Economic Indicator: United States Economic Indicators

Business Source Complete: 01/2006 to 08/2013
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A free, comprehensive index to economic research publications of the Federal Reserve. Covers 1970s-present.

Find older issues of the Survey of Current Business, Business Conditions Digest, Business Cycle Developments and more. Most sources back to first issue and available in PDF.

Annual report containing texts of the President's economic report, summarizing the Administration's economic policy, and of the Council of Economic Advisers report, reviewing in detail the progress of the economy and the Administration's proposals and programs. An extensive appendix contains many long time series of statistics.

Business Formation Statistics (BFS) are a standard data product of the U.S. Census Bureau developed in research collaboration with economists affiliated with Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, University of Maryland, and University of Notre Dame. BFS provide timely and high frequency information on new business applications and formations in the United States.

The Census Bureau produces economic data across the entire economy on a monthly, quarterly, yearly, and five-year basis.

Provides a better understanding of the U.S. economy by offering timely, relevant, and accurate economic accounts data.

The major data collecting agency of the Federal Government. Using the Census Bureau alphabetical listing will often lead you to relevant data.

Data.gov is primarily a federal open government data site. However, state, local, and tribal governments can also syndicate metadata describing their open data resources on Data.gov for greater discoverability. Data.gov does not host data directly, but rather aggregates metadata about open data resources in one centralized location. Once an open data source meets the necessary format and metadata requirements, the Data.gov team can pull directly from it as a Harvest Source, synchronizing that source’s metadata on Data.gov as often as every 24 hours

The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) gathers economic and demographic data for business and government decision-making, issues patents and trademarks, and helps to set industrial standards.

HBEA's economists produce some of the world's most closely watched statistics, including U.S. gross domestic product, better known as GDP. We do state and local numbers, too, plus foreign trade and investment stats and industry data.