Economics & Decision Sciences: Data Sources

United States (primarily)

• Bureau of Economic Analysis - closely watched economic statistics from the U.S. Dept of Commerce. Also includes International Economic Accounts
• Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) - from the St. Louis Fed
• Bureau of Labor Statistics - employment, prices, inflation, workplace injuries, etc. Includes some international comparison data.
• Census Bureau Economic Statistics - data economy-wide and by business sector
• FDIC data & research
• U.S. Energy Information Administration data tools, time series, and models
• Federal Reserve System - economic research & data
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics - longest running longitudinal household survey in the world
• Social Security Administration - research, stats, and analysis
• Current Population Surveys - BLS & Census Bureau data
• Historical Statistics of the United States - pre-colonial through the present
• Historical Census Browser - state and county data back to 1790

International

• Exchange Rates & Currencies
• World Development Indicators (World Bank) - going back to 1960
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD)
• Monthly Bulletin of Statistics Online (UN) - monthly, quarterly, and annual tables
• UNdata: A World of Information - 27 statistical databases from the UN
• International Data Base - demographic indicators
• International Financial Statistics (IMF) - going back to 1945
• Global Financial Data - requires an account, but it's free
• Bank of Canada - rates & statistics
• Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) - harmonized population data, requires free registration
• Asian Development Bank - economic, financial, and social statistics

If you would like to see a site added to one of these categories, please let me know!

Multi-source Links & Directories

• RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet from the American Economic Association
• EconData - time series data from Inforum (University of MD)
• Social Science Data on the Net
• Central Bank Hub - websites for the central bank/monetary authority of each country
• Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers - a worldwide directory
• Economics of Networks

• Currency Rates, Tables, & Encyclopedia
• OANDA Currency Converter
• Economic Report of the President
• Budget of the United States Government
• Moody's Analytics - indicators, tools, analysis
• DataFerrett - a unique data analysis and extraction tool with recoding capabilities
• OECD Data Lab - data visualization tools