United States Statistics

St Louis Fed Financial and Economic Time-Series Database with interest rates, GDP, exchange rates, employment, balance of payments, etc.

Find archival versions of economic time series data.

Map economic data such as employment, unemployment, housing vacancy and health insurance coverage at the state, county and metropolitan statistical areas.

Since 1914, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System has published statistical information on the U.S. economy and banking industry. FRASER has over 30,000 of these releases from 80 titles, dating 1916-201. Earlier data from the Economic Report of the President back to 1945 in PDF format. Compliment to ALFRED and FRED.

Collection of data on income, labor force, general demographic characteristics. Purpose is evaluate existing federal, state, and local programs to estimate future costs and coverage.

Frequently used U.S. Longitudinal Study beginning in 1968 focusing on changing economic and demographic behavior. Also includes sociological and psychological measures.

Key economic indicators and labor trends including: Consumer Price Index, Current Population Survey (employment, unemployment, earnings), Employment Cost Trends, Local Area Unemployment and Producer Price Index.

Joint Economic Committee, by the Council of Economic Advisers. 1998-present. (CEA/JEC)

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70+ agencies in the United States Federal Government produce public statistics. Annual historical statistical tables of government data from 1995 for national income or expenditure, population, employment, wages, and productivity, production and business activity. Spreadsheet format option. Link to FRASER with data back to first report 1947.

Regional economic statistics including GDP by state, state and local area personal income back to 1969. Some data back to 1929.

Summary data on population, health, education, labor, income, expenditures, wealth, prices, banking, finance, and insurance, domestic trade and comparative international statistics 1995 to present.

Links to a broad range of statistics including demographics, business and international data. Selection by topic.

The House Ways and Means Committee Green Book provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty and taxation. It has become a standard reference work for those interested in the direction of social policy in the United States. 1996, 1998, 2000, 2004. See Appendix pdf files for data tables.