ECON 465 Senior Seminar: Data Sets & More

Excellent data source includes interactive tables to narrow search to relevant data for your project.

Excellent source especially if you can dig down a bit. Start by clicking on the SUBJECT AREAS tab.

LIS is a cross-national data center which serves a global community of researchers, educators, and policy makers.
LIS acquires datasets with income, wealth, employment, and demographic data from a large number of countries, harmonises them to enable cross-national comparisons, and makes them available for public use by providing registered users with remote access.

This database brings us government data on grants and contracts covering: the granting/contracting agency and/or program, the name of the grantee/contractor, the date of the grant/contract, the amount of the grant/contract, the purpose of the grant/contract, the place of performance of a grant, by state or congressional district.

Provided to help the public research and follow legislation in the United States Congress and the state legislatures, the main goal is to promote and innovate government transparency, civic engagement, and civic education through novel uses of technology.

Three areas of interest on this website: The Research tab has working papers, the Country tab lets you get data for specific countries, and the Data & Statistics tab has excellent interactive tools.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has as its mission to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.

The Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania (CICUP) was created to facilitate study and data on the world and specifically comparison data.

A document published monthly that includes data sets. Search it via the following databases: ABI/inform, Omnifile Full-TextMega, or Business Source Complete.

Economic, Demographic, Energy, Social and other data sets available via friendly search engine.

Census Bureau data on every aspect of life in the U.S. taken from the information gathered during the Census.

Data and Statistics including maps representing various health topics worldwide.