Data Resources: Economic Data
This guide provides links to data resources on a wide variety of topics and administrative levels (international, national, state, county, and local).
Economic
- DataWeb-U.S. Trade and Tariff DataThe Premier source of free U.S. Trade & Tariff data.
- BEA Regional Economic AccountsEconomic data for states and cities from the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. Also includes specialized data such as for Hurricane Katrina. Uses the Regional Input-Output Modeling System (RIMS II).
- Bureau of Labor StatisticsAccess to extensive data in the areas of labor, economics and statistics. Includes links to state and regional resources.
- E-Stats: Measuring the Electronic Economy This link opens in a new windowDownloadable data tables of e-commerce statistics spanning over multiple years, based on U.S. census information. Tables include title, ID, notes, sources, and release dates.
- Economic Census This link opens in a new windowStatistics from local, state, and national levels of businesses in the United States.
- Economic Indicators This link opens in a new windowMonthly publication that provides economic information from April 1995 to present. This includes gross domestic product, income, employment, production, business activity, prices, money credit, security markets, federal finance, and internal statistics.
- Economic Report of the PresidentThe Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers' annual report which provides an overview of the nation's economic progress.
- Export SolutionsProvides support to American businesses to begin or expand their export sales.
Includes information about export topics, training opportunities, trade shows, and trade missions. - Export-Import Bank of the United StatesProvides working capital guarantees (pre-export financing), export credit insurance, and loan guarantees and direct loans (buyer financing) to small and large U.S. businesses involved in exporting goods and services to international markets. Fills the gaps in trade financing for risks that private financiers avoid. Matches the financing that other governments provide to their exporters.
- Bureau of Economic Analysis - International Economic AccountsInternational investment information from the U.S. government in tabular format.
- National Economic AccountsProvides a comprehensive view of U.S. production, consumption, investment, exports and imports, and income and saving.
- Page One EconomicsAn economic information portal for librarians and students.
Student Research Showcase
- How Government Fiscal Relief Affects Employment During 2020 Recession - Case Study of United StatesThis project was funded by Fondren Fellows Program.
Data sets from these agencies:
Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Research:
U.S. Census Bureau
USA Spending
Other Related Resources
- Prices and Wages by Decade / University of MissouriRUSA Award Winner.
- Tools for Teaching with FREDAn instructor’s guide to using St. Louis Fed resources in the classroom and at the library
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