ECONOMICS DATA ACCESS

S E T H M . P O R T E R M A , M L I S

Learning Outcomes

• Students will list subject specific economic databases

• Students will describe economic data access through the Georgia Tech Library

• Students will retrieve economic data sets from resources

• Students will apply skills demonstrate information retrieval for their own research.

Key Points

• Accessing Data–Databases–Government Information–University Think-Tanks

• Bloomberg Terminal– Access

Before I get started…..

What do you want to know?

Microdata introduction

• In numeric or statistical data collections, roughly speaking, there are two kinds of data resources in terms of the structure of data content and/or processing. One is aggregated data; and the other is unaggregated data, which is usually called microdata or machine-readable raw data.

• Microdata is mostly original data that contains every individual (e.g., person, company, etc.) record in the survey/research samples. Public Use Microdata Sample datafiles, mainly from U. S. Censuses and other relevant governmental surveys, so far account for the majority of microdata that have been used by researchers and other data users. The size of microdata is usually too huge to be available in print, thus computerized data storage and retrieval systems, as well as issues of file formats associated with various statistical software and operating systems, are heavily involved in working with microdata.

http://www.library.illinois.edu/doc/researchtools/guides/statistics/microdata.html

Economic Database Access

• EconLit

• NBER Working Papers

• Euromonitor

• IMF eLibrary

• OECD iLibrary

Data accesshttp://libguides.gatech.edu/c.php?g=54223&p=350240

Databases

• ICPSR–Must create a login to use.– Analyze micro data sets by topic or series• E.g., American Community Series• Longitudinal data

Databases

• Social Explorer

• Data-Planet Statistical Datasets

• Proquest Statistical Insight

• Simplymap

Pull the data

• Spend the next 10 minutes pulling a relevant data set.

• Report back

Data Access

Government Information• Census: http://

factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml

• Data Ferrett: http://dataferrett.census.gov/

• Data.govhttps://www.data.gov/

NARA: https://www.archives.gov/era/

Gov info.

• U.S. Census: http://www.census.gov/

• American Fact Finder: http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml

• Quick Facts: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/index.html

• FedStats: http://fedstats.sites.usa.gov/

• CIA World FactBook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/

• Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://bjs.gov/

• Survey of Current Business (Bureau of Economic Analysis): http://www.bea.gov/

• Catalog of US Government Publications: http://catalog.gpo.gov/F?RN=412937073

• National Center for Science & Engineering Statistics:http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/• • FDLP: http://www.fdlp.gov/

• GPO: http://www.gpo.gov/

• Data.Gov: https://www.data.gov/

• USA.Gov: http://www.usa.gov/

• White House.Gov: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/

• National Center for Health Statistics: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/

• Department of Defense: http://www.defense.gov

Gov info

• Library of Congress: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas.php• • National Security Archive: http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/• • Defense Industry information: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/• • Department of Energy Database: https://www.osti.gov/opennet/• • NASA STI: http://www.sti.nasa.gov/• • Energy Information Administration: http://www.eia.gov/• • SEC Edgar: http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml#.VBiHOWMmWf4 • • Historical Census Browser : http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu/• • Social Security: http://www.ssa.gov/• • Agriculture statistics: http://www.nass.usda.gov/• • USDA Economic Research Service ERS: http://www.ers.usda.gov/• • Education Statistics: http://nces.ed.gov/• • Bureau of Justice: http://bjs.gov/• • Bureau of Transportation: http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/node/11792• • State of the USA: http://www.stateoftheusa.org/• • Directory of Government statistical sources Vanderbilt: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/govdb/govt/stat.html• • Infomine: http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?govpub

Pull the data

• Spend the next 10 minutes pulling a relevant data set.

• Report back

University Think-Tanks

• UNC-http://www.irss.unc.edu/odum/contentPrimary.jsp?nodeid=7

• UW-Madison: http://www.disc.wisc.edu/

• IPUMS University of Minnesota: https://cps.ipums.org/cps/

• PSID University of Michigan: http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/

• Awesome Data: https://github.com/caesar0301/awesome-public-datasets

• CIESIN Colombia: http://www.ciesin.org/

Your turn!

• Take the next 5-10 minutes to pull up a relevant dataset

• Do a quick search in your research area.

• Did you find what you were looking for?

Contact Information

• Seth M. Porter, MA, MLIS

• Co-Coordinator of Library Instruction

• Social Sciences Librarian

• Georgia Institute of Technology

• seth.porter@library.gatech.edu

• 404-894-1392