Business & Economic Data Sources

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

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.

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

BLS is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and 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 is a system for disseminating Public Health data and information.

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

Quickly access selected statistics on a variety of health topics.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Federal Reserve Economic Data.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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