Economics: Statistics and Data

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. It collects, analyzes, and disseminates essential economic information to support public and private decision making.

U.S. government's open data project where you will find data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, and more.

From the website: "The Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) plays three key roles within the Department of Commerce (DOC). ESA provides timely economic analysis, disseminates national economic indicators, and oversees the U.S. Census Bureau (Census) and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). E

SA’s expert economists and analysts produce in-depth reports, fact sheets, and briefings on policy issues and current economic events."

ERS collects data regarding agriculture and related fields including food safety and prices, commodity markets, rural economy and agricultural income.

The Center for Quantitative Economic Research (CQER) of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta advances empirical research in economics and promotes forecasting models usable for policy studies.

FRED is an online database consisting of hundreds of thousands of economic data time series from scores of national, international, public, and private sources. FRED, created and maintained by the Research Department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, goes far beyond simply providing data: It combines data with a powerful mix of tools that help the user understand, interact with, display, and disseminate the data.

From the website: "The IMF publishes a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators. Manuals, guides, and other material on statistical practices at the IMF, in member countries, and of the statistical community at large are also available."

The NASS provides information on every aspect of agriculture.

"The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political and economic conditions of the United States."

The BEA collects information on national and international trade, accounts, history, and economic indicators. Information is available by state, municipality and internationally.

Find economics indicators for new residential construction, retail trade, manufacturing and trade inventories and sales, advance monthly sales for retail and food services, monthly wholesale trade, US international trade in goods and services, rental vacancy rate, homeownership rate, and more.

Find data about the U.S., such as maps and population, demographic, and economic data.

Wolfram|Alpha defines a fundamentally new paradigm for getting knowledge and answers—not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms and methods.

"World Bank Open Data: free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe." Topics include education, energy & mining, poverty, economy & growth, trade, urban development and more.