Dr. Michael J. Murray

Assistant Professor of Economics

1500 Birchmont  Drive

Bemidji MN 56601      

218-755-2910

mmurray@bemidjistate.edu

Places to Find Data

Economic Data

• Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED): Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has macroeconomics data on components of GDP, price levels, interest rates, and more.
• Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): Data on employment, price levels, employee benefits, and more.
• Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA): Includes national and international macroeconomic data at national level, state and metropolitan level, and industry level. It also includes data on personal income and corporate profits.
• Economagic.com: Lots of economic data in an easy to download format.
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER): This is not exclusively economic data. It includes macroeconomic data, industry data, international trade data, population data, data on expectations, health data, marriage and divorce data, patent data, and a lot more.
• Penn World Tables: Provided by the University of Pennsylvania, this site contains national income and purchasing power parity data for 188 countries for part of all of the period 1950-2004.

Health Data

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Statistics Association (SAMHSA)
• Center for Disease Control (CDC)
• University of Michigan Health and Retirement Survey (Registration required)
• Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care: Data about medical care resources utilization, such as Medicare.

Other Data Sets

• Datasets on various subjects provided by Carnegie Mellon University.
• StatLib Archive: lots of different datasets provided by third parties. This is also brought to you by Carnegie Mellon University.
• Datasets on various subjects provided by CQ University - Australia.
• Various datasets from http://mathforum.org.