Business & Economics Librarian
Judith Opdahl
she/her/hers
Library Databases
- Sage Data (formerly Data Planet)Sage Data (formerly known as Dataplanet has standardized data). Contains 65+ billion data points from 550+ source databases and 90+ data providers. Datasets are findable via 37 fields of metadata plus searchable indicator titles and multiple filter criteria. you can search by one of 16 major subject categories or by geography. CSUSM Library subscription is to the basic datasets.
Sage Data Statistical Dataset (help guide from Data Planet)
Additional Help guides for Sage Data
Sources of Data (PDF document)
International Sources of Data (PDF document)
Good sources for locating data
- American Economic Association's list of popular data sourcesList of sources by the following categories: US macroeconomic data, Other US data, and World and non-US data
- ICPSR"An international consortium of more than 750 academic institutions and research organizations, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields." (About: www.icpsr.umich.edu)