Statistics Databases
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) data This link opens in a new windowIncludes:
International Financial Statistics – all aspects of international and domestic finance, with history to 1948.
Direction of Trade - value of exports and imports between countries and their trading partners, with history to 1980.
Balance of Payments - international economic transactions data and International Investment Position, with history to 1960.
Government Finance Statistics - budgetary and extra-budgetary financial operations data of governments, with history to 1990. - OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new windowJournals, books, and statistics from the Organization for Economic Development (OECD). Special emphasis on international economics, development and health; country economics, and agriculture. More than 45 different statistical databases, with internationational coverage.
Data Archives
- ICPSR This link opens in a new windowA searchable archive of social science data from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), an international consortium of over 750 research universities working together to acquire and preserve social science data, to provide open and equitable access to these data, and to promote effect data use.
In addition to archiving collections from such disciplines as sociology, economics, political science, and history, ICPSR also has a number of special emphases: gerontology, substance abuse and mental health, criminal justice, child care, health and medical care, and demography.
The data can be downloaded and analyzed in multiple software formats including SPSS, SAS, Stata, and R.
- Dataverse NetworkThe Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) collaborates with the Harvard University Library and Harvard University Information Technology organization to make the installation of the Harvard Dataverse Repository openly available to researchers and data collectors worldwide from all disciplines, to deposit data.
- Dryad Digital RepositoryThis repository is a curated resources that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. It is a repository for a wide variety of data types.
- Google Dataset SearchGoogle Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, you can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Internet.
- Open Data InceptionAccess 2600+ open data portals around the world. These portals generally connect to government or civic data.
- re3data.orgre3data.org (Registry of Research Data Repositories) is a global registry of research data depositories that covers research data depositories from different academic disciplines. It includes repositories that enable permanent storage of and access to data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers, and scholarly institutions.