Data Sets & Statistical Sources Research Guide

The PWT database has data on countries' relative levels of income, output, inputs and productivity. If you're looking for purchasing power parity (PPP), PWT is the place to go.

Open access to 100,000+ global economic and statistical datasets covering various asset classes, including stocks, forex, and cryptocurrencies. Both HTTP-based programmatic access and spreadsheet-based access (e.g., Excel, Google Sheets) are supported.

Lists and links to thousands of data sets on a wide range of topics, including many business-oriented ones, e.g. anonymized fraudulent credit card transactions, mall customer segmentation data, Google patents data, Chicago business licenses, etc.

Use it to find free datasets.

Free, but requires signing up. Collects and curates a wide range of public data from hundreds of international sources. and includes 3.3 Billion datasets on topics ranging from macroeconomic markets, labor markets, financial markets, demographics, trade, agriculture, technology to weather and more.

Portal to open data from US federal agencies with over 335,000 datasets.

Portal for discovering and requesting access to restricted microdata from US federal statistical agencies.

Connects users to data and reports published by Massachusetts state agencies.

Includes over 237,000 US and international time series from 69 sources, incl. national banks, financial firms, international organizations, US federal agencies, etc.

Retrieve vintage versions of economic data that were available on specific dates in history. Includes over 237,000 time series from national and international sources.

Includes different tools, among them a mapping application.

Interest rates, public debt, auction info, and more.

Portal to US government economic development data; a service of the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Using US government sources, a collaborative project by the MIT Center for Energy & Environmental Policy Research and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, provides intuitive visualization tools to make complex economic data accessible. The site covers production & capacity, shipments, trade, price indices, investments, employment, and more.

The statistical arm of the US Dept. of Transportation, BTS provides data on commercial aviation, multimodal freight activity, and transportation economics.

Archived topical listing of statistical data available from the CDC, an agency of the US Dept. of Health & Human Services.

Explore granular search interfaces into more than 40 specialized FCC databases such as radio call signs and equipment authorization.

Datasets for entrepreneurs, researchers and policy makers. Enter agency site or click DATASETS button in top menu bar.

The digest is a compendium of educational data covering all levels of public education in the US. NCES also has archived data and special topical reports.
Looking for IPEDS data? URL: https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/

Biomedical datasets from various repositories for users to search, discover, retrieve, and connect with datasets to accelerate scientific research.

NOAA NCEI (Natl. Centers for Environmental Information) is the world’s largest provider of weather and climate data.