Business & Economic Data Sources

Access data through products and tools including data visualizations, mobile apps, interactive web apps and other software.

BLS is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.

BEA is a U.S. government agency that provides official macroeconomic and industry statistics including the gross domestic product of the U.S.

Federal Reserve Economic Data, a widely used database of U.S. and international economic time series from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

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.

The leading source for U.S. energy statistics, covering production, consumption, prices, and trends across all energy sectors.

Provides US public health statistics including diseases, pregnancies, births, aging, and mortality.

Integrated census and survey data from the U.S. and worldwide, harmonized across time for easy comparative research.

Offers important datasets on land, water, minerals, ecosystems, and natural hazards.

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 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.

NCES collects, analyzes and makes available data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.

Free platform that allows users to collect, analyze, and visualize shared U.S. government data.

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.

Provides data on aviation, freight, and other modes of transportation, supporting economic and infrastructure research.

CDC Wonder is a system for disseminating Public Health data and information.

Quickly access selected statistics on a variety of health topics.

USEPA source that provides extensive environmental data, including air and water quality, hazardous waste, chemical releases, and more.

Provides a summary of national indicators of child well-being and monitors changes in these indicators over time.

A collection of vintage versions of U.S. economic data.

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

Contains detailed Federal Election Committee data about federal campaign financing, useful for political science and policy research.

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.

FRASER is a digital library and archive of Federal Reserve, economic, and banking history, featuring publications, archival collections, and data.

The New York Fed provides research and statistics that contain valuable information about the economy.

Web portal for discovering and requesting access to restricted microdata from federal statistical agencies.

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.

Statistical branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System.

Provides data on social security benefits, earnings, and demographics relevant for social policy and economic studies.

Provides datasets that can help guide the exploration and extension of research ideas for topics connecting technology and criminology.

Provides data on broadband access, spectrum, and telecom infrastructure; supports digital equity and communications research.