Data Sources

by Mark thoma

New Economist presents a nice collection of data, papers, and other useful resources here, so I thought I'd pass these along. These are from Crooked Timber:

Data sources, by Eszter, Crooked Timber:  Behind the hustle and bustle of the book exhibit at the recent annual meetings of the American Sociological Association was an exhibit of various data sources. ... It seems to me that this is an underappreciated part of the meetings and could be especially helpful for graduate students. Of course, it should hold value to many others as well. ... Below the fold I list some of the resources I saw.

• Wisconsin Longitudinal Study – “[..] a long-term study of a random sample of 10,317 men and women who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957.” In the interest of full disclosure, I have a pilot grant from this project and have been working with the data set for the past few months. It’s an amazing resource. I should post about it in more detail one of these days.
• Social Explorer – “Social Explorer is dedicated to providing demographic information in an easily understood format: data maps.” – This resource in particular may be especially helpful for teaching purposes.
• WebCASPAR – “[..] provides easy access to a large body of statistical data resources for science and engineering (S&E) at U.S. academic institutions. WebCASPAR emphasizes S&E, but its data resources also provide information on non-S&E fields and higher education in general.”
• National Science Board Science and Engineering Indicators 2006 – “[..] a volume of record comprising the major high quality quantitative data on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise.”
• Archival Research Catalog – “The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA’s [NARA = National Archives and Records Administration] nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries.” The ARC Guide for Educators and Students is a good place to start.
• The American Time Use Survey – “measures the amount of time people spend doing various activities, such as paid work, childcare, volunteering, commuting, and socializing.”

Comments

[Pelkabo]

Since "happiness" is one of your topics of interest, you may be interested in a small study I did using some data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study you reference in this post, see http://pelkabo.wordpress.com/2006/08/20/are-smart-people-happy-people/

[Richad]

So Nice Information for New economists , but still it lags some or other thing. I think business is not only dealing with economy.

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