The ILO’s Bureau of Statistics makes statistics available on its LABORSTA Internet. View and download data and metadata on employment, wages, consumer price indices, employment by sex, economically active population, occupational injuries, and more for over 200 countries. Topical collections can also be accessed online on child labor, labor force surveys, labor migration, and social…
According to the ICPSR metatdata, the sources for the IMF’s Direction of Trade Statistics are Central bank reports and bulletins, IMF area departments, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, International Labor Organization, IMF Treasurer’s Department, the United Nations, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and information from national authorities.
Quoting the site, the SPPQ Data Resource is “a series of data sets than include more than 50 state-level indicators on everything from crime rates to unified partisan control of state government. Many of these variables are available by state for a 20-year period (approximately 1974 to 1999). See the codebook for more detail. Geographic…
A new Economics metasite has come to my attention called Eco5.com. What’s the significance of the name? Beats me, they don’t explain it on their about page. Nevertheless, this site is packed with links to free statistics and data, with a particular strength historical data. The main page focuses on career resources, so follow the…
The Producer Price Index measures average changes in prices received by producers of all commodities, at all states of processing, produced in the United States. Browsing through the Monthly Labor Review, one can find examples of articles that use the PPI in their analysis.
Just out from the International Labor Organization is the 2004/2005 World Employment Report. This annual report highlights trends in global labor productivity. This year’s report particularly emphasizes the working poor. Download the report in pdf as well as the supporting data sets. The web site linked here also contains reports back to 1995.
Ever tried to locate GDP statistics for years before 1929? If so, then you’ll be as thrilled as I was to discover Economic History Resources – What Was the GDP Then?. This project by Louis Johnston and Samuel Williamson is available on the open web. For any year, or range of years, between 1789 and…
ESDS International is the web site of the Economic and Social Data Service and provides access to a range of international datasets.