Guides @ UF: AEB 3550 Data Analysis: Data and Statistics

IMPORTANT: Connecting from Off-Campus

To access databases and online journals from off-campus, you must first log into the proxy server or the Virtual Private Network (VPN). The VPN is recommended as it provides the smoothest access.

Data Sources: Project Starters

The Dataverse Project
An open source web application to share, preserve, cite, explore and analyze research data from multiple sources. A collaboration with Harvard Library, Harvard University IT, and IQSS.
Population Reference Bureau (PRB)
Provides information about populations worldwide with data sheets, a graphics bank, and more. The "core themes" are: Reproductive Health and Fertility; Children and Families; Population and the Environment; and Population Futures—Aging, Inequality and Poverty, Migration and Urbanization, and Gender.
OECD iLIbrary
The online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Available through UF Libraries. Books, journals, working papers, and more are available on topics such as the general economy, statistics, and agriculture.

Data Sources: Florida

EDR Population & Demographics
From the Office of Economic and Demographic Research of the Florida Legislature. Includes population overviews, census data, and poverty guidelines.
Florida Statistical Abstract
NOW ONLINE! Created by the Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR) at UF. Find data on Florida and its cities and counties in the areas of population, housing, employment, income, education, health, tourism, elections, and more. Data is available from 1967-present.
Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR)
BEBR collects, analyzes and generates economic and demographic data on Florida and its local areas. Find free online reports from 1979-present on Florida-related topics (ex. price level index, migration flows, disability perceptions, etc.)

Internet Resources

Florida Climate Center / State Climatologist
UF Physics Department Weather Station Current weather conditions.
Climate Data Management System The Climate Data Management System is an object-oriented data management system, specialized for organizing multidimensional, gridded data used in climate analysis and simulation.
IFAS Florida Automated Weather Network (FAWN) is a real time agricultural weather service with sixteen stations throughout Florida. It also includes historical data from January 1999.
Southeast Regional Climate Center
National Climatic Data Center, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. This site includes Online Climate Data with current and historical surface data, upper air data, and marine data. This includes a variety of parameters, as well as historical data (some going back to 1800).
WorldClimate has historic weather averages (typical temperature and rainfall for each month averaged over a range of years) and is searchable by city.
Global Hydrology and Climate Center
Global Change Master Directory
Historic/Indigenous Australian Weather

Databases: Statistics & Data

Facts, figures, and raw data.

Historical Statistics of the United States
ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research
UF is a member institution and provides access to a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences.
International Data Base (IDB)
Created by the US Census Bureau, the IDB includes country rankings, global population information, and tabular data for countries and regions as well as demographic indicators, population pyramids and source information for countries.
Lexis-Nexis: Statistical
Searches literature for statistical information
Policy Agendas Project
Links to datasets on the federal budget, Congressional hearings, executive orders, U.S. Public Laws, and the Congressional Quarterly Almanac.
Polling the Nations
A survey database with a compilation of over 14,000 surveys from more than 100 polling organizations dating back as far as 1986.
Roper Center Public Opinion Archives
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world's leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from surveys of public opinion. The data held by the Roper Center range from the 1930s, when survey research was in its infancy, to the present. Most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented.

Data Sources: Websites

Here are some helpful sources for statistical agricultural economics information.

Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
Data.gov US government's open data

Ask IFAS This link opens in a new window
Ask IFAS, formerly known as EDIS, is the Electronic Data Information Source of UF/IFAS Extension. It is a comprehensive, single-source repository of research-based, timely information about agriculture, natural resources, family & consumer sciences and youth development.
FAOSTAT Statistics Database This link opens in a new window
FAOSTAT provides free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all Food & Agriculture Organization regional groupings.

FRED:Economic data
Library of Economics & Liberty
N.A.S.S.
Resource for Economists on the Internet (RFE)
American Economic Association sponsored resource guide.
U.S. Bureau of Economics Analysis
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. Census of Agriculture
USDA Data and Statistics

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