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Contents: General | Economic and Financial Data: United States | International or Foreign Country Data | More Information

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General

Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970. Washington, DC: Bureau of the Census; U.S. G.P.O., 1975.
Location: Morris Library - Census Area (C 3.134/2: H62/ 789-970/ pt.1-2)
Location: Internet (http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS55561)

The classic resource for historical statisitics. Updated by a new publication: Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present (Ref HA202 .H57 2006). Note: the new publication does not contain all the information.

Mitchell, B. R. International Historical Statistics: The Americas, 1750-2005. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HA175 .M55 2007)

Statistical Abstract of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Annual.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (workstation #30) for spreadsheet files
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HA202 .A1) Latest at Reference desk
Location: U.S. Documents (U.S. Doc Census Area, first row)
Location: Internet (http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS2878) (1878 -)

Published annually since 1878. Note: The CD-ROM version of Statistical Abstract in the Reference Room has links to tables in spreadsheet format, with time spans longer than the same tables in the PDF version.

Economic and Financial Data: United States

EconData.Net.
Location: Internet (http://www.econdata.net)

EconData.Net provides links to over 400 public, university, and private sources of regional socioeconomic data.

Economagic.com: Economic Time Series Page.
Location: Internet (http://www.Economagic.com/)

Over 100,000 data files. Note: some data services are fee-based.

Business Statistics. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press. Biennial.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HC101 .A132) Latest at Reference desk
Location: Library Annex - U.S. Documents (C 59.11/3:)

Compendium of time series data. Updated by Survey of Current Business.

Economic Indicators Handbook. Detroit, MI: Gale Research.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HC101 .E385)

Economic Report of the President. Washington, DC: U.S. G.P.O. Annual.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (HC106.5 .A272) latest 5 yrs.
Location: Morris Library (HC106.5 .A272)
Location: Internet (via GPO FDsys http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/)

An annual publication giving the President's report to Congrss and the Council of Economic Advisors report to the President. Includes a review of the economy in the previous year, the outlook for the present year, a discussion of administration long-term economic policies, and a report on the world's economy. The extensive section of statistical tables gives data relating to income, employment, and production for ranges of years.

Employment and Earnings. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. Monthly.
Location: Internet (http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS90975)
Location: Library Annex - U.S. Documents (L 2.41/2:)

See especially the March issue. Also see the supplements shelved next to E&E in Reference.

Federal Reserve Bulletin. Washington, DC: Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Monthly.
Location:Library Annex (FR 1.3:)
Location: Internet - (http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS23404) selected articles

Note: some issues available full text through Business & Company Resource Center.

FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data). St. Louis, MO: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Location: Internet (http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/)

Provides current and historical U.S. economic and financial data.

Handbook of U.S. Labor Statistics: Employment, Earnings, Prices, Productivity, and Other Labor Data. Lanham, MD: Bernam Press. Biennial.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HD8051 .H36) Latest in Reference
Location: Morris Library (HD8051 .H36)

National Economic Accounts. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Location: Internet (http://www.bea.gov/national/index.htm)

Measures the nation's total current production of goods and services (GDP) and the income generated in its production.

(REIS) Regional Economic Accounts. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Regional Economic Measurement Division. Annual.
Location: Morris Library - Microforms (DVD-ROM 28)
Location: Internet (http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS3241)

The REIS (Regional Economic Information System) database provides local area economic data for states, counties, and metropolitan areas for a twenty-year span. Statistics in the database include: personal income and earning variables, full and part time employment variables, transfer payments variables, and farm income and expenses variables.

Standard and Poor's Statistical Service. New York: Standard & Poor's Corporation. Monthly.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HC101 .S74a) Reference desk

Survey of Current Business. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis. Monthly.
Location: Internet - (http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS1730)
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HC101 .A13) Latest 2 years at Reference desk
Location: Library Databases via STAT-USA [restricted to UD]

Supplements Business Statistics. See especially: September issue for National Accounts, April issue for Personal Income, May issue for Gross State Products, June issue for Balance of Payments. Individual articles and tables are also available in STAT-USA, in the "State of the Nation Library."

Economy: Labor Force Data. University of Delaware, Center for Applied Demography and Survey Research.
Location: Internet (http://www.cadsr.udel.edu/ECONOMY/useconomy.cfm)

International or Foreign Country Data

Direction of Trade Statistics Yearbook. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund. Annual.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HG1 .D57) Latest in Reference
Location: Morris Library (HG1 .D57) Earlier yrs.

Contains data on the value of merchandise exports and imports between each country and all its trading partners. The Yearbook provides seven years of data for 183 countries and two sets of world and area summaries: world and area trade as seen by the reporting countries, and as seen by the partner countries to those transactions.

Government Finance Statistics Yearbook. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund. Annual.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HJ101 .G68) Latest in Reference
Location: Morris Library (HJ101 .G68) Earlier yrs.

Data on government expenditures. Provides ten years of comparative data.

International Financial Statistics Yearbook. Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund. Annual.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HG1 .I58) Latest in Reference
Location: Morris Library (HG1 .I58) Earlier yrs.

Presents statistical global financial data covering 12 years for countries appearing in the monthly issues of IFS. Data include: data on exchange rates, international liquidity, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts. Information is presented in country tables and in tables of area and world aggregates.

Labour Force Statistics. Paris: Organization for Economic Coorperation and Development.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HD5764 .A6 O58) Latest in Reference
Location: Morris Library (HD5764 .A6 O58) Earlier yrs.

Updated by Quarterly Labour Forces Statistics.

Main Economic Indicators. Paris: Organization for Economic Coorperation and Development.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HC10 .O68)
Location: Morris Library (HC10 .O68)

Mitchell, B.R. International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-2005. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HA4675 .M552 2007)

Mitchell, B.R. International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-2005. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HA1107 .M5 2007)

Penn World Table. University of Pennsylvania, Center for International Comparisons.
Location: Internet (http://pwt.econ.upenn.edu/)

The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 188 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2004. PWT needs to be downloaded.

Quarterly Labour Forces Statistics. Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Location: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HD5764 .A6 O582) Latest 2 yrs. in Reference
Location: Morris Library (HD5764 .A6 O582) Earlier yrs.

Supplements Labour Forces Statistics.

World Tables. Baltimore: Published for the World Bank by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Location: Morris Library (HC59 .W669)

More Information

Resources for Economists on the Internet.
Location: Internet (http://rfe.org/)

LexisNexis Statistical.
Location: Library Databases [restricted to UD]

LexisNexis Statistical has two important components: "Find a Table" and "Find a Publication."

• Tables – search and view statistical tables. Many of the tables are also available in spreadsheet format
• Find a Publication – search information about statistical publications and find an abstract (includes more publications than the Tables search)

To find publications for which only an abstract is available, check DELCAT or WorldCat Local. Also, the Library has three microfiche full-text libraries:

• Federal government publications not sent to depository libraries – ASI: American Statistics Index. Microforms - (Microfiche S262) Lib. has: 1974-2003
• State governments and commercial publishers – SRI: Statistical Reference Index. Microforms - (Microfiche S 166) Lib. has: 1980-2004
• Intergovernmental organizations, such as the United Nations – IIS: Index to International Statistics. Microforms - (Microfiche S 204) Lib. has: 1983-2004

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