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Statistical Resources on the Web — Comprehensive Economics

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stecon.html
The massive award-winning mega site from the University of Michigan’s Documents Center. “The Documents Center is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international.”

United States
Bureau of Economic Analysis http://www.bea.gov/
National and regional data, including GDP, national income, fixed assets, and others.
Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov/home.htm
A wealth of labor-related statistics, notable CPI, PPI, consumer expenditures, productivity, wages, earnings & benefits, employment and unemployment.
EconStats http://www.econstats.com/nosi/no_m40.htm
This table shows new orders for consumer goods.
Economic Statistics Briefing Room http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/briefroom/BriefRm
Quick access to Federal economic indicators, including employment, income, money, international trade, production, and other statistical information.
Economic Data - FRED http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
Federal Reserve Economic Data including CPI, employment and population, balance of payment, GDP, commercial banking, trade data, interest rates, monetary aggregates, and other US financial data.
Economic Report of the President http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/index.html
This report contains historic, as well as, current economic statistics.
Federal Reserve Board http://www.federalreserve.gov/default.htm
The Federal Reserve System, which serves as the nation’s central bank, was created by an Act of Congress in 1913.

The System consists of a seven member Board of Governors with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and twelve Reserve Banks located in major cities throughout the United States.
2009 Statistical Abstract http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/business_enterprise.html
Tables 762, 764, 763 and 738 (Business Births) will answer most of the questions for the Econ 102 assignment. Table 762 has most of the economic indicators.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/income_expenditures_poverty_wealth/personal_income.html
Table 656 shows personal income.

International
Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/iet/
This page contains graphs of the economic trends of the G-7. Under money aggregates, M1 and M2 supplies are shown for some of the countries. Click on All charts for this country.
FXHistory http://www.oanda.com/convert/fxhistory
This Website give historical currency exchange rates for world currencies.
Index Mundi http://indexmundi.com/g/
International Monetary Fund http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/res/index.htm
The International Monetary Fund collects data on member countries. Under World Economic and Financial Surveys, click on World Economic Outlook Databases. On the next page, click on World Economic Outlook Database for the latest month. Under Download WEO Data, click on By Countries (country-level data). On the next page, click on Major advanced economies (G-7).

On the next page, click continue. On this page, select the subjects to be looked up and click continue. On this page, change the date to be looked up and click on Prepare Report. The resulting page will contain data that has been selected. Once data has been selected, go to bottom of page and click on Your WEO Report.

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development

http://www.oecd.org/home/0,2987,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
On this page, in the left column, under Browse, click on By Country. On the next page, click on a country from the G-7. On the next page, in the right column, under Don’t Miss, click on OECD Statistical Profile of … and a table of information will be available.

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development–OECD Main Economic Indicators

http://stats.oecd.org/mei/default.asp?rev=1
Another OECD website. Under Access the real-time database, click on Money Aggregates-Broad money. In the search box in the top right corner, type in M2, and enter. On next page, click on Economic Outlook No. 82—December 2007.

A table will appear with many countries listed, excluding Italy and France’s numbers.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics

http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/TableViewer/document.aspx?ReportId=143
UNESCO collects education statistics for over 200 countries. On the first screen, click on Profiles. On the next screen pick a country. On the next screen click on Education and the next screen gives key statistics on the country.
Wikipedia — Money Supply http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply
Wikipedia has an excellent article about money supply and gives the sources for finding M2 for the USA.
World Bank Group — Data & Statistics http://www.worldbank.org/data/
This site has extensive economic data about the countries of the world. Click on “Data” in the left column which takes you to a page where you can pick a country or the data needed. Also, click on Quick Query to get data.

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