Guides: Finding Data & Statistics: Economics & Finance

Economic & Employment Data

United States
International

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is an agency of the United States Department of Labor. It is the principal fact-finding agency in the broad field of labor economics and statistics and serves as part of the U.S. Federal Statistical System. BLS collects, calculates, analyzes, and publishes data essential to the public, employers, researchers, and government organizations. The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures labor market activity, working conditions, price changes, and productivity in the U.S. economy to support public and private decision making.
Bureau of Economic Analysis (U.S. Department of Commerce)
Search the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) website for economic statistics, including U.S. gross domestic product (GDP), state and local numbers, foreign trade and investment stats, and industry data.
FRASER - Economic Data
FRASER is a digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System. This collection provides access to statistical releases and other data publications contained in FRASER.
FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Data
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.
FRED Maps
Maps provide a cross-sectional perspective that lets you compare regions on a map while complementing and expanding the data analysis you get on a time-series graph. FRED has 9 types of maps: U.S. counties, U.S. metro areas, U.S. states, nations, Federal Reserve Districts, Census regions, Census divisions, BEA regions, and NECTAs (New England city and town areas).
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER): Public Use Data Archive
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, nonprofit organization that facilitates cutting-edge research on and analysis of major economic issues. It is nonpartisan and refrains from making policy recommendations, focusing instead on providing background studies and data that underlie decision-making in both the public and private sectors. The NBER Public Use Data Archive is an eclectic mix of public-use economic, demographic, and enterprise data obtained over the years to satisfy the specific requests of NBER-affiliated researchers for particular projects.

International Monetary Fund (IMF)
The IMF is a global organization that works to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity for all of its 191 member countries. It does so by supporting economic policies that promote financial stability and monetary cooperation, which are essential to increase productivity, job creation, and economic well-being. The IMF is governed by and accountable to its member countries.
World Bank Open Data
Free and open access to global development data

Company and Industry Reports

Hoover's Academic (Mergent) This link opens in a new window
Hoover’s™ Academic solution is a premier source of business information. Providing comprehensive up-to-date information through a global database of over 85 million companies, and 1,000 industries. Hoover's Academic solution provides unique insight to the core database of over 40,000 company profiles.This powerful research tool brings together company histories, news stories, financials, federal filings, executive biographies and more.
Coverage: Current
Full Text: Yes
Hoover's Company Profiles (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Conduct company, industry, economic and geopolitical market research with information from Hoover's Company Profiles - covering 40,000 global public and non-public companies including financials, competitors, officers, and more. A subset of Business Market Research Collection.
Coverage: 1986-
Full text: Yes
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
IBISWorld provides industry research that covers more than 700 industries as well as specialized industry reports on emerging industries. Reports include the industry at a glance, performance, outlook, life cycle, competitive landscape and more.
IBISWorld provides industry research that covers more than 700 industries as well as specialized industry reports on emerging industries. Reports include the industry at a glance, performance, outlook, life cycle, competitive landscape and more.
First Research Industry Profiles This link opens in a new window
Industry overviews with snapshots that include recent developments, business challenges, trends & opportunities, insight from executives, financial information, forecasts and ratings. Also, industry profiles for North American states and provinces.
Coverage: 2009-
Full text: Yes

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