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Government Statistics | Financial Statistics | International Organization | Business and Private Sector Statistics | Tax Sources |Price and Wages | Data Archive | Household Panel Data | Historical Statistics | Sports Statistics | Cultural Statistics | Demographic and Health Statistics | Software Information | Software Program Library | My Statistical Collection


Government Statistics :
- Japan
Prime Minister's Official Residence
Ministry of Finance
Financial Services Agency
Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission
Economic and Social Research Institute
Quality-of-Life Policy
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, IAI (RIETI)
Japan Patent Office
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
National Institute of Population and Social Security Research
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan
Institute for Posts and Telecommunications Policy
Statistics Bureau & Statistics Center
- USA
BLS Home Page
The Economic Statistics Briefing Room
FRED
U.S.Census Bureau
Library of Congress
- UK
National Statistics - the official UK statistics site
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Financial Statistics :
- Japan
Bank of Japan
- United States
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
(Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
(Federal Reserve Bank of Boston)
(Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
(Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
(Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas)
(Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City)
(Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
(Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
(Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
(Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond)
(Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
(Federal Reserve Bank of St.Louis)
Interest Rate
The US Real Term Structure of Interest Rates
University of Chicago Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
US Securities and Exchange Commission (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval System--EDGAR)
- United Kingdom
Bank of England
London Business School (London Share Price Data--LSPD)
London Stock Exchange (LSE)
- Others
Thompson Financial (including Datastream, Extel, Worldscope, Global Access and I/B/E/S)
Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvD) (including Financial Analysis Made Easy--FAME)
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International Organization :
- United Nations Statistics Division
- World Bank
LSMS The World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study Household Surveys
- IMF
- OECD
- Other Sites
Welcome to Europa
POPIN Home Page
Population Reference Bureau
The State of World Population 1999 - 6 Billion A Time for Choices
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) works for children worldwide
UNESCO home page - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
International Labour Organization - ILO Web site
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Business and Private Sector Statistics :
- NBER
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Tax Sources :
- Financial Services Agency
- Institute of Fiscal Studies
- Inland Revenue
- The House of Commons Information Office
- Office of Tax Policy Research
- Statistics Canada
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Prices and Wages :
- International Institute of Social History Prices and Wages
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Data Archive :
- Cross-National Time Series Data Archive
- Economic and Social Reserch Council(ESRC)
- International Data Base (IDB)
- Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
- Political Science Data Resources
- FH Country Ratings
- The Polyarchy dataset : Vanhanen's index of democracy
- Polity IV Project : Political Regime Characteristics and Transitions, 1800-1999
- The Electoral Web Sites' (Elections around the world)
- Lijphart Elections Archive
- United Kingdom Election Results
- The United Kingdom Data Archive
- Journal of Applied Econometrics
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Household Panel Data :
- The National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS)
The National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) are a set of surveys designed to gather information at multiple points in time on the labor market activities and other significant life events of several groups of men and women. For more than 3 decades, NLS data have served as an important tool for economists, sociologists, and other researchers.
- Panel Study of Income Dynamics
The PSID is a nationally representative longitudinal study of neary 8,000 U.S. families. Following the same families and individuals since 1968, the PSID collects data on economic, health, and social behavior. The CDS focuses on the children and caregivers within PSID families, collecting information on education, health, cognitive and behavioral development, and time use
- Health and Retirement Study(HRS)
A Longitudinal Study of Health, Retirement, and Aging
Sponsored by the National Institute on Aging
- The German Socio-Economic Panel(SOEP)
A Representative Longitudinal Study of Private Households in the Entire Federal Republic of Germany
- Belgian Socio-Economic Panel(SEP)
Two-stage stratified epsem sample of Belgian private households, sample is representative for households and individuals
- The official source for Canadian social and economic statistics and products
- Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID)
The Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) is a longitudinal household survey conducted by Statistics Canada.
- French Household Panel
- British Household Panel Survey
The British Household Panel Survey is a multi-purpose study whose unique value resides in the fact that:
# it follows the same representative sample of individuals - the panel - over a period of years;
# it is household-based, interviewing every adult member of sampled households;
# it contains sufficient cases for meaningful analysis of certain groups such asthe elderly or one parent families;
# it allows for linkage of data both from other surveys and from local area statistics.
- Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey
The RLMS is a series of nationally representative surveys examining the health and economic welfare of the Russian Federation.
- Swiss Household Panel (SHP)
The Swiss Household Panel (SHP) is an annual longitudinal survey financed by the Priority Programm "Switzerland Towards the Future" of the Swiss National Science Foundation, the University of Neuchatel and the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO) serving multiple purposes.
- The Institute for Research on Household Economics (Japan)
- The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA)
HILDA Survey is a household-based panel survey, which aims to tracks all members of an initial sample of households over an indefinite life. Further, the sample is automatically extended over time by "following rules" that add to the sample any new children of members of the selected households well as new household members resulting from changes in the composition of the original households. The first wave of the survey was conducted in the second half of 2001.
- The Swedish Panel Study Market and Nonmarket Activities (HUS)
The HUS panel surveys were started in the early 1980s as a response to research needs related to the economic behavior of the household which could not be met by data from Statistics Sweden or other national sources. The surveys have focused on family formation, child-care, housing, market work, incomes and wealth.
- Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS)
The Indonesia Family Life Survey contains a wealth of information collected at the individual and household levels, including multiple indicators of economic well-being (consumption, income, and assets); education, migration, and labor market outcomes; marriage, fertility, and contraceptive use; health status, use of health care, and health insurance; relationships among coresident and non-coresident family members; processes underlying household decision-making; transfers among family members and inter-generational mobility; and participation in community activities.
- Korea Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS)
- Panel Study of Family Dynamics, Taiwan (PSFD)
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Historical Statistics :
- Criometric Home Page
- WWW Virtual Library for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine
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Sports Statistics :
- Statistics in Sports A Section of the American Statistical Association

- Baseball
NPB Official Stats Nippon Professional Baseball Official Stats
Baseball-Reference.com
Pitching Statistics
- Soccer
soccerbase.com (British)
Association of Football Statisticians
World Cup History Page
- Basketball
NBA.com
- Ice Skate
iskater.com Events 2000-2001
- Hockey
NHL Faceoff.com
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Cultural Statistics:
- Culture & UNESCO
- The Cornell University Prototype Digital Library
- Art Sales Index
- A Guide to Composer Data & Works Lists
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Demographic and Health Statistics :
- Macro International
- 1901 Census Online
- Health/Medical Internet Sites Links
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Software Information :
- Matlab
The MathWorks Home
- Stata
Stata Corporation
- Gauss
Aptech.com
- R
The R Project for Statistical Computing
The Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)
- Mathtools.net
The Technical Computing Portal Site
- Dynare
Dynare
- Mathematica
Wolfram Math World: The Web's Most Extensive Mathematics Resource
Wolfram Mathematica
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Software Program Library :
- Matlab
Matlab Program by Uhlig
Matlab Program by Ljungqvist-Sargent
Matlab Program by Hansen-Sargent
Matlab Program by Woodford
Quantitative Macroeconomics & Real Business Cycle
- Stata
Stata Program by Deaton
Boston College Department of Economics, Statistical Software Components
Carolina Population Center ( Stata Programming: Data Management)
Stata Tutorial
Linear Regression Models for Panel Data Using SAS, STATA, LIMDEP and SPSS
UCLA Academic Technology Services
- Gauss
Gauss Program by Cochrane
GAUSS Source Code Archive at American University
Gauss Program by Kitamura and Kobayakawa rndwalk1.e rndwalk2.e rndwalk3.e
# program used in Kitamura, Y and Kobayakawa, S.(1999) " Risk Accumulation, Contagion and the Rules for Bank Failure", in Proceedings of a Joint Central Bank Research Conference on Measurement and Systemic Risk, Bank of Japan, pp.105-143. PDF (290KB) Quantitative Macroeconomics & Real Business Cycle
- R
Contributed Packages
- StatLib
Data, Software and News from the Statistics Community
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My Statistical Collection :
- Microeconomic Data
(1) ICRISAT VLS Data on Bride-Grown Characteristics and Dowry South-Central Rural India, provided by Anil.B.Deolalikar, reprinted in G.S.Maddala,(1992) Introduction to Econometrics, 2nd ed, New Jersey: Prentio-Hall, pp.348-252 Excel File (43KB)
(2) E-Mail Study on Compensation Decisions by George A. Akerlof provides an interesting micro data on wage and salary decisions. Visit Akerlof's website: http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/akerlof/index.html
(3) Determinants of Murder Rates in the United States in G.S.Maddala(1992) Introduction to Econometrics, 2nd ed, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, pp.336-335 Excel File (22KB)
(4) Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) The PSID is a longitudinal survey of a representative sample of US individuals and the families in which they reside. It has been ongoing since 1968. The data are collected annually, and the files contain the full span of information. PSID data can be used for cross-sectional, longitudinal, and intergenerational analysis and for studying both individuals and families.
(5) Study of American Families (DPLS) The 1994 Study of American Families, conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a telephone survey of randomly selected siblings of respondents to the 1994 General Social Survey. The study is useful in examining patterns of sibling resemblance in socioeconomic outcomes.
(6) "Family Income and Expenditure Survey" All Japan All household and All Japan Workers' household on Major Expenditures and other variables Excel File (349KB)( Income Quantile DataExcel File (901KB) )
- Historical Data
(1) Seven centuries of the prices and wages in U.K. in Phelps-Brown, E.H. and Hopkins, S.V.(1955) "Seven centuries of Building Wages", Economica, August, pp.195-206, and Phelps-Brown, E.H. and Hopkins, S.V.(1956) "Seven Centuries of the Prices of Consumables, compared with Builder's wage-rates", Economica, November, pp.276-314. Excel File (75KB)
(2) Hyperinflation Episode in Hungary 1921-25 and Germany 1921-1924 in G.S.Maddala(1992) Introduction to Econometrics, 2nd ed, New Jersey : Prentice-Hall, pp.416-418 Excel File (23KB)
(3) World Population Data from Michael Kremer (1993) "Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990", Quarterly Journal of Economics., August 1993, pp.681-716, J.Bradford DeLong "Estimating World GDP, One Million B.C. -Present"( http://econ161.berkeley.edu), Takahiko Furuta (1996) Forecasting Future Population Trends, Nihon-keizai,(in Japanese) Excel File (56KB)
- Regional Data
(1) USDA The USDA Economics and Statistics System contains nearly 300 reports and datasets from the economics agencies of the US Department of Agriculture
(2) GEOSTAT The REIS database provides local area economic data for states, counties, and metropolitan areas for 1969-1997, compiled by the University of Virginia
- Statistics on Sports
- Statistics on Arts and Culture
- Political and Economic Statistics
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