Guides: Data for Business & Economics: Home

Subject Guide

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

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 (IMF)
Includes access to authoritative, harmonized global statistical databases providing datasets concerning all aspects of international and domestic finance, with historic data to 1948. Available data includes: direction of trade, balance of payments, government finance statistics, coordinated direct / portfolio investments, financial access survey, financial soundness indicators and international reserves data.
iPoll Databank (Roper)
Contains results from half a million survey questions asked in the US and abroad over the last 65 years by more than 150 survey organizations; useful for students of advertising & marketing research. Includes survey instruments, topline reports and downloadable datasets. A personal account must be created in order to download datasets.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic)
Acces to key financial data and other variables on over 80 million public and private companies.
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Links to hundreds of custom data sets used in the NBER research program.
OECD iLibrary
Datasets, tables and statistical publications with hundreds of variables pertaining to business and economic conditions in OECD countries.
S&P's Global NetAdvantage
Provides ability to access COMPUSTAT analytics and generate reports that include financials and ratios for individual companies, or comparative financials & ratios for top companies in an industry group.
Statistical Abstracts of the United States
Statistical Insight
Statistical data produced by the US government, including data from the American Statistics Index and Index to International Statistics.

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.

Business / Economics Dataset & Statistics Collections (FREE)

Bureau of Economic Analysis
National, international, regional and industry economic databases.
Data.gov
Database catalog
EDGAR (SEC)
Financial data (in report format) for millions of U.S. and international companies.
Eurostat
Portal to European statistics.
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.
International Statistical Agencies
For data that's "straight from the source" so to speak.
Panel Study of Income Dynamics
The longest running longitudinal household survey in the world.
Penn World Table
Provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 189 countries/territories for some or all of the years 1950-2010.
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.

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, Finance, Insurance, and Law, International Business, Management & Quantitative Methods, Marketing, Masters of Business Administration

Finding / Mapping Tools

American FactFinder
DataFerrett (Census Bureau)
A unique data analysis and extraction tool-with recoding capabilities-to customize federal, state, and local data to suit your requirements.
IMF Data Mapper
OECD Factbook Explorer
OECD.stat
Extract data from across OECD datasets.
Statistics from A-Z (OECD)
World Bank Data Visualizer

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