U.S. Macroeconomic and Regional Data

DataZone

This site, provided by the Economic Policy Institute, contains a variety of historical statistics on wages, income, employment, and related variables. Income and earnings series are available for alternative levels of educational attainment, geographical region, race, and gender.

Discount Rates -- historic through present

This page, provided by the Minneapolis Fed, contains historical discount rate data from 1914 to the present day.

1995 through 2005 Economic Reports of the President

The 1995 - 2005 Economic Reports of the President are available at this site (searchable versions are available from 1886-2005). This report contains a good deal of information on federal and state expenditures and receipts. Those interested in jumping directly to the data, may go directly to the Statistical Tables from the 2005 report.

1992-1994 Economic Reports of the President

Older issues of the Economic Report of the President are available at this gopher site.

Business Cycle Indicators (from The Conference Board)

This site provides data on business cycle indicators.

Bureau of Economic Analysis data

This site contains data files for the time-series data appearing in Survey of Current Business. (The entire Survey of Current Business is available to STAT-USA subscribers.)

Bureau of Labor Statistics

This site provides access to a large variety of BLS time-series variables using a variety of form-based search procedures that make it possible to narrow the search efficiently. A wide variety of labor market indicators are available at this site.

County and City Data Book

This publication contains demographic, educational, crime, wealth, labor force, and other statistics for U.S. cities and counties.

County and City Data Books (University of Virginia)

This site, provided by the University of Virginia, makes it possible to download data from the 1988, 1994, and 2000 County and City Data Books.

The Dismal Scientist

This site contains current and historical data on economic indicators. (Much of this is now only available by subscription.)

Economics Statistics Briefing Room (White House)

This page provides quick access to current economic indicators provided by a variety of federal agencies.

Economagic: Economic Time Series Page

This page, provided by Ted Bos of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, contains an extensive list of direct links to economic time series data files. Search capabilities and downloadable excel files are also available at this site.

Federal Reserve Data

The Board of Governor's collection of Federal Reserve data.

Federal Reserve District Bank home pages

Links to each of the District Banks pages.

FRED II

This new release of the Federal Reserve Economic Database, provides downloadable Excel files and provides a graphical display of each of the over data series.

FEDSTATS

This site, operated by the Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy provides statistical information from over 70 U.S. federal agencies. A search facility is available.

Missouri State Census Data Center's collection of 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. census data and data tables in Excel, ASCII, and SAS format.

This site contains a large collection of census summary tables that may be downloaded.

NBER historical macroeconomic series

A collection of time-series variables for the period predating the system of national income and product accounts.

Geospatial & Statistical Data Center

This site provides data on a variety of variables at the state, county, and SMSA levels from 1969 to the present.

Stat-USA (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)

A large collection of data and information. Subscribing individuals and institutions have access to more data.

U.S. Census Bureau

The Census Bureau's home web site contains information on its programs and links to online sources of individual or aggregated cenus data. Data on housing starts and many other macroeconomic indicators may also be found at the Census Bureau site.

U.S. Census Bureau - Data Ferrett

This service, provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, makes it possible to create extracts of data from any of the following data sets:

• Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)
• Current Polulation Survey (CPS)
• Americal Housing Survey (AHS)
• Consumer Expenditure Survey (CPS)
• Decennial Census Public Use Microdata Samples (PUMS)

After selecting the variables that you wish to extract from these data sets, a downloadable extract file is created and stored at the Census Bureau's ftp site. The use of this program requires a fair amount of free browser memory cache. Data files created by this program can be extremely large. Use this system carefully and be sure to only extract those variables that you require for your analysis.