Statistical Resources on the Web -- Comprehensive Economics
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stecon.html
The massive award-winning mega site from the University of Michigan's Documents Center.  "The Documents Center is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international."

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Economic Data - FRED
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/
Federal Reserve Economic Data including CPI, employment and population, balance of payment, GDP, commercial banking, trade data, interest rates, monetary aggregates, and other US financial data.

Economic Report of the President
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/index.html
This report contains historic, as well as, current economic statistics.

Federal Reserve Board
http://www.federalreserve.gov/default.htm
The Federal Reserve System, which serves as the nation's central bank, was created by an Act of Congress in 1913.  The System consists of a seven member Board of Governors with headquarters in Washington, D.C., and twelve Reserve Banks located in major cities throughout the United States.

2010 Statistical Abstract
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/business_enterprise.html
Tables 762, 764, 763 and 738 (Business Births) will answer most of the questions for the Econ 102 assignment.  Table 762 has most of the economic indicators.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/income_expenditures_poverty_wealth/personal_income.html
Table 656 shows personal income.

U.S. Census Economic Indicators
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/briefroom/BriefRm
Quick access to Federal economic indicators, including employment, income, money, international trade, production, and other statistical information.

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Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/iet/
This page contains graphs of the economic trends of the G-7.  Under money aggregates, M1 and M2 supplies are shown for some of the countries.  Click on All charts for this country.

FXHistory
http://www.oanda.com/convert/fxhistory
This Website give historical currency exchange rates for world currencies.

Human Development Reports
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/
The United Nations compiled statistics for the Human Development Report.
To get data by country, indicator or table, go to http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/data/

Index Mundi
http://indexmundi.com/g/
Website with country statistics.  Create graphs for economic statistics.

International Monetary Fund
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2009/02/index.htm
The International Monetary Fund collects data on member countries.  Click on World Economic Outlook Database.  Under Download WEO Data, click on By Countries (country-level data).  On the next page, click on Major advanced economies (G-7).  On the next page, click continue.  On this page, select the subjects to be looked up and click continue.  On this page, change the date to be looked up and click on Prepare Report. 

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
http://www.oecd.org/home/0,2987,en_2649_201185_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
On this page, in the left column, under Browse, click on By Country.  On the next page, click on a country from the G-7.  On the next page, in the right column, under Don't Miss, click on OECD Statistical Profile of ... and a table of information will be available.

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development--OECD Main Economic Indicators
http://stats.oecd.org/mei/default.asp?rev=1
Another OECD website.  Under Access the real-time database, click on Money Aggregates-Broad money.  Change country in drop box.

UNESCO Institute for Statistics
http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/TableViewer/document.aspx?ReportId=143
UNESCO collects education statistics for over 200 countries.  On the first screen, click on Profiles.  On the next screen pick a country.  On the next screen click on Education and the next screen gives key statistics on the country.

Wikipedia -- Money Supply
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply
Wikipedia has an excellent article about money supply and gives the sources for finding M2 for the USA.

World Bank Group -- Quick Query
http://ddp-ext.worldbank.org/ext/DDPQQ/member.do?method=getMembers&userid=1&queryId=135
This site has extensive economic data about the countries of the world. 

Books     top
The following books can be located in the Rio Hondo College Library.

Reference Books
Non-circulating:

Statistical abstract of the United States  (annual)
Call number: Ref HA202.A386 

California statistical abstract  (annual)
Call number: Ref HA261.C3

Economic report of the President transmitted to the Congress  (annual)
Call number: Ref HC106.5A272  

Budget of the United States government  (annual)
Call number: Ref HJ2051.A59

Library Catalog     top
Use the box below to search for additional resources in Rio Hondo College Library.

Articles   top
The Rio Hondo College Library provides online access to full-text articles through our online databases.  Please note:  you must be a Rio Hondo College student, faculty, staff or board member to use these services.

The sample searches and articles below are from the ProQuest database.  If you are viewing this subject guide from an on-campus computer, simply click on the links below.   To gain access if you are at home or off-campus, first click here: https://rioweb.riohondo.edu/library/.  Input your student ID number and password [your birthdate].  You will see a list of all the online databases to which you have access.  Click on ProQuest and enter the database.  You may conduct your own searches at this point or come back to this subject guide and click on any of the links below:

SUB(economic statistics) AND GEO(United States)
SUB(econometrics) AND GEO(United States)

Researched and evaluated by:
D. Yashar & J. Sevilla-Marzona, Librarians 8/2002
last update: D. Yashar, Librarian 5/2010

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