ECONOMICS RESEARCH GUIDE

Statistics and reports of US economic information such as GDP, personal income, trade statistics, state-level economic information, and industry analysis.

Provides information on US consumer habits and behaviors.

A database of over 291,000 economic time series from 80 sources.

The ERS International Macroeconomic Data Set provides historical and projected data for 189 countries that account for more than 99 percent of the world economy. These macroeconomic data and projections are assembled explicitly to serve as underlying assumptions for the annually updated USDA agricultural supply and demand projections, which provide a 10-year outlook on U.S. and global agriculture.

"The Billion Prices Project is an academic initiative that uses prices collected from hundreds of online retailers around the world on a daily basis to conduct research in macro and international economics. It was founded in 2008 by Alberto Cavallo and Roberto Rigobon."

Datasets relating to bank assets and liabilities, business and household finance, money stock measures, exchange rates and international banking, industrial activity, interest rates and financial accounts.

Provides international information on wages, employment rates, cost of goods, hours worked, etc.

Culmination of US labor-related and consumer-related statistics including employment rates, wages, inflation, and historical data.

Current and historical data on incomes in the United States.

BLS statistics focused on the Virginia Economy including state and metropolitan level data.

Website covers statistics on occupations, employment, economic indicators for Virginia to the county and city level.

Results by City/Region.

"Specialty Crops Market News disseminates detailed information on marketing conditions for hundreds of agricultural commodities at major domestic and international wholesale markets, production areas, and ports of entry."

Established in 1915, Monthly Labor Review is the principal journal of fact, analysis, and research from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, an agency within the U.S. Department of Labor. Each month, economists, statisticians, and experts from the Bureau join with private sector professionals and State and local government specialists to provide a wealth of research in a wide variety of fields — the labor force, the economy, employment, inflation, productivity, occupational injuries and illnesses, wages, prices, and many more.

The Bank for International Settlements maintains a longitudinal dataset of policy interest rates, which central banks adjust to influence inflation and other aspects of the economy. The dataset, which includes both official policy rates and analogous precursors, covers three dozen countries plus the European Central Bank. The records span decades, going as far back as 1946 for Denmark, India, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK; 1954 for the US; 1960 for Canada; and 1976 for Australia.