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Data for economics, finance and public policy. Browse by topic, or use search and filters to narrow the collection.

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Macroeconomics7 sourcesNational accounts, inflation, employment and economic indicators.

Comparable economic, social and policy indicators across countries.

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Public data explorer and downloads. Country coverage differs by dataset; check methods, revisions and applicable terms.

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Macroeconomics · Trade & development · Population & labour
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Canadian economic, labour, population and census data for national and regional research.

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Public tables and many data products are free. Detailed microdata, custom services and restricted access have separate conditions.

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Macroeconomics · Population & labour · Cities & mobility
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Daily US government cash balances, receipts and outlays in the Daily Treasury Statement.

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Public Fiscal Data tables. Check the table’s reporting basis and the period covered by each release.

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Finance & markets10 sourcesBanking, markets, corporate filings and investment research.

Research factors and portfolio returns for studying asset pricing and investment strategies.

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Downloadable research data; attribution and the provider’s dataset terms apply.

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Finance & markets
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Company subsidiary relationships extracted from SEC filings for ownership and corporate-network research.

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The original API uses unencrypted HTTP. Use public read-only queries only. Filing coverage and parsing quality vary; a blanket reuse licence has not been confirmed.

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Finance & markets · Policy & institutions
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Employee-benefit plan filings for pensions, insurance and institutional-finance research.

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Public filing datasets. Check plan identifiers, amended filings and reporting-year definitions.

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Finance & markets · Population & labour
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Electronic nonprofit tax filings for studying charitable organizations and their finances.

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Public electronic filings cover participating organizations and years. Dataset reuse terms and filing revisions still apply.

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Finance & markets · Policy & institutions
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Offshore entities and ownership connections drawn from ICIJ investigations.

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Public search and downloads have provider-specific terms. Inclusion does not establish illegality; verify entity matches and context.

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Trade & development1 sourceCross-country indicators, trade and economic development.

Development indicators, country comparisons and survey catalogs for applied economic research.

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Open indicators are available directly. Microdata and third-party collections can have separate registration and reuse conditions.

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Trade & development · Macroeconomics · Population & labour
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Population & labour4 sourcesCensus, income, labour and household microdata.

Harmonized US census and American Community Survey microdata for population, labour and household research.

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Free registration and dataset-use conditions apply. Selected full-count and restricted data have additional access requirements.

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Population & labour · Health & healthcare
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Population, household, business and regional statistics from US censuses and surveys.

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Public aggregate tables. Some detailed microdata require separate approval; sampling errors and geographic definitions matter.

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Policy & institutions6 sourcesGovernment, courts, political activity and public spending.

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Cities & mobility25 sourcesLocal open-data portals, urban services and transport.

Public local datasets from Austin, TX for exploring city services, communities and urban policy.

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Public municipal data. Coverage, update schedules and reuse terms vary by dataset.

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Cities & mobility
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Public local datasets from Boston, MA for exploring city services, communities and urban policy.

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Public municipal data. Coverage, update schedules and reuse terms vary by dataset.

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Cities & mobility
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Public local datasets from Dallas, TX for exploring city services, communities and urban policy.

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Public municipal data. Coverage, update schedules and reuse terms vary by dataset.

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Cities & mobility
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Public local datasets from Denver, CO for exploring city services, communities and urban policy.

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Public municipal data. Coverage, update schedules and reuse terms vary by dataset.

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Cities & mobility
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Economic and demographic indicators for El Paso and its surrounding region.

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Public economic-development dashboard. It is a current alternative and may not contain the complete older municipal archive.

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Cities & mobility
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Public local datasets from Portland, OR for exploring city services, communities and urban policy.

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Current city data directory. Coverage is not guaranteed to match the older CivicApps regional archive.

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Cities & mobility
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Housing & real estate2 sourcesHouse prices, rents and housing market indicators.

Zillow (opens in a new tab)

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Housing-price, rent and market indicators for US real-estate research.

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Public research series have specific use terms and methodology. Revisions and geographic availability vary by series.

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Housing & real estate · Finance & markets
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Health & healthcare7 sourcesHealthcare spending, providers, health surveys and outcomes.

Healthcare spending, providers, quality measures and public Medicare and Medicaid data.

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Public-use products are available; identifiable or restricted patient data have separate approval and fee conditions.

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Health & healthcare · Policy & institutions
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Climate & geography4 sourcesEnvironmental conditions, hazards, settlements and infrastructure.

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Technology & innovation4 sourcesPatents, networks, digital platforms and connected devices.

Research on smart-home device traffic, with a public redacted subset and a separate controlled corpus.

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The redacted research subset is public. Full-corpus access requires project contact and approval; current fulfillment is unconfirmed. Capture software does not grant corpus access.

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Technology & innovation
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Patent, inventor and assignee records for studying innovation and knowledge networks.

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Use USPTO’s current PatentsView guidance to find data releases. Portal and API account requirements can vary.

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Technology & innovation
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Stanford SNAP (opens in a new tab)

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Network datasets for social, communication and graph-analysis research.

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Dataset-specific licences and attribution apply. Current endpoint availability needs confirmation; the original HTTP address is retained.

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Technology & innovation
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Data catalogs6 sourcesSearchable collections spanning multiple research fields.

Catalog of US government datasets across agencies and research topics.

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Catalog access is public. Follow the original publisher for downloads, licences and any access requirements.

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Data catalogs · Policy & institutions
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UK government and public-sector datasets across national and local topics.

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Catalog access is public. Dataset-specific licences and access requirements apply at the publisher.

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Data catalogs · Policy & institutions
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Community-contributed datasets for exploratory analysis and applied data science.

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Account requirements and licences vary. Check the original data source, documentation and collection methods.

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Data catalogs · Technology & innovation
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