Selected Resources for ECON355WR (Economic History of the South):
Emory's Electronic Data Center
General Social Science Data Resources
National/Regional Data Sources
CD-ROM/Non-Web Databases
Emory's Electronic Data Center (217 Woodruff Library)
http://einstein.library.emory.edu - The Data Center home page
http://einstein.library.emory.edu/links.shtml - The Data Freeway, a thematically-organized collection of links to on-line data sources
http://einstein.library.emory.edu/help_index.shtml - Help Pages for databases and data management
http://einstein.library.emory.edu/citation_guide.html - Guide for citation of electronic data sources
http://einstein.library.emory.edu/contact.shtml - Data Center contact information and hours
GENERAL SOCIAL SCIENCE DATA RESOURCES
Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition
http://hsus.cambridge.org/HSUSWeb/toc/hsusHome.do
The Historical Statistics of the United States Millennial Edition is a revised and updated version of the
Bicentennial Edition (C 3.134/2:H 62/970) that was published in 1975 and provided statistical information up to 1970.
The Millennial Edition has expanded
the coverage of the Bicentennial Edition to include data from the 2000 Census (and, with some topics, post-2000 data) and
to include topics that were not covered in the Bicentennial Edition (e.g. slavery, poverty, and Native American Indians).
The Millenial Edition contains extensive documentation and allows users to create tables of statistics and view them in
HTML or PDF format or save them as Excel or .CSV files. Please note that coverage for tables will vary by topic. This
resource is also available via Databases at Emory.
ICPSR (Inter-University
Consortium for Political and Social Research)
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
The ICPSR is the largest collection of Social Science Data in the world. Topics included in the archive
include: economics, government, health care, crime, education, etc. This resource is also available via
Databases at Emory. The Data Center
also maintains an archive of ready-to-use ICPSR datasets which are accessible via the search engine on the Data
Center home page.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
Electronic version of the popular resource. The Statistical Abstract contains a wealth of information on numerous
socio-economic and demographic indicators for the U.S. Earlier editions of the Abstract back to 1878 are also available as .pdf files. There is also a
CD-ROM version of the Statistical Abstract available in the Data Center, and the tables on the CD-ROM version often cover
more years of data/statistics than do the print or on-line versions.
NATIONAL/REGIONAL DATA SOURCES
Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
http://www.bea.gov/
The BEA is an excellent source for economic data at both the national and subnational (state/local) level. Note that while
the BEA has some state-level data extending back to 1929, its most detailed state- and regional-level data are for the
post-WWII period.
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
http://www.bls.gov
The BLS contains much data on employment, wages, and prices, at both the national and sub-national levels. The sub-national
(i.e. state or regional level) data that are available are for the post-war period. Be warned that the website is not always
easy to navigate.
County Business Patterns
http://www.census.gov/epcd/cbp/view/cbpview.html
The County Business Patterns contains much county-level data on employees and establishments in particular
industries. The homepage allows users to access data from recent editions of the CBP. Other datafiles are available
here. The Geostat Center at UVa also
hosts a very accessible site for CBP
datafiles with data extending back to 1977.
Historical Census Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/index.html
The Geostat Center at the University of Virgina has compiled county-level data from the U.S. Census from 1790 to
1960 (using data from
ICPSR #0003) and made that data available via a very-user friendly web brower.
IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series)
http://www.ipums.umn.edu/
The IPUMS project at the University of Minnesota has compiled samples of
microdata from the Census of Population and
Housing for 1850-2000. These microdata files are generally very large and are designed for usage with statistical software
such as SAS, SPSS, or Stata.
National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS)
http://www.nhgis.org/
The NHGIS project at the University of Minnesota provides aggregated historical Census data on population, economics and
agriculture at different levels of geography (state, county, or tract, depending on the Census year and category of
information). For those experienced with using GIS software, the NHGIS project also distributes historical boundary files
for Census tracts.
U.S. County and City Data Book (University of Virginia)
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/ccdb/
The County and City Data Book (CCDB) contains a substantial amount of data and statistics on a variety of state-level
socio-economic and demographic indicators. UVa's Geostat Center has made these data available from various issues of
the CCDB, extending back to 1944.
CD-ROM/NON-WEB DATABASES
Neighborhood Change Data Base
The Neighborhood Change Data Base contains data from the 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000 censuses and allows users
to convert data from pre-2000 censuses into 2000 census tracts to show demographic and economic changes over
time in given areas.
State Personal Income, 1929-2000
This CD was produced by the Bureau of Economic Analysis and
contains much time-series data on income and employment and transfer payments at the state level. Please note
that the data on the CD are not compatible with the data available at the BEA website.
A complete list of the Data Center's non-web databases is available here. The databases are accessible via the Data Center's public workstations.
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