LibGuides: IE Brown Executive MBA: Data

Social Sciences Data

This page contains a representative sample of common datasets in economic and social science research. Additional sources for data in social sciences can be found on the Social Sciences Data Resources Guide and the Open Data Guide

Demographic Data

SimplyAnalytics (Formerly SimplyMap) This link opens in a new window
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A web-based mapping, analytics, and data visualization application that incorporates access to many different demographic and consumer data sets.
SimplyAnalytics is an online data exploration and mapping tool that incorporates access to many different data sets including data from the US Census. Spatial data can be exported to ESRI Shapefile format. Tabular data can be exported in multiple formats for use with Microsoft Excel or other statistical analysis programs and maps and other visualization outputs can be exported to various graphic formats for including in reports and papers.
For first time users, please register with SimplyAnalytics using your Brown email address and do so while you are connected to the internet via Brown University's network.
PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
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A data and web mapping application that provides access to thousands of indicators related to housing, crime, mortgages, health, jobs, demographics and education, current.
Current; Policymap is an online data and mapping application that gives access to over 15,000 indicators related to housing, crime, mortgages, health, jobs, demographics and education. Data are available at all common geographies (address, block group, census tract, zip code, county, city, state, MSA) as well as unique geographies like school districts and political boundaries. Data come from both public and proprietary sources. Many of the public files are available for download. Through PolicyMap, you can access all data in interactive maps, tables, charts, reports and through a unique analytic tool. You may also upload your own address level data and share your data and interactive maps with others.Tutorials.

U.S. Economic Sources: Public and Open Data

IPUMS USA
Public Use Microdata Samples from the decennial census (1850 to present) and the American Community Survey (2000 to present). Anonymous samples of records from these series (full count data is available for series where confidentiality has expired - see history section above).
Bureau of Economic Analysis
The direct source for principal federal economic indicators. Explore additional tools, research resources, and papers from the U.S. Department of Commerce
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Direct source for consumer price index and other government statistics related to inflation, employment, productivity, workplace injury, and labor.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Direct source for data in table format including - 10 year economic projections and historic data.
FRASER (Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research)
FRASER is a digital library of U.S. economic, financial, and banking history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System - from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. When used in connection with data contained in FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) and ALFRED (Archival Federal Reserve Data), FRASER allows the researcher to create uninterrupted data series by accessing sources previously available only in printed form and those currently available electronically (on FRED and ALFRED).
FRED
Current and historic data. Download, graph, and track 529000 economic time series from 87 sources from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
ALFRED (Archival FRED)
ALFRED allows retrieval of data at specific dates in history.
NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Current and historical; NBER is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. Provides data sets about macroeconomics, industry, international trade, individual income and expenditure data, etc.
Federal Reserve Board Data
Current and historical data including interest rates, commercial bank, household finance, exchange rates, and other banking data directly from the Federal Reserve bank.
Economic Census - US Censu Bureau
Data from the results of the economic census - conducted every five years. Last survey conducted in 2017 - data will be released on a flow basis from September 2019 through December 2021.

Global Data Sources: Library Databases and Datasets

China Data Online This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to statistical data, 1952-present
1952-present; collection of statistical materials including: Monthly Statistics, National Statistics, Provincial Statistics, Monthly Industrial Data, Yearly Industrial Data, Statistics with Map & Charts, and Statistical Yearbooks.
Prowessdx Service / CMIE This link opens in a new window
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Key financial data for over 40,000 Indian companies.
Current; detailed financial information with time-series data for 40,000 public and private companies in India.
Economic Outlook / CMIE This link opens in a new window
Provides demographic, financial, political, socio-economic, and business data about the Indian economy
Current; macro-economic forecasts and analysis and real-time analysis of data releases and copious indicator data for the Indian economy.

To use Economic Outlook, please click on LOGIN and then register for your username and password.
OECD Health Statistics This link opens in a new window
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A source of comparable statistics on the health and health care systems of the OECD economies, includes data found in the publication Health at a Glance, current.
Current; OECD Health Data is a source of comparable statistics on health and health care systems of the OECD economies. It enables health researchers and policy advisors in governments, the private sector and the academic community to carry out comparative analyses and draw lessons from cross-country comparisons of national health care systems. Many time series going back as far as 1960. Main fields covered include:
* Health Status * Health Care Resources * Health Care Utilisation * Expenditure on Health * Health Care Financing * Social Protection * Pharmaceutical Market * Non-medical Determinants of Health * Demographic References * Economic References
OECD Social and Welfare Statistics This link opens in a new window
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A source for statistics on public and mandatory and voluntary private social expenditure at the program level, current available.
Current available; OECD Social and Welfare Statistics includes a dataset in the area of social expenditure, of which the main social policy areas are as follows: old age, survivors, incapacity-related benefits, health, family, active labour market programmes, unemployment, housing, and other social policy areas. It also includes income distribution, which covers comparable data on the distribution of household income to provide both a point of reference for judging the performance of any country and an opportunity to assess the role of common drivers as well as drivers that are country-specific. Benefits and Wages series addresses the complicated interactions of tax and benefit systems for different family types and labour market situations, and the Child Well-Being dataset compares 21 policy-focused measures of child well-being in six areas, chosen to cover the major aspects of childrens lives: material well being; housing and environment; education; health and safety; risk behaviours; and quality of school life. Finally, Pensions at a Glance is covering all 34 OECD countries, and is designed to show future entitlements for workers who entered the labour market in 2008 and spend their entire working lives under the same set of rules.