Guides: Data for Business & Economics: Home

Welcome!

This resource guide is primarily intended to provide links to "core" fee-based and free interactive databases and data sets. Please consider this guide a work in progress. Your suggestions for favorite data sets will be considered for inclusion in this guide. Please compile links to your favorites and email them to me at dmfutor@ilstu.edu.

NOTE: This site replaces an earlier site titled: "Statistical Sources for Business."

Business / Economics Dataset & Statistics Collections (Milner)

International Financial Statistics
Financial statistics database providing data from the International Monetary Fund.
SimplyAnalytics
Create visual, thematic geographical maps and custom reports using 100,000+ data variables. Limited to two simultaneous users. Sign in as a guest or create an account (with a unique username and password).

View data by state, congressional district, city, county, ZIP Code, census tract, or block group with data that includes population, age, gender, race & ethnicity, income, education, jobs & employment, poverty, language, ancestry, family types, marital status, vehicles, transportation, household & housing, market segments, consumer behavior, health, technology, finance, retail, business locations, and crime. It also includes the D&B business points-of-interest file and marketing data from Mediamark Research (MRI) and Simmons Research with information on over 8,000 brands, 450 categories including consumer behavior, attitudes, health, technology, finance and retail data. Experian MOSAIC consumer lifestyle segmentation and Nielsen PRIZM is also available with the most comprehensive and precise insights using demographics and consumer lifestyle data.
iPoll (Roper)
Statistics and data gathered from multiple surveys administered by organizations in the United States, Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Data includes opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, and international affairs. To download datasets, create a personal account.

Provided by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, Roper iPoll is the largest collection of poll data anywhere — from 1935 to present. Contains data from U.S. and international polling firms with broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more. International and U.S. datasets available for immediate download.
Nexis Uni
Full text database including United States and foreign news/newspapers, business information, company profiles, legal information, and reference sources. Help Videos

Also includes: news transcripts, federal cases, state cases, law reviews
NBER Working Papers
Full text research-focused economic working papers from the National Bureau of Economic Research that are geared toward professional economists.

Includes sources published from 1994 to present
OECD iLibrary
Compilation of information and data about finance, investment, insurance, industry and services, taxation, and trade; includes articles, summaries, working papers, e-books, book chapters, tables, graphs, and datasets.

Includes sources published from 1998 to present
S & P Global NetAdvantage
Comprehensive tool for finding business and investment information including stocks, bonds, funds, industry analysis, company profiles, corporation records, mutual fund reports, executive information, and industry surveys. Export data to Excel.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Online version of the print source and includes statistics and data gathered from multiple government agencies and represents social, political, and economic life in United States. Data is viewable in table format or as an Excel spreadsheet.
Statistical Insight
Comprehensive statistics database including data from federal and state agencies, international intergovernmental organization, professional, business, and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, and universities.

Includes sources published from 1974 to present

Business / Economics Dataset & Statistics Collections (FREE)

Bureau of Economic Analysis
National, international, regional and industry economic databases.
EDGAR (SEC)
Financial data (in report format) for millions of U.S. and international companies.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Home of FRED, ALFRED, FRASER and other economic datasets and tools.
Federal Reserve Board Data Releases
International Labour Organization
Access to official core labour statistics and estimates for over 200 countries since 1969.
Panel Study of Income Dynamics
The longest running longitudinal household survey in the world.
Standard & Poor's Indices
Includes S&P 500, Case-Shiller Home Price Indices and much more.
UN Data (United Nations)
Portal to hundreds of UN data sets.
World Bank
Portal to hundreds of World Bank data sets.

Reference

Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics by Neil J. Salkind
Call Number: HA29 .S2365 2011
ISBN: 9781412979597
Be sure to also look at the accompanying workbook.
Statistics in a Nutshell by Sarah Boslaugh
Call Number: QA276.12 .B67 2012
ISBN: 9781449316822

Research Assistance

Danielle Futoran Turos

Contact:

Email me: dmfutor@ilstu.edu
Call me: 309-438-5891
Visit me: Milner Library, room 418
Please contact for in-person appointment.

Subjects: Accounting, Business Administration, Business Education, Business Information Systems, Finance, Insurance, and Law, International Business, Management & Quantitative Methods, Marketing, Masters of Business Administration

Finding / Mapping Tools

IMF Data Mapper
OECD.stat
Extract data from across OECD datasets.
Statistics from A-Z (OECD)

Other Resources

Khan Academy
Various video tutorials on basic probability & statistics--designed to cover fundamental concepts in an easy-to-understand fashion.

Data Analysis

Introductory Statistics with R by Peter Dalgaard
Call Number: QA276.45.R3 D33 2008
ISBN: 9780387790534
Just Plain Data Analysis (eBook) by Gary M. Klass
Call Number: HA29 .K58 2012
ISBN: 9781442215078
Finding, presenting, and interpreting social science data.
Using Stata for Quantitative Analysis by Kyle C. (Clayton) Longest
Call Number: HA32 .L66 2012
ISBN: 9781412997119
SPSS for Dummies (eBook) by Arthur Griffith
Call Number: HA32 .G743 2010eb
ISBN: 9780470599976
Publication Date: 2009-12-09