Research Guides : Law and Economics Research Guide: Data Sources

Data Sources Lists

The following portals will provide extensive lists of links to data sources.

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These online resources are available to FSU students, faculty, and staff only.

TracFED
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.
Global Development Finance
World DataBank
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.
iPoll Databank
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.
Value Line Investment Survey Reports
Provides overall views on the economy and stock market as well as descriptive information and performance projections for 1,700 stocks.

These sources are freely available on the Internet.

U.S. Census Bureau
Subject listing of data sources.
U.S. Census Bureau - Business Dynamics Statistics
U.S. Census Bureau - Economic Indicators
FedStats
Statistics collected by federal government arranged by topic, geographical location, and agency.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Labor economics and statistics resource.
Panel Study of Income Dynamics
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.
Web BRD
Bankruptcy research tool
The World Factbook (CIA)