Open Access Data

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

Data.gov provides easy to find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets. Includes geospatial data.

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

Interactive data tables for national economic data, industry economic data, international economic data and regional economic data. Important note: Use option button to select historical data.

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

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

Links to current and historic census numbers.

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.

Offer support for finding state and city level data.

Amazon Web Services hosts a variety of public data sets that anyone can access for free.

Previously, large data sets such as the mapping of the Human Genome required hours or days to locate, download, customize, and analyze. Now, anyone can access these data sets and analyze them using Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon EMR (Hosted Hadoop) clusters. By hosting this important data where it can be quickly and easily processed with elastic computing resources, AWS hopes to enable more innovation, more quickly.