Economics Datasets

Historical Sovereign Fiscal Data

Long time series of government revenue, expenditure, debt and interest.

EDGAR Database of SEC Filings

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) EDGAR database which contains regulatory filings from publicly-traded US corporations.

Yourtopia-Italy

This is a dataset we are building together during the Open Economics Hackathon on January 28. It includes indicators of social progress on a regional level in Italy.

YourTopia - Development Beyond GDP

Data dump from YourTopia app including over 4000 sets of weightings of the importance of various indicators in human development.

The World Top Incomes Database

Database of income shares of top end of population for long time periods (e.g. 1875-present) for a variety of countries around the world.

Total government expenditure as percent of GDP (World Economic Outlook)

A dataset with historical time series of government expenditure as percent of GDP, taken from the World Economic Outlook database.

US Consumer Price Index (CPI)

Main Consumer Price Index (there are many) from U.S. Department Of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics for "All Urban Consumers - (CPI-U)". U.S. city average for all items and…

Understanding the Emergence of "Open Science" Institutions

P. A. David, “Understanding the Emergence of Open Science Institutions: Functionalist Economics in Historical Context,” Industrial and Corporate Change, 13(4), August 2004:…

UK unemployment data from ONS (claimant count and ILO measure)

For ILO measure:

uk-ons-an-mort-dementia

This is a reformatting of the UK ONS annual mortality data 2010

UK Mortgage Approvals

UK Mortgage Approvals Data from the Bank of England

UK House Price Data (Nationwide)

Time-series of UK house prices sourced from Nationwide

UK House Prices 1983-2010 Quarterly (Halifax)

Halifax (now Lloyds) UK house price dataset. Data are seasonally adjusted.

UK House Prices CLG

UK Index is at Table 591 on the live tables Table 591: Notes quotes from CLG table 591 spreadsheet: "1 Data up to and including 2002 is from 5% sample. Data from 2003 is based on…

UK House Price Data (Consolidated)

A consolidated dataset of all the main UK monthly house price datasets with additional calculations.

UK Higher Education Statistics

Free statistics from the UK Higher Education Statistics Agency's website.

UK GVA Gross Value Added (GDP) output Index

Data set from UK Office for National Statistics

UK economic summary data

This is a set of UK economic summary data curated from sources such as ONS and Office for Budget Responsibility. Essentially its a collection snapshots of time series covering…

Total Expenditure on Research and Development - Italy

The R & D is defined as "creative work undertaken systematically in order to increase the stock of knowledge (including knowledge of mankind, culture and society) and to use this…

ThinkNum – Web-based Financial Data Analysis Engine

ThinkNum is a financial analysis engine which brings the functionality traditionally found on a wall street proprietary trading desk to an open platform. Users analyze stocks,…

Thatcher Wages in the Middle Ages

Daily Wages of Thatchers in the Middle Ages from Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages, Christopher Dyer, Cambridge University Press, 1989, p. 206 via…

Tertiary education by Italian region

Eurostat educ_regind database, R03_2 series: "Students in tertiary education (ISCED 5-6) - as % of the population aged 20-24 years at regional level", 2001 to 2010; data on…

EU procurement register (Tender Electronic Daily) 2006-2011

Data from EUs procurement register "Tender Electronic Daily", ted.europa.eu.

Students in tertiary education

Students in tertiary education as % of the population aged 20-24 years at regional level. Tertiary education includes both programmes which are largely theoretically based and…

Search Engines Market Share

Time-series data on search engine market shares around the world (late 1990s-present). Some figures and data come from Is Google the next Microsoft? Competition, Welfare and…

Schmidt_Shupp_Walker_Ostrom_2003

David Schmidt, Robert Shupp, James M. Walker, and Elinor Ostrom. 2003. “Playing Safe in Coordination Games: The Roles of Risk Dominance, Payoff Dominance, and History of Play.”

Rwanda Genocide Data

Revenue Watch Index Data

The Revenue Watch Index shows that about three-quarters (29 out of 41) of the countries provide scant or partial information about their extractive sector. This means that…

Revenue and expenditure of general government in Portugal 1995-2010

Table containing revenues and expenditures of the public administration in Portugal from 1995 to 2010. Source: INE - Statistics of Portugal

Penn World Table

The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 189 countries/territories for some or all of the years…

Price of Weed (Marihuana)

Crowdsourced database of Marihuana (weed) prices around the world.

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NBER US Patent Citation Database

Detailed information on almost 3 million U.S. patents granted between January 1963 and December 1999, all citations made to these patents between 1975 and 1999 (over 16 million),…

Open Exchange Rates

Current and historical exchanges rates for 120+ currencies relative to USD provided in bulk and via API. Earliest historical data is 2011-09-31.

Open Access Journals Economics

Scraped data from the DOAJ - Directory of Open Access Journals - http://www.doaj.org/doaj?cpid=19&func=subject

Old World Trade Routes Project

Trade routes and urban supply routes are the sequences of pathways and stopping places used for the commercial transport of cargo. Trade routes connect public markets. They also…

Number of registered patent applications - Italy

One of the main output indicators by which we measure the innovative activity of a country is the number of registered patents. These are derived from administrative sources and,…

Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth

The following files are associated with Jeffrey D. Sachs and Andrew M. Warner "Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth", Revised, December 1997.

Inflation Data UK 1750-2001

Annual inflation data extracted from research publication Richards, Patsy (2002): "Inflation: The value of the pound 1750-2001"

Helsinki_Siemens

The base scenario projects Helsinki’s CO2 emissions in 2030. This scenario was calculated by using Helsinki’s historical emission growth rate and taking into account the impact of…

Health statistics Italy

This dataset contains three regional data series of health data on Italy:

Gini coefficient in Italy

Income distribution Inequality

FTSE UK Index Series

Data on the FTSE UK Index Series including value, P/E ratio. The UK Index Series is designed to represent the performance of UK companies, providing investors with a comprehensive…

Feltovich_ Iwasaki_Oda_2012

Please cite the papers these data were used for:

Federal Reserve Loans to Banks During Financial Crisis

Federal Reserve data on emergency lending to banks covering the period August 2007 to April 2010 released in batches in Dec 2010, March 2011 and July 2011 as a result of the…

FDIC Failed Bank List

FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) list of failed banks for which it was appointed receiver. Data includes information on the acquiring bank (if applicable), how…

Exchange Rates

Consolidated historical exchange rate data from a variety of sources.

Eurostat - Science, Technology and Innovation

A dataset including:

Eurostat - Employment rates by sex and age, at NUTS levels 1 and 2 (%) [lfst_r_lfe2emprt]

The employment rate is calculated by dividing the number of persons aged 20 to 64 in employment by the total population of the same age group. The indicator is based on the EU…

Eurostat - At risk of poverty rate - Regional Time Series

This is the regional times series dataset of the "At-risk-of-poverty" rate by Eurostat - code "ilc_li41".

European Cities

This is compiled dataset of the Eurostat regional yearbook statistics for the NUTS 3 level.

Ethiopian Rural Household Surveys

Labour Market - Italy

This dataset contains three regional data series of employment data on Italy:

EDaWaX_WP2

These are the full datasets of our survey "research data management in economic journals." The data was created in the course of the research project "European Data Watch…

Statistics on World Population, GDP and Per Capita GDP, 1-2008 AD

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Economic Data from Klepper on Simons

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Federal Reserve Economic Data

Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) containing over 40,000 free US-related data series.

FRASER - Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research

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ALFRED: ArchivaL Federal Reserve Economic Data

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Early leavers from education and training - Italy

Early leaver from education and training generally refers to a person aged 18 to 24 who has finished no more than a lower secondary education and is not involved in further…

Democracy Timeseries Data Release 3.0, January 2009

This dataset is in a country-year case format, suitable for time-series analysis. It contains data on the social, economic and political characteristics of 191 nations with over…

Deficit and Debt

Government (annual) deficit and (total) debts over time around the world both in absolute terms and as a percentage of GDP. Includes:

Crawford_Gneezy_Rottenstreich_2008

Vincent P. Crawford, Uri Gneezy, and Yuval Rottenstreich. 2008. “The Power of Focal Points is Limited: Even Minute Payoff Asymmetry May Yield Large Coordination Failures.” The…

CPT - Spese PA

Spese della PA dal 1996 al 2011 per regione

Costa-Gomes_Crawford_Broseta_2001

Miguel Costa-Gomes, Vincent P. Crawford, and Bruno Broseta. 2001. “Cognition and Behavior in Normal-Form Games: An Experimental Study.” Econometrica, 69(5), pp.1193-1235

Costa-Gomes_Crawford_2006

Miguel Costa-Gomes and Vincent P. Crawford. 2006. “Cognition and Behavior in Two-Person guessing Games: An Experimental Study.” The American Economic Review, 96(5), pp.1737-1768

Corporate tax data Finland

As a new initiative the Finnish tax authorities has published corporate tax payments from corporate entities in Finland.

Clark_Sefton_2001

Kenneth Clark and Martin Sefton. 2001. “Repetition and Signalling: Experimental Evidence from Games with Efficient Equilibria.”

Chinese state-owned Enterprise Data

China provincial level ethnic, social, and environmental data

This dataset contains population, social, and environmental indicators for Chinese provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government. It…

Case-Shiller Home Price Indices

The S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices are the leading measures for the US residential housing market, tracking changes in the value of residential real estate both nationally as…

Bilancio Preventivo 2013 Bagnacavallo

Il Bilancio preventivo 2013 del comune di Bagnacavallo

Banking/Financial Crisis Episodes

Area and Population of Portugal and Spain by NUTS3

The areas in km2 and populations of the Portuguese and Spanish NUTS3 subregions. Data compiled from wikipedia articles.

A 1999 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Uganda

This paper presents a 1999 social accounting matrix (SAM) for Uganda that was constructed to meet the economywide modeling requirements undertaken by the International Food Policy…