Library Liaison
Lynne Kvinnesland
Contact:
lkvinnesland@colgate.edu
Case Library
Rm 315
Case Library
Rm 315
315-228-6661
Subjects: African American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Caribbean Studies, CORE, Economics, Education, Geography, History, United States, History, World, International Relations, Islamic Studies, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Studies, Native American Studies, News, Peace and Conflict Studies, Political Science, Sociology
Library Liaison
Data/Statistics Resources
- Data (World Bank)Recognizing that transparency and accountability are essential to development, the World Bank Group provides free access to its comprehensive set of data on living standards around the globe--some 2,000 indicators, including hundreds that go back 50 years. The data is available in Arabic, French, and Spanish in addition to English.
- American Economic Association Resources for Economists: DataLinks to Web sites and descrptions of contents. Includes data sources produced by governments, international organizations, and private publishers.
- Census Bureau Economic ProgramsFrom the United States Bureau of the Census
- Economic Data : FRED / Federal Reserve Bank of St. LouisIncludes Statistical Releases and Historical Data, Surveys and Reports, the Federal Reserve Bulletin, and the Statistical Supplement to the Federal Reserve Bulletin.
- UN Comtrade1962+ . UN COMTRADE is the pseudonym for United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database. Over 140 reporter countries provide the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) with their annual international trade statistics data detailed by commodities and partner countries.
- World Trade Organization Documents and ResourcesThis site provides access to the official documents of the WTO's councils and committees as well as to a range of other resources, such as trade statistics, economic research, WTO publications, videos, audio and photos. Here you can also find the “legal texts” — the body of WTO agreements that collectively form the legal framework of the WTO.
- World Trade Organization International Trade StatisticsThis site contains international trade statistics compiled and analyzed by WTO economists and statisticians. Data can be displayed as MS Excel tables or charts.
- UNdataUNdata is the United Nations Data Access System which provides access to current, relevant and reliable statistics. Some data goes back 60 years. The domains covered are agriculture, education, energy, industry, labour, national accounts, population and tourism. You can also find indicators such as Millennium Development Goals. UNdata also has links to a very large number of national data and statistics organizations and agencies.
Data/Statistics Databases
- OECD iLibrary Statistics This link opens in a new windowThe Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has a very large economic dataset for its 34 members (generally upper- and middle-income countries) and some economic data on non-OECD countries.
- OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1998–present. Contains books, articles, and statistics on international economics. In addition to the data, it contains analysis. Users can browse by theme or country. One can perform searches across all the content or restrict searches to specific content (e.g., just statistical data). The resource also provides a number of tools to allow users to reformat the data and create charts.
- IMF eLibrary Data (International Financial Statistics only) This link opens in a new windowCoverage: 1900–present. Provides time series data for balance of payments, banking, exchange rates, interest rates, employment, and other economic concepts. (Note: There are multiple libraries of data at the IMF eLibrary site. Colgate only subscribes to the International Financial Statistics. We do not subscribe to the other data libraries.)
