Economic Data and Resources
U.S. data State & regional data International data Calculators, Tools, etc Economic History Articles, Reports, etc.
- Bureau of Economic Analysis http://www.bea.doc.gov/ - Survey of Current Business, etc.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/blshome.html - Consumer price index, unemployment rates, hours and wage reports, and "Economy at a Glance".
- Economic Census http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/econ/www 2
- Economic & Housing Data - National Association of Home Builders http://www.nahb.org/page.aspx/generic/sectionID=150
- Economic Policy Institute http://www.epinet.org - "Datazone" and "Economic Snapshots" contain charts and graphs on labor, sustainability, living wage and other economic issues.
- Economic Statistics Briefing Room (White House) http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html - Provides current updates of the best known Federal economic statistics
- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis' Woodrow http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/ - With the Beige Book, a well-known the national economic summary
Financial Crisis Library Guide (Colorado State University)
- Global Financial Data - Historical U.S. and international financial and economic data. Access is not free; individual subscriptions are available.
- Liber8 - An economic information portal from the St Louis Federal Reserve Bank. Contains data and recent articles.
- State of Working America 2008 (tables & charts)
- STAT-USA (U.S. Dept. of Commerce). (Subscription for CSU Chico students, faculty, staff) http://www.stat-usa.gov/
- Select State of the Nation http://www.stat-usa.gov/econtest.nsf - for the latest news on economic indicators such as the consumer price index, unemployment rates, GDP, etc.
- Select State of the Nation Library http://www.stat-usa.gov/online.nsf for historical backfiles of economic data, plus hearings, testimony, the Beige Book, etc.
International Data
- California State University, Chico - Center for Economic Development http://www.csuchico.edu/cedp/ - Economic data for northeastern California counties.
- California Labor Market Information (California Employment Development Department) http://www.calmis.cahwnet.gov/
- Economic Census for California (U.S. Census Bureau) http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/97EC_CA.HTM
- EPI Datazone (Economic Policy Institute) http://www.epinet.org/datazone/ - State and regional labor market trends.
- RAND California http://ca.rand.org/ - California statistics, including business and economics, government finance, socioeconomic & health, demographics, etc. (Subscription for CSU Chico students, faculty, staff)
- Regional Economic Info System (University of Washington) - List of best links for regional economic information http://govinfo.kerr.orst.edu/reis-stateis.html
- Western Regional Economy (Bureau of Labor Statistics) http://www.bls.gov/ro9home.htm - Compiles CPI and Unemployment Rate data for the western states. Detail is provided for California and its cities, including Chico-Paradise.
Calculators, Data Sets, Glossaries
- Country Watch http://www.countrywatch.com - Includes macroeconomic overviews and data on countries.
- Doing Business - From the World Bank, describes and compares the regulatory environment of economies around the world. ttp://rru.worldbank.org/doingbusiness/
- Global Financial Data - Online access to historical financial and economic data. Access is not free but individual subscriptions are available.
- p://www.stern.nyu.edu/globalmacro/Penn World Tables http://cansim.epas.utoronto.ca:5680/pwt/ - Economic data for 152 countries.
- IMF Country Page (International Monetary Fund) http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2000/02/index.htm - see also World Economic Outlook, Meriam Library Main Collection HC59 W64.
Articles, Reports & Working Papers tp://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/sylloge/econlit/econlit.html
- CPI Calculator (What is a Dollar Worth?) http://minneapolisfed.org/Research/data/us/calc/ - Computes the effect of inflation on prices; covers 1913 to 1998.
- Cost of Living Comparisons (Datamasters) http://www.datamasters.com/cgi-bin/col.pl - 1999 cost-of-living comparisons for U.S. metro areas.
- Economagic.com: Economic Time Series http://www.economagic.com/links/ - A comprehensive collection of time series and other data sets useful for economic forecasting, compiled by Ted Bos of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
- iFigure.com http://ifigure.com/ - A collection of calculators for money, business, mathematics, engineering and living.
- Journalist's Guide to Economic Terms http://www.facsnet.org/tools/ref_tutor/econo_term/glossary.html
- SEC Mutual Fund Cost Calculator (U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission) http://www.sec.gov/mfcc/mfcc-int.htm
- Salary Calculator (Home Fair) http://www2.homefair.com/calc/salcalc.html
- Universal Currency Converter http://www.xe.net/ucc/
- Fed in Print (Federal Reserve Bank of S.F.) http://www.frbsf.org/publications/fedinprint/index.html - A searchable index to Federal Reserve economic research (some documents are full-text.)
- Liber8 - An economic information portal from the St Louis Federal Reserve Bank. Contains data and recent articles.
- Online Economics Textbooks http://www.oswego.edu/%7Eeconomic/newbooks.htm - A selection of basic economics texts available in full-text on the Internet.
- Resources for Economists on the Internet http://rfe.org/ - Compiled by Bill Goffe, University of Southern Mississippi.http://e-conomy.berkeley.edu/