Economics 127: Urban Economics

A guide to social science data sources organized by topic and geography.

From the Paul Clarke Nonprofit Resource Center

Access to the 2010 decennial census, the American Community Survey, and the Economic Census.

Provides access to statistical data produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. There are up to 2 billion charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables available for use in the Data-Planet repository. Link to Ready Reference interface.

Interactive visualization tool that utilizes the decennial censuses and American Community Survey data.

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research. World's largest archive of social science data. Election data, opinion polls, more. Special collections on Health, Education, Aging, Crime, Substance Abuse. A great place to begin looking for raw data. Many dataset files come formatted for major statistical packages (Stata, SPSS, SAS).

See population change, density and apportionment on a map of the United States using new Census 2010 data.

The American Housing Survey (AHS) collects data on the Nation's housing, including apartments, single-family homes, mobile homes, vacant housing units, household characteristics, income, housing and neighborhood quality, housing costs, equipment and fuels

This catalog provides a listing of datasets published at http://data.gov and converted into RDF http://data-gov.tw.rpi.edu/. There are 2190 datasets published at data.gov (see listing ). There are 2284 data files mentioned in the datasets (see listing). Be sure to check out the Main Page of this site

Users can access data from multiple indicators in one place and all in the same format. This tool provides an easy way to create data tables in ASCII text or time series charts in your favorite spreadsheet format. Users can select an indicator and choose data by item, time period and other dimensions using drop-down menus.

Includes state, city, regional housing price indexing data in quarterly and monthly increments; also provides a calculator and historical data; and downloadable data.

A database of over 3000 U.S. economic time series. With FRED® you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series.

The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices measures the residential housing market, tracking changes in the value of the residential real estate market in 20 metropolitan regions across the United States.

This site provides current information on the most recent releases of many data series useful for your research

PolicyMap is a fully web-based Geographic Information System. You can even use our GIS mapping services to easily incorporate your own data and leverage it against the thousands of indicators already available in PolicyMap. Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates.

2013 to the present. Continues and updates the Census Bureau's publication. Also included in ProQuest Statistical Insight.

Consists of more than fifty high-precision samples of the American population drawn from fifteen federal censuses and from the American Community Surveys of 2000-2011.

Statistics from the Bureau of Transportation

Tisch Book Stacks HA 202 .A1. Latest in Tisch Reference. Online version 1995- . The standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Serves as a convenient volume for statistical reference...

This tool, made for economic development, provides a fast and simple way to calculate whether a county, region, or neighborhood (based on census tract groupings) may meet certain federal grant thresholds based on unemployment and per capita income.

National and Regional GDP data including GDP by State and Metropolitan Area and State and Local Area Personal Income

Economic statistics by geography, sector, and frequency.

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Provides India-specific socio-economic statistical facts and figures culled from various secondary level authentic sources. Includes industry, labor, tourism, population, health, education, and general data.

Current and historical data for China, including geospatial data/GIS and Census data. It provides easy access to the various statistical yearbooks published by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, comprehensive statistics, and Census data of economy and population at national, provincial, city, county, and even township levels.

See CURRENT data at a glance. If you want to see and create older reports use the Build Query option above.

Annual entries begin in 1945; quarterly and monthly entries begin in 1945. Balance of payments, interest and exchange rates, trade and banking statistics; tables for every country.

Euromonitor's Passport, is a comprehensive market research database incorporating detailed statistics and research analysis of global markets and consumers. Its emphasis is on consumer-related industries across more than 200 countries and regions.

Data from the United Kingdom!

Documents, previously known as World Development Sources (WDS) contains more than 14,000 World Bank documents which are made available to the public in order to better share the institution's knowledge base.

From World Bank. See the data in a table, on a map, in a graph, download it...

"Through original reporting, sharp analysis, and visual storytelling, CityLab informs and inspires the people who are creating the cities of the future—and those who want to live there."

Also covers agglomerations & administrative divisions for all countries of the world. Statistics and interactive maps of these populations

Find this data/statistics and other data/statistics about world cities

U.S. Census Bureau

There is a new section for Cities under COUNTRIES & CONSUMERS. You can get analysis reports, data and all sort of good information, and it lists the sources of where the info came from.

Provides statistics on 90 large metropolitan regions in the OECD countries and shows how these regions have changed over the past decade.

Print: Ref HA175 .M55 2003

Print: Ref HA 1107 .M5 2003

Print: Ref HA 4675 .M552 2003

"International historical statistics; 1750-2010 3-volume set is the latest edition of the most authoritative collection of statistics available. Updated to 2010 wherever possible, it provides key economic and social indicators for the last 260 years, serving as an essential reference source."

Covers 1790-2000, with special non-population census, including manufacturing, special historical and modern reports and publications in .pdf and .zip formats you can download. You cannot search the pdfs.

Manipulate data from the census, population, housing, etc. from 1790 to 1960.

Fully searchable and downloadable compendium of statistics that includes over 37,000 data series on various topics. Allows users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets.

Print: 5 vols. Ref HA 202 .H57 2006.
Print version of Historical Statistics of the US Online above.

A private nonprofit organization devoted to independent research and innovative policy solutions

is one of the main resource you should be using in your urban economics research.

A nonpartisan economic and social policy research organization.