Data and Statistics for Business and Economics

U.S. Census Bureau. "...ongoing survey that provides vital information on a yearly basis about our nation and its people."

U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and data sets for decennial census and American Community Surveys.

St. Louis Fed. "ALFRED® allows you to retrieve vintage versions of economic data that were available on specific dates in history... Vintage or real time economic data allows academics to reproduce others' research, build more accurate forecasting models, and analyze economic policy decisions using the data available at the time."

"Issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President's budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year."

GDP, National Accounts, Industry Data, International Trade and Investment Data, Regional and State Estimates.

Consumer Price Index, Current Population Survey, Employment Cost Trends, Local Area Unemployment and Producer Price Index.

By mode, region, and subject.

Building Permits, County Business Patterns, International Trade Data, Nonemployer Statistics, Occupation by Race and Sex, USA Counties, more.

University of Virginia Library. "...provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets (subsets only available for 1988-2000)."

"...monthly data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services. "

"...annual series that provides subnational economic data by industry. The series is useful for studying the economic activity of small areas; analyzing economic changes over time; and as a benchmark for statistical series, surveys, and databases between economic censuses. Businesses use the data for analyzing market potential, measuring the effectiveness of sales and advertising programs, setting sales quotas, and developing budgets. Government agencies use the data for administration and planning."

U.S. Census Bureau. "...data analysis and extraction tool to customize federal, state, and local data to suit your requirements... graphs and maps without any additional software."

U.S. Census Bureau. "...profiles American business every 5 years, from the national to the local level." Now requires use of the American FactFinder interface. Recommended: Data selection for Business and Industry topics.

U.S. Census Bureau. New residential sales, construction, retail trades, wholesale trade, more.

Annual report written by the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers.

"Independent statistics and analysis."

Statistical, analytical, and historical data on banks and the banking industry.

"...triennial cross-sectional survey of U.S. families."

U.S. Census Bureau. Employment, payroll, finance, more.

Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research. Historical statistics complementing FRED

Economic time series database. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

NORC. "...contains a standard ‘core’ of demographic and attitudinal questions, plus topics of special interest. Many of the core questions have been unchanged since 1972 to facilitate time trend studies as well as replication of earlier findings."

University of Michigan. "...longitudinal panel study that surveys a representative sample of approximately 20,000 Americans over the age of 50 every two years. Supported by the National Institute on Aging (NIA U01AG009740) and the Social Security Administration..."

Historical Budgets of the United States, 1940-

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. "...data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields."

Business data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Easy access to Census Bureau programs that provide economic data for a user-selected industry. Includes option for "visualization" of key data.

"STATS America is a service of the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. We obtain thousands of data items from hundreds of data sets from dozens of federal and state sources, along with some commercial or private source data. While STATS America adds value to these data through easy access and functionality, we acknowledge the direct agency source of the data on every table, profile or map."

International Trade Administration. "Trade Policy & Analysis (TP&A) publishes a variety of data series and reports for both public and government use." Includes state and metropolitan exports.