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Government Data Sources
Research Data Gov (new in 2023)
Web portal for discovering and requesting access to restricted microdata from federal statistical agencies.
ALFRED (Archival Federal Reserve Economic Data)
A collection of vintage versions of U.S. economic data.
American Community Survey
Ongoing survey by the U.S. Census Bureau that regularly gathers information previously contained only in the long form of the decennial census, such as ancestry, educational attainment, income, language proficiency, migration, disability, employment, and housing characteristics.
American Fact Finder
Access data about the nation's people and economy including demographic data and the Economic Census.
Bureau of Economic Analysis
BEA is a U.S. government agency that provides official macroeconomic and industry statistics including the gross domestic product of the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Source of statistics on commercial aviation, multimodal freight activity, and transportation economics. Provides context to decision makers and the public for understanding statistics on transportation.
CDC Wonder
CDC Wonder is a system for disseminating Public Health data and information.
Census - County and City Data
Provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books. Also provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets (subsets only available for 1988-2000).
Census Bureau: Data
Access data through products and tools including data visualizations, mobile apps, interactive web apps and other software.
Centers for Disease Control - FastStats
Quickly access selected statistics on a variety of health topics.
ChildStats
Provides a summary of national indicators of child well-being and monitors changes in these indicators over time.
Current Population Survey data - U.S. Census
Current Population Survey, sponsored jointly by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics is the primary source of labor force statistics for the population of the U.S.
Data.gov
Data.gov aims to improve public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Federal Government. The site has grown from 47 datasets at launch to over 180,000.
Data USA
Free platform that allows users to collect, analyze, and visualize shared U.S. government data.
Department of the Treasury - Data and Charts Center
Interest rates, public debt, auction info, and more.
Eurostat
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its mission is to provide high quality statistics for Europe.
Federal Communications Commission
FCC actively promotes the innovative application of agency data in the public and private sectors. FCC.gov/Developers connects citizen developers with the tools they need to unlock government data.
Federal Reserve of New York - Statistics
The New York Fed provides research and statistics that contain valuable information about the economy.
FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research)
FRASER is a digital library and archive of Federal Reserve, economic, and banking history, featuring publications, archival collections, and data.
FRED
Federal Reserve Economic Data
HealthData.gov
Site dedicated to making high value health data more accessible to entrepreneurs, researchers, and policy makers in the hopes of better health outcomes for all.
HUD User Data Sets
HUD USER provides interested researchers with access to the original data sets generated by PD&R-sponsored data collection efforts, including the American Housing Survey, HUD median family income limits, as well as microdata from research initiatives on topics such as housing discrimination, the HUD-insured multifamily housing stock, and the public housing population.
IPUMS
Provides census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community context. Data and services available free of charge.
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Statistical branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System.
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
Provides datasets that can help guide the exploration and extension of research ideas for topics connecting technology and criminology.
National Center for Education Statistics
NCES collects, analyzes and makes available data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.
National Center for Health Statistics (CDC)
Provides US public health statistics including diseases, pregnancies, births, aging, and mortality.
National Centers for Environmental Information
NCEI is the world’s largest provider of weather and climate data. Land-based, marine, model, radar, weather balloon, satellite, and paleoclimatic are just a few of the types of datasets available.
National Statistical Offices (United Nations)
Directory of National Statistical Office websites as compiled by the United Nations Statistics Division.
RBA Sources of Statistics
Provides a number of key starting points for statistics, including many international government sources.
StatsAmerica
Portal to US government data; a service of the Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.
