Economics

The most comprehensive visualization of U.S. public data

The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Integrated Post-Secondary Educational Data Service, National Center for Education Statistics

A section of the American Statistical Association

Just the data, no analysis

A comprehensive site of free, easily available economic time series data useful for economic research, in particular economic forecasting. The majority of the data is USA data. At this time, there are more than 100,000 time series for which data and custom charts can be retrieved. Why use this site? The vast number of economic time series, easily modified charts of that same data, and the availability of Excel files for all series.

FlowingData explores how statisticians, designers, data scientists, and others use analysis, visualization, and exploration to understand data and ourselves.

Census Reporter is a Knight News Challenge-funded project to make it easier for journalists to write stories using information from the U.S. Census bureau. Place profiles and comparison pages provide a friendly interface for navigating data, including visualizations for a more useful first look.

The MPC is one of the world’s leading developers of demographic data resources. We provide population data to thousands of researchers, policymakers, teachers, and students. All MPC data are available free over the internet.