Library Guides: Business and Economics: Find Data

Databases with industry, economy, and business data

BEA: Economic Accounts
The Bureau of Economic Analysis provides economic accounts for national, industry, international and regional data. These accounts are critical for monetary, fiscal, and public policy and business investment decision.

Coverage: 1929-current
FAOSTAT
This is a multilingual (English, French and Spanish) database currently containing over one million time-series records covering international statistics in areas including agricultural production, trade, land use, fertilizer and irrigation, fisheries and population. Primary Use: Searching and downloading time series data of international food and commodity information.

Coverage: 1961-current
IMF Data
IMF eLibrary Data Includes domestic and international financial data from the International Financial Statistics as well as Government Finance Statistics, Direction of Trade Statistics, Balance of Payments, African Regional Economic Outlook, and more.

The IMF is the International Monetary Fund based in Washington D.C.
SHARE
SHARE is a higher education initiative whose mission is to maximize research impact by making research widely accessible, discoverable, and reusable. SHARE is building its free and open data set by gathering, cleaning, linking, and enhancing metadata that describes research activities and outputs—from data management plans and grant proposals to preprints, presentations, journal articles, and research data.

Economagic
Over 400,00 data files related to economics.
Doing Business
The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms in 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational level.

County Business Patterns
County Business Patterns has been produced as a consistent, annual series since 1964 and ZIP Code Business Patterns since 1994. Printed reports were published annually through 2004 and at irregular intervals dating back to 1946. Printed volumes in major depository libraries are the only forms in which data are available prior to 1986.
Quarterly Services
This database from the U.S. Census provides annual survey data for the service sector.
Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, & Orders
The Manufacturers’ Shipments, Inventories, and Orders (M3) survey provides broad-based, monthly statistical data on economic conditions in the domestic manufacturing sector. The survey measures current industrial activity and provides an indication of future business trends.