Posts Tagged ‘data’

Worldbank data

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

The World Bank decided to open up and set its data free!

I have started importing some 167,000 series. This is mostly agricultural data. More coming soon. We now house more than 400,000 series in the site.

You can sample the series by looking at just one country.

linksLinks:

Search for data about Switzerland (rich interface)

Search for data about Switzerland (HTML interface)

amznBooks:

World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change

seriesSeries of interest:

Number of tractors in Switzerland

Arable land in Switzerland (hectares per person)

Leverage ratios in the US, Singapore and Japan

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Housing starts hit a 7-month high

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Those greenshoots. Sure, it’s not as bad as it was, but still a long way to go to even reach the low levels of previous bottoms, in absolute terms!

linksLinks:

FT.com article

seriesSeries of interest:

Housing starts for single family homes

Housing starts for 2-4 family homes

Housing starts for single and 2-4 family homes

Housing starts (total), per capita, annual

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Even more Bureau of Labor Statistics

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Another 17000 time series added from BLS. We now have:

  • International labor statistics (IN)
  • International price index (EI)
  • Employment cost index (EC)
  • Employment costs for employee compensation (CM)
  • Employment benefits survey (EB)
  • Employment, hours, and earnings – national (CE)

linksLinks:

CPI data from the BLS

amznBooks:

Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History

seriesSeries of interest:

France unemployment rate

French unit labor cost

French labor participation

Employees with medical care (%)

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