Econ Data

U.S. Data
Data Source	Comments
Bureau of the Census	This site has some good information on U.S. income distribution across different groups and across time. Lots of other neat information on the U.S. population, state governments, etc.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (Occupational Outlook Handbook)	Lot's of current U.S. data. Use the Occupational Outlook Handbook to find out which occupations are expected to be hot in the future!
Economagic	Lot's of neat data here. This is a commercial site lots of good U.S. time series data. The data is not available in spreadsheet form unless you subscribe ($200 per year) but you can freely copy and paste it as a text file..
Economic Report of the President: 2004	Great site! Good source of U.S. data since WW II. Adobe Acrobat files, as well as spreadsheet files, are available.
Edgar Online (Also try the SEC EDGAR Database)	View income statements, balance sheets, prospectuses, stock price charts, etc., for individual U.S. companies that file with the SEC
Federal Reserve Economic Data Base (FRED, from the St. Louis Fed)	Great site! One of my favorite sources of U.S. Economic data from '49 to the present
Report on the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds	Each year the Social Security Trust issues a report full of interesting numbers and tables. Find out how bad of a condition MediCare and Social Security really are (or aren't) in as well as proposals for reform
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (Survey of Current Business)	Great site! Gateway to a lot of U.S. and International data including the Survey of Current Business; a source for very current & detailed data, especially for the U.S. economy
U.S. Government Budget (1996 - 2003 data)	Great site! From the Office of Management and Budget. Information on recent U.S. government budget. Includes summary tables of income sources, spending sources, the debt and deficit, etc.
University of Maryland Economic Data	Good links to sites offering U.S., international, current, and historical international data
University of Michigan Survey of Consumers	Where do many of the Surveys of Consumer Confidence, Inflation Expectations, etc. come from? Yep, it's the University of Michigan Consumer Survey! This site's server tends to be down a lot so you may have to try back a few times.

International Data
Data Source	Comments
CIA World Publications (World Factbook) (Handbook of Intl Econ Stats)	Great site! The World Factbook and Handbook of International Economic Statistics are good sources of international data Also includes social, political, and demographic data
International Monetary Fund	Searchable Database of IMF publications. There are some great publications here! Look for the World Economic Outlook Databases
OECD Economic Stats (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development)	OECD statistics and links to the OECD homepage
Penn World Tables (from Univ. of Pennsylvania)	Great site! Pretty awesome, single source of international data from 1950 to 2000. The format is a bit awkward. Still, it's a great site.
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (Survey of Current Business)	Great site! Gateway to a lot of U.S. and International data including the Survey of Current Business; a source for very current & detailed data
U.S. State Dept: Country Reports	Country by country economic data from 1992 to the present.
University of Maryland Economic Data	Good links to sites offering U.S., international, current, and historical international data
World Bank	Excellent source of economic data for countries of the world, and info on the World Bank.

Historical Data
Data Source	Comments
Natl. Bureau of Economic Research Macrohistory Database	Data on the U.S. economy prior to the Great Depression. Also some coverage of the United Kingdom, France and Germany. The organization is a bit hard to follow at times.
U.S. Historical Census Data Browser (from the Univ. of Virginia)	Census from 1790 to 1960. You can choose the series you wish to examine and view it at either the state or county level. You can calculate simple ratios (ex. Farms>1000 acres/all farms). Finally, you can generate graphs of your data.
Meet the Great Depression	Lovely macro data on the Great Depression in the U.S. It includes data relevant to the debates over the causes of the great depression.

Summary Series (all in Adobe Acrobat)
Series	Comments
Meet U.S. GDP	Check out this two page "snap-shot" of the U.S. economy
Meet U.S. Economic Performance	How well has the U.S. economy been performing? When were the bad times and the happy times?
Meet The Current Employment Situation	in 2 1/2 years the U.S. economy shed 3.2 million jobs, yet the number "unemployed" only rose by 1.7 million. What's up with that?
Meet The Current U.S. Macro Situation	How do recent economic events look when one plugs them into a AD-AS graph? Is the economy behaving as predicted? Coming in (about) March of 2004!
Meet the U.S. Government	What do the different layers (Fed, State, local) of U.S. government do? How do they get their revenue? How does the size of America's government compare to the rest of the world. Is government in the U.S. a "leviathan"? How much has it grown?
Meet U.S. Income Distribution	Where does income in the U.S. come from (wages, corporate profits, etc)? How evenly distributed is it? How does U.S. income distribution compare to the rest of the world?
Meet Investment and the Twin Deficits	This summary set is great for examining the long-run relationships in the U.S. economy. What is happening to U.S. investment? How are the budget deficits and trade deficits related?
Meet the U.S. Tax System(s)	How does the U.S. tax system work? How progressive is our tax system? Is the answer simple (Unfortunately, no)?
Meet the U.S. Federal Debt	Originally a poster set, these four pages give a nice visual overview of the U.S. federal deficit. The data is about 4 years old. Someday I'll update it.
Meet the Great Depression	Lovely macro data on the Great Depression in the U.S. It includes data relevant to the debates over the causes of the great depression.