Bill Goffe’s Resources for Economists Page:   His links to data:  http://www.rfe.org/Data/index.html

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS):  A source of lots of labor market, productivity, and price data. 

Link:   http://www.bls.gov/

Economagic:  Contains lots of macro data that can easily be moved into a spreadsheet.

Link:  http://www.economagic.com/ 

Econometrics Laboratory Software Archive (ELSA) – U.C. Berkeley:  Researchers at Berkeley have placed many of their data sets here, e.g. micro data from the current population survey, various household surveys, and R & D data. 

Link:  http://elsa.berkeley.edu/data2.shtml

Energy Information Administration (EIA):  Data include numbers of habitants, GDP, energy consumption. 

Link:  http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/iea/contents.html

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis – Economic Research:  A source of more macro data.

Link:  http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

Federal Reserve Bank: 

Link:  http://www.federalreserve.gov/

FedStats: 

Link:  http://www.fedstats.gov/

Government Documents, Tulane Depository:   The Government Documents collection serves as a warehouse for U.S. government generated databases.   It  is located in the basement of Howard Tilton Memorial Library.  If you have some notion of what you are looking for, the staff there should be able to help direct your search.  Link:  http://library.tulane.edu/about_the_library/departments/government_documents.php

Inflation Conversion Factors for Dollars 1665 to 2013:   A site by Robert Sahr of Oregon State University.

Site:  http://oregonstate.edu/dept/pol_sci/fac/sahr/sahr.htm

InfoNation:  Contains indicators for U.N. nations. 

Link:  http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm

Internal Revenue Service: 

Link:  http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/taxstats/index.html

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR):  This is a massive on-line data library run by Michigan.  Tulane is a member of the consortium so Tulane students should have free access to the files.

Link:  http://www.icpsr.umich.edu

Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota:  Links to IPUMS-USA (a coherent national census database spanning 1850-1990) and IPUMS-International (collects and attempts to harmonize international census data).

http://www.ipums.umn.edu

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER):  This site has lots of both macro and micro data.  Also NBER has created SAS data sets for many of these data.

Link:  www.nber.org

National Longitudinal Surveys:  These data sets are largely funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics and conducted by Ohio State University’s Center for Human Resource Research. 

Link:  http://www.bls.gov/nls/

National Opinion Research Center (NORC):  NORC has put together the General Social Survey which asks people opinions about thousands of issues.  These types of variables can be investigated with limited dependent variable models (e.g. probit, logit).

Link:  www.norc.uchicago.edu/

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) - (Federal Budget): 

Link:  http://w3.access.gpo.gov/usbudget/

Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD):   

Link:  http://www.oecd.org/home/

Panel Study of Income Dynamics: 

Link:  http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/psid/

Social Security Administration: 

Link:  http://www.ssa.gov/

United Nations – Global Statistics:  Contains the database FAOSTAT – Food and Agriculture Organizations of the United Nations. 

Link:  http://unstats.un.org/unsd/

United Nations Systems of Organizations: 

Link:  http://www.unsystem.org/

U.S. Census Bureau:   Much of the data reported for the U.S. is derived, in one way or another, from this organization.

Link:   http://www.census.gov/

U.S. Department of Commerce: 

Link:   http://www.commerce.gov/

White House Economic Statistics Briefing Room: 

Link:   http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html  

World Bank: 

Link:  http://www.worldbank.org/data/