sections on "Indexes & Rankings" as well as on "Poverty".

Newly listed data sites:

World Ultra Wealth Report (Added 19 November 2014)

Development aid data (Added 1 October 2014)

International aid transparency register (Added 1 October 2014)

 

World Ultra Wealth Report (Wealth-X, UBS)

The report gives you unparalleled insight into the world’s ultra wealthy population, defined as those with net assets of US$30 million and above: by region, country, wealth tiers, gender and between old and new money.

Report (requires registration)

Global Economic Outlook (GEO) Database (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Development Policy and Analysis Division)

The Global Economic Outlook (GEO) database contains selected macroeconomic indicators from the analysis and projections reported in the World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP). The WESP is released in January and an update is released in June each year.

World Economic Situation and Prospects (WESP) Report

World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) (United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Development Policy and Analysis Division)

The survey examines the many challenges that must be addressed to achieve sustainable development. The survey zooms in on three critical challenges – food security, energy transformation and sustainable cities. New strategies are needed to address the impacts of rapid urbanization around the world, including increasing demands for energy, water, sanitation, public services, education and health.

World Economic and Social Survey (WESS) Report

Industrial Statistics Database (INDSTAT 4 - 2014 Edition) (United Nations Industrial Development Organization - UNIDO)

The database contains seven principle indicators of industrial statistics: number of establishments, number of employees, wages and salaries, output, value added, gross fixed capital formation, and number of female employees. The INDSTAT4 database contains time series data from 1990 onwards. Data are available for country, year and ISIC at the 3- and 4-digit levels of ISIC (Revision 3), which comprises 151 manufacturing sectors and sub-sectors.

Aid Data (Development Gateway / College of William and Mary / Brigham Young University, USA)

AidData is a research and innovation lab that seeks to improve development outcomes by making development finance data more accessible and actionable.

Data Dashboard (interactive)
GIS Maps (interactive)
Static Datasets

IATI Aid Registry (International Aid Transparence Initiative, International)

The Registry is an index of data files published in compliance with the standards of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). It does not contain the actual data, only links to the published data, and metadata describing the contents of these files. The Registry site is hosted by the IATI secretariat. Its content is maintained by the publishers of IATI data.

Datasets
Secretariat
Steering Commitee

World Productivity Database (United Nations Industrial Development Organization - UNIDO)

This website lets you download indicators of productivity performance. Although it is primarily a website devoted to measures of total factor productivity (TFP), partial productivity measures are also available or can be derived from the existing data. You can download levels and growth rates, as well as ten-year forecasts of TFP for as many as 112 countries, from 1960 to 2000.

 

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Public Use Data Archive (National Bureau of Economic Research - NBER)

Links to public use data files used for economic research at NBER. Mostly referring to the U.S. economy.

Macro Data

 

Official Business Cycle Dates

NBER

"The American Business Cycle: Continuity and Change" Historic Data Tables

Gordon

Experimental Coincident, Leading and Recession Indexes

Stock, Watson

Index of African Governance

Rotberg, Gisselquist

Penn-World Tables

Feenstra, Inklaar, Timmer

Educational Attainment Data, 1960-1985 (for 120 countries)

Barro, Lee

Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) data

Comin, Hobijn

Economic Policy Uncertainty

Baker, Bloom, Davis

A History of U.S. Foreign-Exchange-Market Interventions

Bordo, Humpage, Schwartz

Occupational Wages around the World

Freeman, Oostendorp

Macro History Database

NBER

Savings, Investment, and Gold in 13 countries (1850-1945)

Jones, Obstfeld

Social Security Pension Reform in Europe

Feldstein, Siebert

Historical Cross-Country Technological Adoption: Dataset

Comin, Hobijn

Facts and Fantasies about Commodity Futures

Gorton, Rouwenhorst

US Industrial Production Index 1790 - 1915

Davis

   

Industry, Productivity and Digitization Data

 

Job Creation and Destruction Data

Haltiwanger et al

Management Practices Data

Bloom, Van Reenen

Manufacturing Industry Productivity Database

Becker, Gray, Marvakov

Internet and Economy Digitization Report

Shiller

Economics of Digitization Data Sources

Reimers

Public Sector Collective Bargaining Law Data

Valletta, Freeman

Form 990 data on tax exempt organizations

IRS

   

International Trade Data

 

Price Quantity Indexes and Values for U.S. Exports and Imports, 1879-1923

Lipsey

SITC Rev 2 and NAICS (1997)

Feenstra,Lipsey

U.S. Trade by 1972-SIC category, 1958-1994

Feenstra

U.S. Trade by 1987-SIC, 1972-2005; NAICS 1989-2005; HS 1989-2008
Concordance between HS and SIC/NAICS; Concordance of HS codes over time

Schott
Pierce and Schott

U.S. Imports by TSUSA, HS, SITC, 1972-2001

Feenstra

U.S. Imports by SAS and Stata, 1972-2001

Feenstra

U.S. Exports by TSUSA, HS, SITC, 1972-2001

Feenstra

U.S. Exports by SAS and Stata, 1972-2001

Feenstra

U.S. Tariffs, 1989-2001

Romalis

U.S. Antidumping Database and Links

Blonigen

World Trade Data ( choose World Import and Export Data )

Feenstra, Lipsey

   

Individual Data

 

Angrist Archive

Joshua Angrist

Boston Youth Labor (Market) Survey, 1980, 1989

Freeman, Katz

Collaborative Perinatal (CPP)

NINCDS

Consumer Expenditure Survey Extracts

Harris, Sabelhaus (CBO)

Current Population Survey

BLS

Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS)

NHTSA

Gould Sample

Costa

National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)

NCHS

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)

NCHS

National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NHAMCS)

NCHS

Reading National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) Data with SAS, SPSS, or Stata

Roth

Survey of Economic Expectations

Dominitz, Manski

Survey of Income and Program Participation

Census

Survey of Program Dynamics

Census

Thorndike-Hagen

Thorndike, Hagen

Union Army Data Set

Fogel

Worker Representation survey

Freeman, Rogers

   

Healthcare Data: Hospitals, Providers, Drugs

 

CMS' Compare Data -- CMS' Physician Compare Data

CMS

CMS' Impact File Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS)

CMS

CMS' Prospective Payment System (PPS)

CMS

Reading CMS'  Healthcare Cost Report Information System (HCRIS) datasets using SAS

CMS

CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) Files

CMS

CMS National Provider Identifier (NPI) to Unique Physician Identification Number (UPIN) Crosswalk

CMS

CMS National Provider Identifier (NPI) to State License Crosswalk

CMS

CMS Provider of Service (POS) files

CMS

CMS Medicare Provider Charge Data

CMS

CMS ICD-9-CM to and from ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS Crosswalk or General Equivalence Mappings

CMS

CMS CBSA, MSA, and State Wage Index Files

CMS

CMS SSA to FIPS CBSA and MSA County Crosswalks

CMS

CMS SSA to FIPS State and County Crosswalks

CMS

Drugs@FDA -- FDA Approved Drug Products Data

FDA

FDA Orange Book Data -- Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations

FDA

FDA Premarket Notification 510(k) Database

FDA

FDA Product Classification Database

FDA

National Drug Code (NDC) Data

FDA

   

Demographic and Vital Statistics

 

Vital Statistics Books ( Historical )

NCHS

Vital Statistics Births

NCHS

Interactive index to Vital Statistics Births 1931-1968

NCHS

Reading SEER U.S. County Population Data with SAS, SPSS, or Stata 1969-on

Roth

Vital Statistics Births and Infant Mortality 1920-1945

Cutler, Norberg, Norton

Vital Statistics Births 1940-1968

Finkelstein, Heidi Williams

Vital Statistics Mortality Data

NCHS

Vital Statistics Deaths - Historical 1900 - 1936

Grant Miller

Vital Statistics Marriage and Divorce

NCHS

US Decennial Population by County and State 1900-1990

Roth

US Intercensal Population by County and State 1970-2012

Roth, James Wang

US Intercensal Population by State, Age and Sex 1970-1999

Census

Work-Family Policies and Other Data

Waldfogel, Han, Ruhm

   

Patents and Scientific Papers Data

 

U.S. Patents

Hall, Jaffe, Tratjenberg

NBER-Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Scientific Papers Database

Adams, Clemmons

Nobel Laureate Data

Jones, Weinberg

   

Other Data

 

Data Appendixes from NBER Working Papers and Books

NBER

ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) Distance Database

Census

County Distance Database

Census

City Distance Database - Place Distance Database

Census

Census Tract Distance Database

Census

School District Databook (SDDB)

NCES

Tax Model File Documentation

Feenberg

Segregation Data

Cutler, Glaeser, Vigdor

State Constitutions Project

Wallis

NIH CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects)

Lichtenberg

Business Travel Index

Borenstein

Reading PUMS Micro-Data for 1990 and 2000 with SAS, SPSS, or Stata

Roth

Reading 1970 Census Summary File 1A with SAS, SPSS, or Stata

Roth

Reading large datasets into Access or Excel

Roth

Matched set of Indonesian BPS sub-district codes for 1976-2002 for use with corresponding BPS data

Olken

Resume audit experiment computer program

Lahey

Older data formerly at anonymous FTP

NBER

Links to child health datasets

Norberg

 

Center for Economic Studies (CES) (United States Census Bureau)

The Center for Economic Studies (CES) partners with stakeholders within and outside the Census Bureau to improve measures of the economy and people of the United States through research and the development of innovative public-use data products.

Business Dynamics statistics
Tabulations on establishments, firms, and employment with unique information on firm age and firm size

OnTheMap
Online mapping and reporting application showing where the U.S. population and workforce live and work

 

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The Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - EBRD / The World Bank)

The Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) examines the quality of the business environment as determined by a wide range of interactions between firms and the state in transition countries.

The Management, Organization and Innovation (MOI) Survey (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - EBRD)

The Management, Organization and Innovation (MOI) Survey measures and compares management practices in almost 1,800 manufacturing establishments in 10 transition countries.

Banking Environment and Performance Survey (BEPS) (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - EBRD)

The Banking Environment and Performance Survey (BEPS) contains data on the credit and deposit activities, risk management techniques and perceptions of the regulatory environment of 220 banks in EBRD's region of operation.

 
 
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