This blog features useful websites with commonly used datasets for socio-economic research.
- The database contains data for the EU, the euro area, EU Member States, candidate countries and other OECD countries, for a total of over 40 countries
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- The official site of the Federal Reserve includes information about interest rates, monetary policy, and economic indicators for both consumers and financial professionals.
- The Correlates of War project collects and disseminates quantitative data in international relations.
- Contains citations and some full text of articles, monographs, and working papers written by Federal Reserve researchers from 1960 to present.
- Database of more than 300,000 economics books, articles and working papers, many with downloadable full text.
- Searchable database of the IMF's economic reports, country studies, and working papers, most with full text.
- Investopedia helps you understand complex financial concepts, improve your investing skills, and learn how to manage your money.
- OECD.Stat enables users to search for and extract data from across OECD's many databases.
- Data sets cover media & news, social trends, and Internet & technology.
Transparency International research
- Free data on corruption
- Offers free access to 60 million statistical records from 24 UN agencies. Searchable by keyword or browse by topic or country.
- UN iLibrary is the comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations
- Arguably the most commonly used datasets in the world
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