NBER Data Library
As part of its mission, the NBER makes available many types of data.
Some of the data comes from various government agencies, while other
data has been generated by researchers for specific projects or
papers.
Their holdings have been broken up into several categories. Their
"Macro Data" includes:
Official Business Cycle Dates
Experimental Coincident, Leading and Recession Indexes
Penn-World Tables, Mark 6.1
Barro-Lee
Occupational Wages around the World
Macro History Database
Savings, Investment, and Gold in 13 countries (1850-1945)
Bank of England Industry Dataset
Japanese FILP
Social Security Pension Reform in Europe
Social Security's Treatment of Postwar Americans
Optimal Inflation Targeting Rules
Their "Industry Data" includes:
Manufacturing Industry Productivity Database
Public Sector Collective Bargaining Law Data
Form 990 data on tax exempt organization
Their "International Trade Data" includes:
U.S. Trade by 1972-SIC category, 1958-1994
U.S. Trade by 1987-SIC category, 1989-2001
U.S. Imports by TSUSA, HS, SITC, 1972-2001
U.S. Exports by TSUSA, HS, SITC, 1972-2001
U.S. Tariffs, 1989-2001
U.S. Antidumping Database and Links
Their "Individual Data" includes:
Boston Youth Labor (Market) Survey, 1980, 1989
Collaborative Perinatal (CPP)
Consumer Expenditure Survey Extracts
Current Population Survey
Union Army Data Set
Gould Sample
Survey of Income and Program Participation
Survey of Program Dynamics
Thorndike-Hagen
Vital Statistics Births
Vital Statistics Deaths
Vital Statistics Marriage and Divorce
Worker Representation survey
Their "Hospital Data" includes:
Prospective Payment System (PPS)
Reading CMS' Healthcare Cost Report Information System (HCRIS) datasets using SAS
Their "Patent Data" includes
U.S. Patents
Their "Other Data" includes:
School District Databook (SDDB)
Tax Model File Documentation
Segregation Data
State Constitutions Project
Reading large datasets into Access or Excel
Experience with SAS Portable File Formats
Older data formerly at anonymous FTP
Links to child health dataset
Information: jroth@nber.org http://www.nber.org/data/
