A Guide to Economics Research

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) negotiate directly with foreign governments to create trade agreements, to resolve disputes, and to participate in global trade policy organizations.

The Commerce Department's mission is to help make American businesses more innovative at home and more competitive abroad.

Trade Policy and Programs (TPP), led by Deputy Assistant Secretary Bill Craft, advances U.S. trade policy objectives by opening new export opportunities for American businesses, farmers, ranchers and workers through global, regional and bilateral trade initiatives - including free trade agreements (FTAs) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Categories covered: banking, business/fiscal, consumer Price Indexes, employment & population, exchange rates, foreign exchange intervention, gross domestic product (GDP) & components, interest rates, monetary aggregates, producer price indexes (PPI), reserves & monetary base, U.S. trade & international transactions, U.S. Financial Data, regional data, international data, and business cycle peaks and troughs.

Makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. Includes visualizations for data from the World Bank, OECD, Eurostat, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and more.

Promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Allows access to and crosstabulating of over 200 datasets.

Free search engine for finance, economics and sociology data. Register for a free account to download data for use with you statistical software.

U.S. Commerce Dept. agency featuring statistics and analysis of U.S. economic conditions and trends including Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Includes data for Inflation & Prices, Employment, Unemployment, Pay & Benefits, Spending & Time Use, Productivity, Workplace Injuries, and International.

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report on the average change in time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of goods and services.

Database of the US government’s open data. Provides federal, state and local data, tools, and resources to conduct research, build apps, design data visualizations, and more.

Conducted every five years for years ending in 2 and 7, this resource provides detailed information on U.S. businesses.