The National Bureau of Economic Research hosts
the Penn-World tables, March CPS
files, SIPP data, and
many other useful datasets.
The IPUMS website has
public use microsamples from the US Census, the March CPS, and
international censuses with variable definitions harmonized and
standardized in a well-documented way.
The Census, BEA and other Dept of Commerce sites have quite a lot of data and
documentation.
The CENSUS has:
1. Survey of Income and Program Participation (also see the SIPP home page).
2. (CPS) Current Population Survey
3. (AHS) American Housing Survey
4. (CES) Consumer Expenditure Survey (Sponsored by the BLS).
5. (PUMS) Decennial Census Public Use Microdata Samples
The Survey of
Consumer Finances (SCF) (at the Federal Reserve Board)
oversamples the wealthy.
The National
Longitudinal Surveys and much other data are owned by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
(an agency within the U.S. Department of
Labor).
Annual demographics (March CPS) links
are online at the BLS. Confidential data are
available onsite at the BLS.
The Panel Study on
Income Dynamics (PSID) is available through the Institute for Social
Research (ISR).
The Health and Retirement
Survey (HRS) is available through the Institute for Social
Research (ISR).
The ICPSR
at the Institute for
Social Research (ISR) archives various data.
UCLA hosts a clearinghouse of
data on developing countries.
The CIESIN data gateway
offers access to (mostly) demographic and geographic data.
The IRS does
not offer much access to data, online or otherwise.
The Ernst and Young database at the OTPR (at the Business School) contains detailed
cross-sectional data from US tax returns from 1962 to 1990, and is
available for purchase (not online).
The extremely valuable database COMPUSTAT, containing detailed
firm data, is available to NBER
researchers, and by (expensive) subscription.
The commercial database CRSP, containing detailed bond and equity
series, is available to NBER
researchers, and by (expensive) subscription.
The commercial database DATASTREAM (which has detailed bond
and equity series) is available on a limited basis to Economics and
Business students at the University of
Michigan from the computer labs only.
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