International Economic Data Sources

Guide to Notation

Ease of use: J = very convenient; L = royal pain in the a__.
U = disaggregated by industry/sector.
$ = nontrivial expense involved in the machine-readable version.

National Accounts, Prices, Unemployment, Growth

J Penn World Tables Mark 5.6. http://datacentre.chass.utoronto.ca/pwt/index.html. 152 countries, 1950-1992.

J World Bank. World Development Indicators. http://www.worldbank.org/data/wdi/home.html. Most countries, 1960-1997. CD-ROM at Woodruff Library Reserve.

L International Monetary Fund. International Financial Statistics. ICPSR 7629. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/archive1.html. 180+ countries, 1948+.

$L United Nations Statistical Office. Yearbook of National Accounts Statistics. http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/epubls.htm. Most countries, 1950s+.

L International Labour Office, Year Book of Labour Statistics 1998 (Geneva,1998) http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/social/unempl.htm. Most countries, 1940+. Hard copy only?

International Finance

J World Bank. World Development Indicators. http://www.worldbank.org/data/wdi/home.html. Most countries, 1960-1997. CD-ROM at Woodruff Library Reserve.

L International Monetary Fund. International Financial Statistics. ICPSR 7629. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/archive1.html. 180+ countries, 1948+.

L International Monetary Fund. Government Finance Statistics. ICPSR 8624. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/archive1.html. 180+ countries, 1971+.

L International Monetary Fund. Balance of Payment Statistics. ICPSR 8623. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/archive1.html. 180+ countries, 1965+.

International Trade

Trade Flows:

L International Monetary Fund. Direction of Trade Statistics. ICPSR 7628. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/archive1.html. 180+ countries, 1948+.

$U Statistics Canada. World Trade Database. http://www.statcan.ca:80/english/IPS/Data/65C0001.htm. 160 countries, 1970-1996.

$L U United Nations Statistics Division. External Trade Statistics. http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/epubls.htm. Most countries, 1962+.

Trade Policies:

U Robert C. Feenstra, Robert E. Lipsey, and Harry P. Bowen. World Trade Flows, 1970-1992, with Production and Tariff Data. http://papers.nber.org/papers/W5910. Many countries, 1 or 2 years in 1990s.

L U APEC. Tariff Schedules. http://www.apectariff.org/. All APEC members, current year.

$L U UNCTAD. Trade Analysis and Information System (TRAINS). http://www.leman.com/~kuwahara/untrains.htm. 100+ countries, 1990s. Tariffs and non-tariff barriers, plus import volumes.

Industry

$U UN Industrial Commodity Statistics Yearbook. http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/industry/isy95.htm; http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd/epubls.htm. Most countries, 1958+.

$U L UNIDO Industrial Statistics Database. http://www.unido.org/doc/online.htmls. Up to 172 countries, 1963-1995.