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Economic Statistics Internet Guide

General Guides | Statistics by Region - Australia, Great Britain, United States, China,International| Statistics by Category - Labor Statistics, Trade Statistics, Transport Statistics, Historical Statistics |

General Guides

Econ Data and Links
Economic and trade statistics, trong emphasis on U.S. material. Subjects covered include: population, labour force, earnings, income, expenditure, money, interest rates, economic indicators, federal finance and international transactions.
url: http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~johnsh/econ/econ_EDL.htm

Statistical Resources on the Web
Extensive guide from the University of Michigan. Subjects of interest - agriculture, business & industry, foreign trade, consumers, cost of living, labour, economics, energy, transportation, finance and currencies, foreign economics.
url: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html

The Dismal Scientist
This site contains a wide variety of US and international business and economic data, plus analysis.
url: http://www.dismal.com/default.asp?feature=0

FRED - Federal Reserve Economic Data
Produced by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRED provides historical U.S. economic and financial data, including daily U.S. interest rates, monetary and business indicators, exchange rates, balance of payments and regional economic data for Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee.
url: http://www.stls.frb.org/fred/

Data Sources
Comprehensive SUNY-Oswego guide to the economic and business statistical souces on the www.
url: http://www.oswego.edu/~economic/data.htm

Economagic.com: Economic Time Series Page
Over 100,000 US and international time series data files, with charts and Excel files for each. Strong emphasis on U.S. materials but includes series for Australia, Canada, Japan, and Europe. Also has time series for stock price indexes - Dow Jones, S & P and Nasdaq.
url: http://www.economagic.com/

RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet.
This web site has a whole section on links to economic statistics and data. The links are arranged in broad categories - U.S. Macro & regional, other U.S. data, world & non U.S., finance and financial markets.
url: http://rfe.org/

WebEc Economics Data
WebEc lists and describes material that could be of interest to mainly academic economists and is at least in part freely available on the Internet.
url: http://www.helsinki.fi/WebEc/webecc8d.html

Statistical Resources on the Web: Foreign and International Economics
University of Michigan site concentrating on economic statistics.
url: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stecfor.html

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Statistics by Region

Australia | Great Britain | United States | China | International

Australia

ABS Economy
Provides statistics on Business Indicators, Foreign Trade, National Accounts, Prices, Foreign Investment and Debt, Balance of Payments and Government Finance
url: http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/d3310114.nsf/Home/themes

Monthly Economic and Social Indicators
Data and graphs provided by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library.
url: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/mesi/

Reserve Bank of Australia
Current and historical data for a range of financial issues. Includes - government finance, financial markets, interest rates, exchange rates, money and credit and payments.
url: http://www.rba.gov.au/

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Great Britain

Office of National Statistics (UK)
Provides the latest figures and press releases.
url: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/

StatBase
StatBase® has been set up to provide access to a comprehensive set of key statistics drawn from the whole range of official statistics.
url: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/mainmenu.asp

The UK in Figures
Official Statistics for the United Kingdom.
url: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/

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United States

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Economic and labour statistics. Includes employment and labour force, prices and living conditions, compensation and working conditions, productivity and technology. The site also has international economic and labour statistics. For some series there is historical data also available.
url: http://www.bls.gov/

Economic Statistics Briefing Room - The White House.
Government links to economic indicators for the U.S. and presents them in a tabular form. Employment, income, money, output, prices, production, transportation, social statistics in crime, demography, education and health.
url: http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html

Fedstats
One-stop site for a large range of US government statistics
url: http://www.fedstats.gov/index.html

Stat-USA
An internet based collection of government databases, including the National Trade Databank, the Economic Bulletin Board, the Commerce Business Daily, and the Survey of Current Business.
url: http://www.stat-usa.gov/

Statistical Abstract of the US
Available as a pdf file. Provides a statistical overview for subjects including labour and employment. earnings, income, prices, banking and finance, business, transportation, trade, foreign commerce and the industrial outlook. Covers 1995-1999.

China

National Bureau of Statistics of China

url: http://www.stats.gov.cn/english

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International

Country at a Glance
url: http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_g_map.htm

Global Statistics (UN)
Searchable database of United Nations Statistical publications.
url: http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/global.htm

International Statistical Institute
This site contains links to a range of international statistical data, as well as to major national statistical agencies.
url: http://www.stat.unipg.it/iasc/Misc-stat-official.html

OFFStats
OFFSTATS lists web sites offering free and easily accessible social, economic and general data from official or similar "quotable" sources, especially those that provide both current data and time series.
url: http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz/subjects/stats/offstats/

Statistical Resources on the Web: Foreign and International Economics
University of Michigan site concentrating on economic statistics.
url: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stecfor.html

Statistical Resources on the Web: Foreign Government Data Sources
University of Michigan site with links to official IGO and national statistical sites.
url: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stforeig.html

Statistics from International Agencies
A wide selection of government and economic statistics links from the University of Pennsylvania.
url: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/business/statistics/intlstats.htm

Statlib
Statlib is a system for distributing statistical software, datasets, and information by electronic mail, FTP and WWW. Based in the Department of Statistics, at Carnegie Mellon University
url: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/

US Census International Database
Worldwide Demographic Data
url: http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/

UGDDS: General Data Dissemination System
IMF site with access to data by country and topic.
url: http://dsbb.imf.org/gddsindex.htm

World Economic Outlook (WEO) Database
Database of international economic statistics produced by the IMF.
url: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2000/02/data/index.htm

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Statistics by Category

Labor Statistics | Trade Statistics | Transport Statistics | Historical Statistics |

Labor Statistics

Labor Statistics on the Web
ILO database which allows searching employment and other labour statistics by country and time period.
url: http://laborsta.ilo.org/

The Labour Economics Gateway
Statistics on labour markets and datasets for labour research
url: http://labour.ceps.lu/datastatisticsframe.cfm

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Trade Statistics

ITC Database: International Trade Statistics
Data in these tables is taken from the COMTRADE database of the United Nations Statistics Division.
url: http://www.intracen.org/tradstat/sitc3-3d/index.htm

Trade Statistics
World Trade Organization website which contains up-to-date aggregate developments in world trade.
url: http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm

Foreign Trade Statistics - US Census Bureau
Current and historical trade statistics, products traded with U.S., the top trading partners. There is also information on product codes and a range of information papers.
url: http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www/

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Historical Statistics

How much is that?
Information and search screens for calculating historical statistics such as GDP, exchange rates, purchasing power
url: http://www.eh.net/hmit/

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