B & E Datalinks (American Statistical Association's Business and Economics Statistics)
http://www.econ-datalinks.org/
A comprehensive set of links to data sites on the Web along with user-based assessments of the quality of each site.  You may search the site or browse general categories such as Macroeconomics, Finance, Labor and General Microeconomics, by clicking under Datalinks main menu on Search/View econ & financial data links

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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Counting California
http://countingcalifornia.cdlib.org/
(or click on the database from the Library home page)
Social and economic data on California compiled by the California Digital Library and the Library of California: income, poverty, cost of living, labor, employment, banking, finance and many more.

Economic Statistics Briefing Room
http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html
Quick access to Federal economic indicators, including employment, income, money, international trade, production, and other statistical information.

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.

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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/

International Monetary Fund
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/res/index.htm
The International Monetary Fund collects data on member countries.  Under World Economic and Financial Surveys, click on World Economic Outlook Databases.  On the next page, click on World Economic Outlook Database for the latest month.  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.  The resulting page will contain data that has been selected.  Once data has been selected, go to bottom of page and click on Your WEO Report.

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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.

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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.  In the search box in the top right corner, type in M2, and enter.  On next page, click on Economic Outlook No. 82—December 2007.  A table will appear with many countries listed, excluding Italy and France’s numbers.

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.

United Nations Common Database
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cdb/cdb_help/cdb_quick_start.asp
This United Nations database has many types of country statistics.  In the left column, under Metadata, click on Countries.  In the list of countries, pick a G7 country.  Then in the list of data, pick one, e.g. Money supply (M1) or Education Enrolment by Level.  On the next screen pick the years wanted, then click continue.  On the next screen select HTML under Available Output Format.  Next screen will give statistics.

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 -- Data & Statistics
http://www.worldbank.org/data/
This site has extensive economic data about the countries of the world.  Click on "Data" in the left column which takes you to a page where you can pick a country or the data needed.  Also, click on Quick Query to get data.

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

Reference Books (2nd floor)
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

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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.rh.cc.ca.us/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 5/2008

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