Provides excerpts from Paul Ruud's textbook, data sets, MATLAB code, exercise solutions, and answers to frequent questions (
http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~ruud/cet/
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A tool for extracting data records and fields from public-information data files. The system produces custom extracts in various data file formats (
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/DES/www/welcome.html
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Data from an almost annual "omnibus," personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC, 1972-) (
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS
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An article from the Journal of Economic Education which contains ideas for building interactive homepages for economics classes (
http://www.indiana.edu/~econed/issues/v29_3/5.htm
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Inforum, at the University of Maryland. Access to several hundred thousand economic time series, produced by a number U.S. Government agencies and distributed in a variety of formats and media (
http://inforumweb.umd.edu/index.html
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A free email service from the St. Louis Fed; sends the latest updates to the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) database (
http://www.stls.frb.org/maillist/
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An excellent source of data on output, income, employment, unemployment, earnings, production and business activity, prices and money, credits and security markets, and international statistics. (
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.htm
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Gives a summary of current economic conditions by the Federal Reserve District. There are 12 Federal Reserve districts. (
http://www.federalreserve.gov/FOMC/BeigeBook/2002/
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This highly regarded private economic research institute has extensive data on asset prices, labor, productivity, money supply, business cycle indicators, etc. NBER has many links to other Web sites. (
http://www.nber.org
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Provides data on longitudinal survey of representative sample of U.S. individuals and families. These data have been collected annually since 1968. (
http://www.umich.edu/~psid
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This agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, which publishes the Survey of Current Business, is an
excellent source of data on all kinds of economic activities. (
http://www.bea.doc.gov/
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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis publishes historical economic and social data, which include interest rates, monetary and business indicators, exchange rates, etc. (
http://www.stls.frb.org/fred/fred.html
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The National Trade Data Bank provides the most comprehensive source of international trade data and export promotion information. It also contains extensive data on demographic, political, and socioeconomic conditions for several countries. (
http://www.stat-usa.gov/
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An excellent source of statistics collated from various federal bureaus, economic indicators, the Federal Reserve Board, data on consumer prices, and Web links to other sources. (
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stecon.html
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The home page contains data related to various aspects of employment, unemployment, and earnings and provides links to other statistical Web sites. (
http://stats.bls.gov:80/
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Annual personal interview survey data on U.S. households that began in 1972. More than 35,000 have responded to some 2500 different questions covering a variety of data. (
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/GSS/
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Data collected by nonpartisan and nonprofit university-based research center on a variety of questions relating to poverty and social inequality. (
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/
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