The George Washington University
Dept. of Economics

Resources

Goverment Links
On-line Journals and Publications
Associations
On-Line Data Sets
Other Links
Economics Research Institutes and Centers

Government links

Executive Branch:

Legislative Branch:

Independent Agencies:

  • Central Intelligence Agency
    • The World Factbook, contains economic, demographic, political and social profiles for all countries
  • Federal Reserve System
    • Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
    • Fed In Print: an Index to Federal Reserve Economic Research (San Fransisco)
    • The "Beige Book," summarizes economic current conditions across Federal Reserve Districts.

General Resources:

  • FEDSTATS, "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"
  • Stat-USA, a one-stop site for federally-collected statistics maintained by the Economics and Statistics Administration of the Department of Commerce.

On-line Journals and Publications

Associations

On-line Data Sets

  • The Commercial Bank and Bank Holding Company Database at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago "contains data for all banks regulated by the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Comptroller of the Currency. All financial data are on an individual bank basis."
  • County Business Patterns, "an annual series" prepared by the Census Bureau "providing an economic profile of counties, states, and the United States. Data include employment, payroll, and number of establishments by industry."
  • Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS). "The Demographic and Health Surveys Program has been collaborating with developing country institutions since 1984 in conducting national surveys on fertility, family planning, maternal and child health and household living conditions."
  • DataFerrett (Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool), allows direct and convenient extraction of data from selected Current Population Survey and Survey of Income and Program Participation files.
  • General Social Surveys (GSS). " The General Social Surveys are representative sample surveys of the adult American population which have been conducted in almost every year since 1972. Questions on a very wide range of issues have been included, and the number of questions asked each year ranges from 153 in 1972 to over 750 in 1991. About one third of the questions make up the core, and are asked every year or most years. These are particularly useful for tracking changes in public opinion." The on-line site is maintained by Queens College.
  • Health and Retirement Study/Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (HRS/AHEAD). "The Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD) are nationally representative longitudinal data collections that examine retirement and the aging of society."
  • The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), "is a membership-based [GW is a member], not-for-profit organization
  • serving member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. ICPSR provides: (a) access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data, (b) training facilities for the study of quantitative social analysis techniques, and (c) resources for social scientists using advanced computer technologies."
  • National Center for Health Statistics Public-Use Data Files, several downloadable public-use files including data from the National Vital Statistics System, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), and the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG).
  • The National Bureau of Economic Research Data Archive. The NBER archive includes access to the Penn-World Tables, the NBER Macro History Database, and uniform CPS extracts.
  • Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). "The PSID is a longitudinal survey of a representative sample of US individuals and the families in which they reside. It has been ongoing since 1968. The data are collected annually, and the data files contain the full span of information collected over the course of the study. PSID data can be used for cross-sectional, longitudinal, and intergenerational analysis and for studying both individuals and families."
  • The World Bank Group -Data and Statistics Country by country information complied by The World Bank. Links to development, gender, education, and specialized data sources available at this site.

Other links

  • Population Reference Bureau (PRB), a "one-stop source for U.S. population data" administered by the Population Reference Bureau and the Social Science Data Analysis Network.
  • The Better Business Bureau and its office for Metropolitan Washington
  • The Dismal Scientist "provides comprehensive and timely economic data and analysis, at the metro, state, and national level by recognized economists."
  • Gelman Libary's list of on-line economic resources.
  • Inomics, an internet site "especially tailored to the needs of economists. At this site you can find job openings for economists, conference announcements as well as a search engine for economic information."
  • National Bureau of Economic Research
  • The National Council for Science and the Environment archive of Congressional Research Service Reports. The CRS reports are prepared for members of Congress and are not directly released to the public; the NCSE has obtained copies of the reports and made them available on-line.
  • Nobel Prize in Economic Science Winners, a listing of all of the Nobel prize winners since 1969 with links to descriptions of their research, part of the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.
  • Dr. T's Econ links "provides a comprehensive, yet concise, index of useful links for Economists and anyone interested in Economics, Business and Finance."
  • WebEc (World Wide Web Resources in Economics, U.S. mirror site), "WebEc is an effort to categorize free information in economics on the WWW"
  • The International Economics Study Center

Economics Research Institutes and Centers