ECON 370: Economic Applications of Data Science: Home

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.

Data provided by the BLS on the web site is generally related to employment, productivity and prices. This includes the Consoumer Price Index, Producer Price Index, other statistics on inflation and prices, and Employment Statistics. Other subject categories can be seen by mousing over the Subject Areas tab at BLS or by checking here.

Penn World Tables is a database with information on relative levels of income, output, input and productivity, covering 182 countries between 1950 and 2014

Releases and leading indicators

U.S. government open data, maintained by the Federal Reserve Board of St. Louis

Access to all microdata projects of the Minnesota Population Center. Includes U.S. and international Census microdata for many years; and a variety of other topics: international health; Current Population Survey; time use; environmental and mapping (including, again, international data); and higher education.

UNC-Chapel Hill Library Guide

Factor data and returns

Academic finance datasets

International factor datasets

WRDS is the access platform for a suite of databases/data sources. This guide is a list of databases included in the UNC access, and it may be incomplete. Contact Kenan Flagler Library Research Services with questions about database access.

Visualization-ready datasets