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This guide serves to help you find resources for both articles and data for your Econ Capstone project.

For data, the trick is to discover what existing data are the best match to the ideal data you need to test the prediction of your model. This guide provides just a sampling of links to data warehouses.

Starting Points

US Census Bureau
Statistical Abstract (Census)
The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Contains a HUGE number of series—check out the sidebar on this page!
Historical Statistics of the United States
A source for the quantitative facts of American history.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Bureau of Economics Analysis
GDP, Consumer Spending, Profits, Balance of Payments, State-level and Industry-level Data
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Labor Programs
Some BLS data are available only through the homepages of individual programs, rather than from the BLS Databases and Tables page. If you can't find what you are looking for from the BLS main page, visit this homepage of the related program.
National Center for Health Statistics
National Center for Education Statistics
National Historical GIS
The National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) provides access to summary tables and time series of population, housing, agriculture, and economic data, along with GIS-compatible mapping files, for years from 1790 through the present and for all levels of U.S. census geography, including states, counties, tracts, and blocks