List of Datasets - Data
I originally created this website for Econ 221, “Evidence-Based Macroeconomics and Finance,” a second-year PhD class I taught at UCLA, to help students find macroeconomic data. It brings together what I found to be the main sources of macroeconomic datasets over the years, but is by no means exhaustive. Many more are listed in the UCLA Rosenfeld Library’s dictionary of databases.
Datasets
Themes
Sources
WRDS - Microeconomic Data
Probably the greatest resource for macro / finance data is provided through Wharton Research Data Services. It includes for example Compustat, CRSP, BlockHolders, TRACE, ExecuComp, I/B/E/S, Markit, and many more… All these resources are available through APIs. I provide only some examples below.
Databanks
France
All Datasets
APIs - Application Programming Interfaces
- Link. html
List
| id | label |
|---|---|
 bea |
Bureau of Economic Analysis Datasets - BEA |
 compustat |
Compustat - compustat |
 crsp |
Center for Research for Security Prices - crsp |
 dbnomics |
DBnomics - The World's Economic Database - dbnomics |
 ecb |
European Central Bank - ECB |
 imf |
International Monetary Fund - IMF |
 insee |
Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques - INSEE |
 oecd |
Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development - OECD |
 wrds |
Wharton Research Data Services - WRDS |
getSDMXServiceProviders
An Application Programming Interface (API) is an interface or communication protocol between different parts of a computer program intended to simplify the implementation and maintenance of software. Nowadays, many institutionally provided database are available through APIs. Below, I introduce you to some of these APIs, but there are actually many more you can use.
We will use the rsdmx package to read in SDMX data into R statistics:
rsdmxquickstart guide. html
You can easily get a list of providers through getSDMXServiceProviders:
| agencyId | name |
|---|---|
| BIS | Bank for International Settlements |
| ECB | European Central Bank |
| ESTAT | Eurostat (Statistical office of the European Union) |
| ESTAT | Eurostat (Statistical office of the European Union) - COMEXT |
| ESTAT | Eurostat (Statistical office of the European Union) - DG COMP |
| ESTAT | Eurostat (Statistical office of the European Union) - DG GROW |
| ESTAT | Eurostat (Statistical office of the European Union) - DG EMPL |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| IMF_DATA | International Monetary Fund - Data Portal |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| UNICEF | United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund |
| CD2030 | United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund |
| UNSD | United Nations Statistics Division |
| ILO_Legacy | International Labour Organization of the United Nations |
| ILO | International Labour Organization of the United Nations |
| WBG_WITS | World Integrated Trade Solution |
| WB | World Bank |
| PDH | Pacific Data Hub DotStat |
| ABS | Australian Bureau of Statistics |
| NBB | National Bank of Belgium |
| INSEE | Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques |
| INEGI | Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (Méjico) |
| ISTAT_LEGACY | Istituto nazionale di statistica (Italia) |
| ISTAT | Istituto nazionale di statistica (Italia) |
| NOMIS | NOMIS - UK Official Labour Market Statistics |
| LSD | Statistics Lithuania |
| NCSI | Sultanate of Oman - National Center for Statistics & Information |
| BBK | Bundesbank |
| KNOEMA | KNOEMA knowledge plateform |