Here is a list of data sources that may be of particular interest to Economics students in Australia undertaking empirical research, particularly Economics students at the University of Melbourne.
Research Databases subscribed to by the Faculty of Business and Economics at UofM
- includes many financial and company datasets.
Eik Swee Data Page - many links to data: conflict, environment, health, demographics, political economy, etc
AUSTRALIA
Micro data
Australian Bureau of Statistics Microdata - many topics on households and individuals
HILDA - Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia - annual panel data, starting in 2001
LSAC - Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children - panel data, starting in 2004
LSIC - Longitudinal Survey of Indigenous Children - panel data, starting in 2008
LSAY - Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth - 6 panel surveys following youth from age 15 for 10 years or more
Australian Data Archive (ADA) - depository for many micro (some macro) datasets not from the ABS
Macro and time series data
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) - financial statistics
Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) - major source of data on economic outcomes in Australia
Australian Macro Database (AMD) - central repository of data mostly from the RBA and ABS
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) - finance, insurance and health industry data
Yahoo Finance - financial data, can be downloaded directly to R using package fImport
INTERNATIONAL
The World Bank - huge amount of data, many countries, micro, macro, development
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - many public use datasets
Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) - Census and other micro data from around the world
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) - lots of data from around the world
Cornell University - Internet Data Sources for Social Scientists
Macro and time series data
FRED - thousands of US and international time series
European Central Bank - Statistical Data Warehouse
Main Household Panel Surveys
PSID - Panel Study of Income Dynamics (USA)
BHPS - British Household Panel Survey
GSOEP - German Socio-Economic Panel
World Values Survey - cross-national, time series investigation of human beliefs and values
Industrial Organisation datasets - courtesy of Northwestern University
Developing country surveys:
BREAD - links to many developing country data sets
DEVECONDATA - also with links to many developing country data sets
Demographic and Health Surveys Program (USAid)
Living Standards Measurement Study (World Bank)
MLSFH - Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (UPenn)
Data sets provided by major Economics journals
- these journals require authors to provide their datasets online, which then can be used by other researchers
American Economic Review - also with several other journals within the AEA group