Questions tagged [data-request]
Requests for (references/links to) data that address a specific question or need.
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Are there any measures of U-6 Unemployment that take into account ageing out of the work force explicitly?
Labor Force Participation has been steadily decreasing over the last 20 years or so. The Fed says that this has been the case mostly due to the demographic shifts, and to an extent the data backs that ...
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CPI dataset from BLS
I hope this question is not inconvenient for any of you, so I would appreciate if you do not mark it as not useful.
I want to work with the data of the CPI from the BLS (I am not American, and this is ...
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How were unit labor costs estimated by Gali and Gertler (1999)?
I am trying to estimate a NKPC like the one
Gali & Gerter, 1999 and Gali &Gerter, 2001 estimated. I am having trouble with understangind how they calculated the marginal cost, i.e., which time ...
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Free Sources of Implied Repo Rate Data?
Are there freely available historical data on implied repo rates?
In quick review, what's an implied repo rate?
In futures markets, the implied repo rate (also commonly called the IRR) is the rate of ...
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Where to find information to establish causation between economic policies and economic data?
I've merely taken a few economic courses in college -not an economics major-, so my knowledge regarding the field is limited. Lately I've been interested in learning about the economic impact of ...
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The decline in the number of domestic servants
does it mean that the market mechanism does not work—that the offer
of the going rate of wages does not secure a servant because servants
do not move to the highest bidder? This complaint—which would
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What are the household holdings of financial products in China?
What are the household holdings of financial products in China?
It seems to be generally accepted that real estate is the most popular savings product for households in China and perhaps it is also ...
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Datasets with pre- and post migration earnings
I am interested in computing the pre- and post-migration earnings of international migrants, especially those migrating from low income to high income countries (or vice versa).
The data should allow ...
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What is an estimate of the value of the world's assets?
Gross world product is on the order of 80E12 $ per year (PPP). Where can I find an estimate of the net value of the world's assets (companies, properties, infrastructure...)? Preferably with some more ...
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Deflate level and flow variables using PPI and CPI
What do statements like
Flow variables (such as dividend growth and returns) are deflated using the CPI index.
or
Level variables are deflated using the Producer Price Index (PPI).
mean?
What are ...
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How many cars are made in China by Chinese brands?
From the 25+ million cars made annually in China, many of them are German, American or Japanese brands.
How many of the cars made inside China are actually Chinese brands?
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How many cars do Chinese brands produce outside China?
Some Chinese car manufacturers have factories outside China. For example FAW produces trucks in South Africa. How many cars do Chinese brands manufacture in factories outside China? Say for example in ...
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How can I obtain monthly unemployment by ethnicity by state for the US?
Grateful for any help, thoughts and direction.
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Per Capita Income data of states in the USA
Where can I get Per Capita Income data of states in the USA? Also which are the sources often used in econometric or macroeconomic analysis and how reliable are they?
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Dataset on university enrollment?
I'm looking for a dataset with stats on tertiary education enrollment in the US, per state, at least a couple decades back. I've searched but cannot seem to find anything. Could someone help me out?
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Census Population per County Data
Looking for the simple time series of the Census data, population per county thru the years available.
Thank you much for anyone who has this data, or can link to the right source
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What does the seasonal adjustment curve for major macroeconomic metrics look like?
All the explanations of seasonal adjustment that I found from a quick search either don't give any quantitative examples, or give an example with a time series that is either made up or represents an ...
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UK historic consumer energy (electricity and gas) price data
Where can I find historic data for UK (domestic consumer) electricity and gas energy energy prices ?
I am looking for long term data - ideally for the last 100 years.
The best I have found so far ...
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Cagan Model of Hyper Inflation: Zimbabwe Data Request
Cagan Model of Hyperinflation
Could anyone guide me where I could find the data for Zimbabwe that would allow me to estimate the Beta parameters. Also, what regression method would be most suitable (...
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Typical Farming Economics Resource
Are there any resources available that provide typical books or accounts for the farming or indeed other industries?
Something that would list, employee numbers, wage bills, expenditure income (sales ...
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Which one of these sources best represents fiscal deficit data?
I'm currently recollecting data for an econometrics model I want to build later on with a panel data model.
However, sometimes it is difficult to find certain information.
For example, I want to ...
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Is there a reference that plots different countries' debt-to-GDP ratios over (long) times?
This old blog post has an interesting plot that demonstrates that the U.K.'s current debt-to-GDP ratio is significantly below its very-long-term (180-year) average.
Is there a plot anywhere that ...
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Best reports / data sources on economics flows / trade between US & China?
curious for any suggestions on reports or data sources on trade and flows between the US and China?
In addition, the impact that the current political frictions could potentially have moving forward ...
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How do I find monthly domestic interest rates for Panama for the early nineties?
I am looking for monthly domestic interest rates for Panama from before December 1996. Any type of interest rate will suffice - deposit rate, money market rate, saving rate, lending rate. The time ...
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List of stock and bond indexes for countries
I am doing some master`s degree research and looking for the list of stock/bond indexes for developed and developing countries. So the excel-file I should gather in the end will look like this:
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Business climate data collection experiments
Hernando de Soto in his book "The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else" describes a series of experiments in different countries, illustrating ...
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What is the average percent of value an employee makes which he gets on salary (called)?
I'm looking for any statistics showing the average percent of money employees get from the monetary value they create, primarily from the US or EU. Is there a term for this ratio?
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Where to find the latest statistics of brain drain in the world?
Where to find the latest statistics of brain drain in the world?
I would appreciate your suggestions.
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Statistical distribution of firms by revenue in competitive market
I would like to produce a simple distribution of competitive market firms based on their revenues. I know the number of firms in the market n, the total market ...
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Comparable data on second-hand market?
I see neither the WB nor the OECD collect data on second hand markets. However, estimates for fashion, for example, suggests this are quite significant (US here: https://luxiders.com/second-hand-...
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Data for producer prices for products
I am working with some data that express the environmental byproducts for the manufacturing of specific broad product categories (e.g. milk, soap, leather). The statistics are given per dollar of ...
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Data for currency crises
Dear StackExchange users,
I am currently studying currency crises and for that I need data from 1980-2018. I have used data from IMF, OECD, BIS, WORLD BANK, etc., but I still have some missing data ...
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Difference between unemployment rate between ILO and bureau of labor statistics
Why there are differences between the unemployment rate of the US between the data of the bureau of labor statistics and the ILO (international labor organization). Have they different definitions of ...
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Data for income distributions
Knowing the average income per capita or the median income is a rather poor economical indicator of a country, even when given in PPP\$. Knowing the (dimension-less) Gini index is somehow better, but ...
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Good source for marginal propensity to consume by country?
Is there a good data source that aggregates the MPCs of various countries?
Thanks.
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Comparative data on agricultural subsidies
Where can I find data on the agricultural subsidies of each country, ideally in a comparable fashion? I've googled without success. I hope there are some experts on this forum that can direct me to ...
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The world's largest companies
There are several criteria (or key figures) to list the world's "largest" companies, giving quite different lists:
revenue (in \$)
profit (in \$)
assets (in \$)
market capitalization (in \$)
number ...
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Data for CGE experiments?
Does anyone know of any open-source U.S. data sets in a format appropriate to whole-economy CGE econometric modeling, i.e. data sets covering the entire economy, divided into at least 20 sectors, with ...
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Data of Inflation and unemployment for a Panel Data
I am looking for data of Inflation and unemployment to run a Panel Data of a Philips Curve.
Can anybody help me with some website/source that I can find data like these?
In my mind I would need too ...
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Sources for macro economic forecast data
I need data for these long run(atleast 10year forward) macroeconomic parameters from 2000, meaning I need forecasted data as in 2000 for 2010 so I can backtest my model with actual realised data:
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How can I obtain State level Investment in the US?
How can I obtain investment level data by state in the US?
I want to analyse how Public investment vs Private Investment responded to TFP shocks on a state level, so I am looking for Gross Private ...
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Physical goods in a typical household
Estimating how much of physical goods a somehow typical person or household owns today (say in the Western world, compared to former times) is not so easy I guess, but there is one single number that ...
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Costs of transportation
I assume that it makes sense to ask for the energy costs of transportation of different goods per weight and volumetric mass density, depending on the means of transportation (truck, train, ship, etc.)...
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Where can I find a complete list of goods affected by NAFTA?
I am looking for the list of goods that NAFTA, preferably in the format of what is subject to tariff reduction.
I have found a few potential leads, but none seem to be exhaustive:
https://www....
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Data Set for Mankiw, Romer, and Weil 1992
I am trying to replicate the results of Mankiw, Romer and Weil 1992, and cannot seem to find the original data.
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What do they mean by “bottom line” and why did US IRS turned back 810 millions to IBM? and what do they mean by “unspecified “ layoffs?
In the quarter ended in March, IBM’s revenues rose by 5.1 percent to \$19.1 billion, and its gross profits were up by 6.1 percent to \$8.25 billion. There were a whole bunch of things that affected ...
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US Student debt volume and default rate data source
I would like to see data for private and public student loans and their default rate over time
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Existing metric for personal productivity hours needed per life hour?
With about 50 hours of productivity a week, including work, cooking, etc. I can complete the tasks and pay the expenses necessary to live about a week. Subtract maybe 5 hours of labor that goes into ...
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World Inequality Database: Top 10% Income Share U.S. vs. Top 10% Average Income
I want to use the U.S. data from the World Inequality Database for a VAR analysis. However, I am confused as to why the series for the top 10% income share only runs back to 1962, while the series for ...
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Data source for the relative frequency of different kinds of expiration date by retailers? (use by, sell by, best by)
I'm not sure if this is the correct Stackexchange site for this question, but I am interested in the economic and environmental effects of food waste reduction. A common policy proposal to reduce food ...
