DATA Sources

    Simple Descriptive Data:

•     CIA World Factbook (basic statistics on most countries)

    Excel Compatible

•     BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics for U.S. data)
•     Historical Data at eh.net
•     HFS (Historical Financial Statistics)
•     International Data at University California Davis
•     Penn World Tables (version 1)
•     OECD (data primarily for 28 member countries)
•     World Bank
•     World Bank's World Development Indicators (abridged version)

    More Advanced

•     ELSA (Econometrics Laboratory Software Archive)
•     FRED (Macroeconomic Data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)
•     General Social Survey at University California Berkeley
•     IPUMS (Individual and household level data, mostly from census)
•     NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research)
•     Penn World Tables (version 2)
•     PSID (Michigan Panel Survey of Income Dynamics)
•     United Nations Data (Country-level statistics, UNIDO for industry data)
•     World Population Prospects (from United Nations population division)