U.S. Economic Data
My U.S. Government and Politics page may also provide relevant information or data.
General Economic Capabilities
Statistical Abstract of the United States: See especially the Statistics in Brief data tables for a variety of social and economic variables, and the complete list of tables for the last five statistical abstracts.
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U.S. Economic Statistics (from the White House)
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Industry and Wealth Data (from the Bureau of Economic Analysis)
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National Accounts Data (from the Bureau of Economic Analysis)
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U.S. Consumer Price Index Conversion
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 1880-present
- Variables Included: Conversion indices for the Consumer Price Index (CPI)
National Income and Product Accounts data are available from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and Jordan Rappaport at Harvard
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 1959-1994
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U.S. Business Cycle Expansions and Contractions (from the NBER at Harvard)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: December 1854 - March 1991
- Variables Included: Business Cycle Beginning, End, and Duration (in months)
Employment and Labor Statistics
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (all kinds of data on the U.S. economy)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: U.S, various length time series
- Variables Included: Collective Bargaining - Private Sector, Consumer Price Index (CPI) - All Urban Consumers, CPI - Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, Employee Benefits Survey, Employment Cost Index, Employment / Hours / Earnings - National, International Price Index, Special Export Comparison Index, Employment Projections by Industry, Geographic Profile, Occupational Injury and Illness Rates, International Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Department Store Inventory Price Index, Major Sector Multifactor Productivity Index, Producer Price Index Revision - Current Series, Producer Price Index Revision - Discontinued Series, Federal Government Productivity Index, Industry Labor Productivity Index, Major Sector Productivity and Costs Index, State and Area Employment, Hours and Earnings, Occupational Injury and Illness Rates, Producer Price Index, Work Stoppages
Trade
U.S. International Trade Statistics (from the U.S. Census Bureau)
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U.S. Imports/Exports History (from Oregon State University)
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U.S. Aggregate Foreign Trade Data (from the Office of Trade and Economic Analysis)
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U.S. Foreign Trade Highlights (from the Office of Trade and Economic Analysis; see also Reports on U.S. Trade)
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U.S. Monthly Trade Update and Foreign Trade Developments (from the Office of Trade and Economic Analysis)
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International Accounts Data (from the Bureau of Economic Analysis)
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Foreign Investment
U.S. Direct Investment Abroad (from the Bureau of Economic Analysis)
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Foreign Direct Investment in the U.S. (from the Bureau of Economic Analysis)
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State- and Local-Level Economic Data
Gross State Product (from Jordan Rappaport at Harvard)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 1963-1992
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U.S. State Export Data (from the Office of Trade and Economic Analysis)
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U.S. Metropolitan Area Export Data (from the Office of Trade and Economic Analysis)
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Regional Accounts Data (from the Bureau of Economic Analysis)
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U.S. Social Data
My U.S. Government and Politics page may also provide relevant information or data.
Statistical Abstract of the United States (see especially the Statistics in Brief data tables for a variety of social and economic variables, and the complete list of tables for the last five statistical abstracts)
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Statistical Abstract of the U.S. - Frequently Requested Tables
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General Social Survey Data Retrieval Page (from the ICPSR)
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U.S. Social Statistics (from the White House)
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- Variables Included: Income; Employment, Unemployment, and Earnings; Production and Business Activity; Prices; Money, Credit, and Securities Markets; Transportation; International Statistics
Population and General Demographic Data
National Population Estimates (from the U.S. Census Bureau)
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Population and Housing Unit Estimates Home Page (from the U.S. Census Bureau)
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Household and Housing Unit Estimates (from the U.S. Census Bureau)
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Historical Census Data (from the Census Bureau; see especially their population estimates and projections, which are available at the national, state, county, city, and metropolitan level for the estimates and national, state, household/family, and voting-age levels for the projections)
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U.S. Census Data (via anonymous FTP from the U.S. government)
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U.S. Population Series (from Miami University of Ohio; see also their readme file)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: United States, 1790-1980 (by decade) -- not all tables cover this entire period
- Variables Included: Table 1: population, rate of total increase, crude birth rate, crude death rate, rate of natural increase (births-deaths), rate of net international migration; Table 2: population by race (white-black-other), residence (% urban), nativity (% foreign born), median age, gender; Table 3 (split by white-black): birthrate, child-woman ratio, total fertility rate, life expectancy, infant mortality; Table 4: population (split by geographic region, urban/rural residency); Table 5: recorded immigration to U.S. by origin
Crime
Uniform Crime Reports (from the University of Virginia)
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Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
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Education
Quality Counts (Education in the 50 States)
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Immigration
Immigration Fact Sheet (from the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, or INS; see also their 1994, 1995, and 1996 reports)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: U.S., 1992
- Variables Included: Immigration, Foreign-born population, Naturalization, Refugees, Asylees, Nonimmigrants, Illegal immigration, Emigration
The Military
U.S. Active-Duty Military Personnel by Service (from the Department of Defense)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 1950-1995
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U.S. Active-Duty Military Personnel and Deaths (from the Department of Defense)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 1980-1995
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Non-Hostile Deaths among U.S. Active-Duty Military Personnel -- by Manner of Death (from the Department of Defense)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 1980-1995
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Worldwide U.S. Active-Duty Deaths in Recent Military Operations (from the Department of Defense)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 1980-1995
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U.S. Military Personnel and Casualties in Major Wars (from the Department of Defense; see also historical background and notes)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 1775-1995
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State- and Local-Level Social Data
State Populations (from Jordan Rappaport at Harvard)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: U.S. states, 1900-1995
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State of the Nation's Cities (U.S. city data, from Rutgers University)
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U.S. Regional Economic Data (from the University of Virginia)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 1969-1994
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Statistical Abstract of the U.S. - State Data Rankings (all 50 states ranked on a variety of social and economic measures; links to separate state abstracts are provided where available)
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U.S. State- and County-Level Profiles (from the U.S. Census Bureau; social and economic profiles of each state, county, and congressional district in the country)
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State and Metropolitan Data Book (includes city rankings on a variety of social and economic measures)
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County and City Data Book (see especially the list of tables and data lookup form)
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USA Countries (includes state and metropolitan rankings on a variety of social and economic measures)
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State Population Estimates (from the U.S. Census Bureau)
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County Population Estimates (from the U.S. Census Bureau)
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City/Place Population Estimates (from the U.S. Census Bureau)
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Metropolitan Area Population Estimates (from the U.S. Census Bureau)
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U.S. Political Data
My U.S. Government and Politics page may also provide relevant information or data.
Elections
National Election Studies (NES) (see also their Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior, Continuity Guide to questions asked in NES surveys, and online data and codebooks)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 1952-1992
- Variables Included: Demographics, Group Thermometers, Party ID, Political/Campaign Interest, Party Likes/Dislikes, Candidate Traits and Affects, Presidential Candidate Likes/Dislikes, Political Figure Thermometers, Approve/Disapprove President, Party Differences, Party Positions on Issues, Distance Between Party Positions, R Proximity to Party Positions, Support of the Political System, Government Performance, Vote/Participation, Media Exposure, Political Knowledge, Issues Positions of R, Additional Seven Point Scale Rankings - Presidential/House Candidates and Federal Government
Congress
Time Series Data on the U.S. Congress, 1947-1994 (from Eric Reinhardt; you may also download a zipped copy of the data and documentation directly)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: United States Congress and presidency, 1947-1994 (annual data)
- Variables Included: "a variety of Congressional and presidential institutional variables for the United States. Virtually all of these variables are already in the public domain, even in electronic form, and are provided here only for convenience. Variables include party contingents in House and Senate, net party and (gross) individual turnover in both chambers, observed party discipline (CQ and Cox-McCubbins measures), presidential approval ratings, and Congressional Quarterly presidential support scores."
ADA Scores for Congress (from Paul Gronke at Duke)
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Political Movements
Christian Davenport's Radical Information Project (a series of events data sets concerning radical groups within the U.S. These data sets are generally made available as Excel spreadsheet files, and are accompanied by various codebooks and papers using the data. There are currently three distinct data sets associated with this project:)
- Explorations of the Rashomon Effect in the Social Sciences - The Black Panther Party, 1967-1973
- Contention in Space-Time - The Republic of New Africa, 1967-1974
- Radical Civil Society in the United States (From the Left and the Right), 1969-1996
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U.S. Public Opinion Data
My U.S. Government and Politics page may also provide relevant information or data; my International Political Data page provides public opinion data from non-U.S. sources.
Gallup Organization (the well-known polling organization provides access to a variety of topical polling data on its web site. Topics include Politics and Elections, Business and the Economy, Policy and Social Issues, and Lifestyle, or all topics may be accessed from a page of Poll Topics from A-Z. Frequently asked poll topics can be traced over decades of polling from a page of Poll Trends, including such topics as presidential job approval, presidential favorability, presidential issues approval, congressional job approval, ratings of the economy, and election polls since 1936. Users may also find Special Reports, and Poll Analyses for both current and past Gallup polls.)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (varies by poll topic)
- Variables Included: (varies by poll topic)
Americans and the World polling analysis (a site that presents analyses of publicly available polling data on world issues)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (varies by poll topic)
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U.S. Presidential Approval, 1949-1994 (see also the codebook)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 1949-1993
- Variables Included: Dates of Polls, Poll Results (% Approve of president, % don't approve, % don't know), Monthly Economic Data (Unemployment Rate, Annualized monthly inflation rate, Moving average of inflation rate), Presidential Dummy Variables; FILE #2 (Subgroup data, 1953-1991): Date of polls, Poll Results (as above), Approval by Gender, Approval by Race, Approval by Party, Presidential Dummy Variables
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