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Below is a short list of web resources for business statistics. It's often very difficult to search for statistics sources, so if you don't find what you need here, please look at the book Business Statistics on the Web by Paula Bernstein. It is very thorough and lists so much more than could be included here.
Conference Board's Business Cycle Indicators
The Conference Board produces many major economic series and the web site includes the data as well as information on methodology, summary of changes, latest releases, data release dates, etc. Note: The full Business Cycle Indicators database is not searchable for free but Conference Board does "give away" current stats.
This calculator at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis allows you to compute how much dollar prices for goods and services have changed = inflation. Data can be calculated from year 1913 through the current year.
Provides access to over 100 economic reports from over 15 countries.
A database of links to regional socioeconomic data on the Internet. Has a "Ten Best Sites section" to direct you to websites proven reliable for up-to-the-minute information.
The Economic Policy Institute's web site has simple "snapshot" data (recent figures on labor market, family income, GDP, wages, trade, etc.) and "deep data" for a variety of things, including CPI from 1963, median family income from 1947, employment statistics, etc.
Search engine for US federal statistics from over 100 agencies. Variety of ways to search. A nice starting place.
A compilation of all major statistics with updates at least twice a day. Covers real sector (national accounts), fiscal sector (general government), financial sector (banking) and external sector (balance of payments).
Compares prices of more than 200 items in 144 cities across the globe.
A data rich site including monthly interest rate data, some historic data, t-bill rates, gdp, cpi, ppi, exchange rate data.
Searchable County and City Data Books (1988 and 1994 ed), Regional Economic Information System (1969-1998), County Business Patterns (1977-1998), and many other files of government supplied data.
Have you ever wondered what the value of a dollar was in 1895? Or what the GDP was in 1929? Here is a place where you can ask questions of comparative value covering purchasing power, exchange rates, and other variables between the past and today.
From the University of Auckland University Library; social, economic and general data from official sources, both current and time series, by country or topic, very international.
An online statistics textbook and stat lab from Rice University. Very comprehensive.
ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction. Available to the CSU campuses.
Statistics on social and economic conditions in the US; current edition in addition to an archive of past editions; PDF format.
From Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; international, strong in Asia and Oceania.
Comprehensive annotated guide; categories include business and industry, cost of living, foreign economics, U.S. government resources on the web from University Of Michigan Documents Center.
Definitive source for US business, trade and economic data; provided by the Department of Commerce. Remote access available only to CSULB Students, Staff & Faculty. Use your Library Password for remote access.
Interactive searchable database of international statistical information.
This site from the United Nations provides data from more than 30 specialized international data sources. Remote access available only to CSULB Students, Staff & Faculty. Use your Library Password for remote access.
Searchable database of international demographic and socio-economic statistical information.
Shows the national debt, posted along with Census figures and links to related sites on debt.
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Downloadable/Time Series Data
American Statistical Association (ASA) offers B&E DataLinks, a searchable index of statistical data. Each link is annotated, with the date last modified, and is rated by the ASA. Very user friendly interface to datasets. NOTE: Some of the data to which B&E points will be fee-based time series...some of which will be available to CSULB for free.
Economic time series from Inforum, University of Maryland, U.S., state/local and international. Charts size of file, latest date updated and description.
State, regional and national time series are downloadable into Excel.
1000,000 sets of time series; browse by region or source; charts the latest update, current figures, and whether Excel file format available.
This impressive collection of historical global financial data stretches from the years 1264 to 2000. While most of the actual data must be purchased, it does offer several free series, including Stock Markets since 1693, Interest Rates since 1700, and Inflation Rates since 1264.
Macro data, industry and individual data from NBER and other sources with links to other data sites.
National Accounts Economic Time Series from the Center for International Comparisons at the University of Pennsylvania.
Comprehensive guide to sources of numeric social science data from Social Science Data Collection, University of California, San Diego; search or browse over 400 sites that have downloadable data, also data archives and catalogs.
Comma delimited data files to download; from International Monetary Fund; aggregates at times back to the 1970's; good introductory information with definitions, explanations and instructions.
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Bimonthly summary from the California Department of Finance covering economic trends and data; data in Excel format from January 2000 to date.
From the California Department of Finance, covers 17 categories including area, populations, labor force and employment, cost of living, health, manufacturing, banking, and public finance; in Excel format.
Interactive access to government data about California.
Provides data from more than 100 databases; covers California and US public policy with heavy emphasis on statistics; data is often provided at national, state, county, city and zip code levels. Remote access available only to CSULB Students, Staff & Faculty. Use your Library Password for remote access.
From the U.S. Census Bureau; state profile covers population, demographics, housing, income, poverty, economic census, and county business patterns.
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University Library, California State University, Long Beach