Law and Economics Research Guide: Data Sources

Helpful list from U. of Minn.

Other Data Collections

Links to other lists of social science related sites

TRACFED includes a vast range of information about federal enforcement activities — criminal, civil, and administrative — as well as detailed information about federal staffing, federal funds, and the diverse characteristics of counties, federal districts, and states. Users can customize searches to view specific statistics, detailed listings, maps or charts.

Includes economic, social and environmental indicators, drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partner agencies. The database covers more than 900 indicators for 210 economies with data back to 1960.

Full text database of 500,000 questions from national public opinion surveys since 1935 and updated daily. iPOLL includes survey results data from academic, commercial and media survey organizations such as Gallup, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, ABC, CBS, Wall Street Journal and many more. Many data sets are available for download in ASCII or SPSS format.

Provides overall views on the economy and stock market as well as descriptive information and performance projections for 1,700 stocks.

Subject listing of data sources.

Statistics collected by federal government arranged by topic, geographical location, and agency.

Labor economics and statistics resource.

Begun in 1968, the PSID is a longitudinal study of a representative sample of U.S. individuals (men, women, and children) and the family units in which they reside. It emphasizes the dynamic aspects of economic and demographic behavior, but its content is broad, including sociological and psychological measures.

Bankruptcy research tool

Data sources.