Data
Useful Data & Resources
Rodrigo Wagner
updated July, 2012
- Data, code and figures used for comments about Poverty reduction and economic growth in Chile ZIP folder (July 2012)
A few useful resources for Students at Tufts: Entrepreneurship| Global Business & Finance
- Google Scholar through Tufts w/ access to journals [Requires Tufts' Password]
- The Economist electronic edition through Tisch Library [Requires Tufts' Password]
- Financial Times [ w/ Tufts Password]
- The Wall Street Journal [ w/ Tufts Password]
- RGE (Roubini Global Economics) through Tisch Library [Requires Tufts' Password]
- Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports [Tufts IP]
- New York Times Historical Edition since 1851 [Tufts Libraries]
- International Financial Statistics (IFS) of the IMF [Tufts' Password]
- References on Entrepreneurship @ Tufts Library
- References and Links about Global Trade and Investment @ Tufts Library
DATA RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH, BY TOPIC
- International Data about Households & JobsCensuses from IPUMS – U Minnesota Population Center | Harvard-MIT data center | Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) | HNPStats – the World Bank’s comprehensive database of Health, Nutrition and Population | Living Standards Measurement Study (World Bank) | Latin American Household Survey Data Bank (IADB – MECOVI) | Jobs flows in Latin America (IADB) | Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies | Family Life Surveys at RAND |
- International Data: GeneralUN Common database | World Development Indicators | International Financial Statistics (IMF) | Penn World Tables | Harvard Center for International Development DATA | | Asian Development Bank Statistical Database | IFPRI Datasets (note some surveys and Social Accounting Matrices | OECD Development Database on Aid Activities: CRS online | Groningen Growth and Development Centre (many useful datasets and industry panels) |
- International Trade Data:WITS (World Integrate Trade Solution), World Bank | Center for International Data UC David (Robert Feenstra) | WTO International Trade and Tariff Database | International Input Output (I-O, IO) Tables from GTAP at Pardue University | Correspondences between Trade data classifications by UN COMTRADE | Correspondences and other attributes of traded commodities by Peter Schott | Jon Haverman’s Index of International Trade Data (Macalester) |
- Data from AfricaCenter for the Study of African Economies (Paul Collier) |
- Macroeconomics and financeSt. Louis Fed FRED (nice updated macro series) | International Financial Statistics (IMF) | Trade integration and business cycle synchronization in Latin America (IADB) | Currency composition of firm’s liabilities in Latin America | CLYPS Public Debt in Latin America | Central Government Debt in the World (Ugo Panizza) |Italian Survey on Household Income and Wealth (Bank of Italy) |
- Geography and Natural Resources: Maps | Latin America Natural Resource Data (Vincent, 2001) | Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis | Harvard Map Collection | Mineral Resources Data System |
- Food, Agriculture, Rural and relatedInternational Food Policy Research (IFPRI) Databases | FAOSTAT |
- ChinaChina Data Online |
- Values , Culture and Public Opinion:World Value Survey | LatinoBarometro , Latinobarometro Harvard-MIT | Trust and Cooperation in Latin America (IADB experiment) | General Social Survey (US) | European Values Study |
- Conflict and warCenter for the Study of Civil War, PRIO |
- Migration Data: New Immigrant Survey (US) [Princeton ] | Latin American Migration Project [Princeton ] | Mexican Migration Project |
- Historical DataHistorical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition. | Historical Statistics. org | Penn’s guide to historical statistics | Total Economy Database (Conference Board & Groningen Growth and Development Center ) | Angus Maddison’s World Population, GDP and Per Capita GDP, 1-2003 AD | Gregory Clark’s data on Industrial Revolution and England | Historical Cross Country Technology Adoption Dataset (Diego Comin & Bart Hobijin, 2003 version) , (2009 version in Stata and Explanation)| NBER macro Historical database (also access through FRED) |
- US Data: Current/Recent Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) | Bureu of Labor Statistics | Bureau of the Census | Input Output Matrix | Current Population Survey | Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)
- US Data: Historical DataNational Archives (NARA) – Access to Archival Database | Trends in the American Economy in the Nineteenth Century (Easterlin et al, Includes inter regional data since 1840 aprox) |
- European DataEurostat | REGIO (regional data from the EU’s Eurostat) |
- Governance and ConflictQuality of Government Data | Governance Matters VII 1996-2007 | The Politics of Policies in Latin America Data | Political Particularism around the World (Panizza) | Peace Research Institute of Oslo (peace, guns, conflict…) | Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown) |
- City level data CITIBASE |
- Chilean DataCASEN Household Surveys, MIDEPLAN | Industrial Survey ENIA | Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas | Agricultural Statistics (ODEPA) | Alberto Hurtado University, Social Surveys (Panel 1996-2000-2006) and others | Otras encuestas Alberto Hurtado University | CEP Public Opinion Surveys | Central Bank of Chile, Statistical Databases | Higher Education Council Databases (Consejo Superior de Educacion) |
- Chilean Data: Historical ChileanEconomic History and Clio Lab (UC Chile): GDP and many other series | Inflation and Exchange rate (1810-2005) |
- ArgentinaInstituto Nacional de Estadisticas y Censos (Argentina) | Development of Bond Markets (survey to firms and others) |
- BrazilIPEA |
- Latin American DatasetsDevelopment of Bond Markets (survey to firms and others), see web appendix | RegistroNacional.com, Index of different Personal and Firm records in 10 Latin American Countries. |
- Entrepreneurship Data & Technology TransferChuck Eesly website with entrepreneurship data links (@ MIT) | Kauffman Foundation Databases | D&B’s Million Dollar Databases | Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) project | GEM Chile, Data | Association of University Technology Managers | Data Maven, the Kauffman Foundation’s new blog on entrepreneurship and innovation data | Panel Study on Entrepreneurial Dynamics (U of Michigan) | Blog of Entrepreneurship data (Kauffman Foundation) |
- Venture Capital Data VentureSource | Thomson’s (VentureXpert) ONE Banker | Clean Energy… | Recombinant Capital (recently bought by Deloitte) | British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association | US National Venture Capital Association |
- Financial DatabasesGlobal Financial Data | |Worldscope | Worldscope within Datastream at HBS | Bank Scope at HBS | Economatica (Latin America) | Insurance Companies Worldwide (ISIS) |
- Police, Crime and CorruptionComunidad Segura . org (Look at “statistics”) | Small Arms Survey |
- Crimen y Sociedad (Biblioteca historica Policia ARG BRA) | Insyde (México) | Centro de Estudos de Criminalidade e Segurança Pública (U. Minas Gerais; Brazil) | Instituto Latinoamericano de Seguridad y Democracia (ILSED) |
- GIS Data Harvard GIS Library | International Potato Center | FAO Geospatial Database | Catalogo Nacional de Informacion Territorial, Chile |
- Marketing and Mailing List related data: USA :Melissa Corporation (Commercial provider) Many Databases USA, Voters, New businesses, … | Marketing and Mailing List related data: Argentina:Argentinean Databases (basesargentinas.com.ar) {Does this work ?} | TVInternet08 (Chile, Argentina, España…) |
- People and organizations that compiled links or data NBER Data Links | Michael Kremer’s page on data | Mark Hopkins cross country links to different datasets | Rodrigo Paillacar | Peter Schott |
- Macroeconomic and Financial data straight from STATA’s command line [Sep 28 2012] There are a couple of very useful STATA add-ons that allow you to get access to data series automatically; directly from STATA’s code
stockquote shows Yahoo Finance data. You need to lookup for the tecker in yahoo, but once you have it; then it’s quite easy to work with. (installed by simply typing ssc install stockquote and then doing help stockquote)
/* Command below gives you the stock prices for BHP Billiton, the Mining company from 1/2/2000 to 3/4/2012 on a daily basis */
stockquote BHP , fm(1) fd(2) fy(2000) lm(03) ld(4) ly(2012) frequency(d)
wbopendata allows for access to the broad set of yearly Panel data of the “World Development Indicators” compiled by the world bank; as well as to other series compiled by them. (installed by simply typing ssc install wbopendata and then doing help wbopendata)
/* This gets you many indicators on a yearly basis, for example CPI inflation and lending rate for many countries, although with missing values */
set more off
wbopendata , indicator(fp.cpi.totl.zg ; fr.inr.lend) year(1960:2012) long clear
freduse gets data directly from FRED, which is the Federal Reserve Economic Data , compiled by St Louis’ Fed. It has many series. (installed typing ssc install freduse and then doing help freduse).
/*For example this short do file gets you the unemployment data for Chile */
freduse CHLURHARMMDSMEI CHLCPIALLQINMEI
line CHLURHARMMDSMEI daten if year(daten)>=1986, ///
ytitle(“Unemployment in Chile [OECD Stats]“)