EH.net or the Economic History Services web site is an excellent resource for resources of interest to Economic Historians. However, whenever you are looking for historical economic data, check the EH.net databases page, which includes a range of U.S. and global historical data series that have been submitted to the site.
Is Northfield a bedroom community? About 572,000 people live in Washtington D.C., but, given all the people who commute to work there, how many people are in the city during working hours? Answer these questions and more with the Census Bureau’s new Estimated Daytime Population measure. “The concept of the daytime population refers to the…
If you are looking for GATT trade documents, you might want to start with the GATT Digital Library, a digital library of over 30,000 public documents published between 1947 and 1994. The library is a shared project of Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) and the WTO. “At present this site provides access…
Doing Business – The World Bank Group “The Doing Business database provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 155 economies. They indicate the regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity and growth.” Good for: comparing…
The ILO web site provides access to their Working time database, which can be browsed or searched by country, region, subject or free text. “The working time database is a searchable database providing information on the working time laws of more than 100 countries around the world. It covers laws that protect the health and…
Adam Carr’s Election Archive “Largest, most comprehensive archive of electoral information in the world, with election statistics from 174 countries.” quoted from the web site.
If you have ever used the World Resources Series published by the World Resources Institute (in cooperation with the UNDP, UNEP, and World Bank) for its data tables, you will love the EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal. Well-documented, comparative data drawn from major sources on economic, demographic, political, resources and energy topics.
STAT-USA, one of the library’s subscription databases, announces that their product USA Trade Online (though listed on the library’s databases page, you need to visit the reference desk for access) will now include port-level trade data. Here is what the press release has to say: Currently there are about 45 districts reported. Each district is…
CensusScope: Census 2000 Data, Charts, Maps, and Rankings is a great supplement to the United States Census’s FactFinder web site. It’s strength is its graphics which help make Census data more clear and accessible to a wider audience. With just a few clicks, you can view maps, trend lines, charts and rankings for your state,…
Data on the Net From the University of California, San Diego’s searchable listing of 850 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.