Micro Socio-economic Data Sets
Amadeus – European Company Data (Bureau van Dijk)
Financial and business data on 250,000 companies in 38 European countries – east and west – including standardised annual accounts, financial ratios, sectoral activities and ownership. [Full details ]
Consumer Expenditure Survey (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Data on household expenditure on goods and services, based on interview and diary surveys by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor. [Full details ]
Current Population Survey (U.S. Bureau of Census)
U.S. labour force data comprising a monthly survey of approximately 50,000 households conducted by the Bureau of Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. [Full details ]
Datastream (Thomson Reuters)
Datastream is a financial and macroeconomic database, covering major instruments, company fundamentals, equities, fixed income securities and economic indicators for 177 countries and 60 markets worldwide. [Full details ]
DNB Household Survey (Netherlands)
Produced annually by the CentER Survey Research Institute at Tilburg University since 1993, DNB provides financial data in a panel of over 2,000 Dutch households. [Full details ]
DReMM / MIREM – Database on Return Migrants to the Maghreb (EUI)
EUI database on the reintegration of approx. 1,000 return Maghrebi migrants and their post-return conditions in countries of origin. [Full details ]
ECRI – Lending to Households in Europe
The European Credit Research Institute's Lending to Households in Europe database covers lending to households; consumer credit, housing and other loans in 38 countries. [Full details ]
EUDO data – European Union Democracy Observatory (EUI)
Data generated by four EUDO observatories on public opinion, political elites and the media; political parties and representation; institutional change and reform, and citizenship.
EU-LFS – European Union Labour Force Survey (Eurostat)
Household sample survey conducted across the EU and three countries of EFTA, providing quarterly results on labour participation and on persons outside the labour force. Data ranges from 1983, depending on member state accession and other availablity factors. Individual surveys are conducted by national statistical agencies across Europe, and are centrally collated by Eurostat. [Full details ]
EU-SILC – European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (Eurostat)
Cross-sectional and longitudinal multidimensional micro data set on income, poverty, social exclusion and living conditions in the European Union. [Full details ]
EUROMOD (ISER, University of Essex and Eurostat)
EUROMOD is a tax and benefits' microsimulation model for the European Union, developed by the University of Essex Institute for Social & Economic Research, and using underlying EU-SILC data from the EU member states, compiled by Eurostat. The EUROMOD simulator facilitates research and comparable policy analysis of the effects of taxes and benefits on household incomes and work incentives, both for member states and the EU as a whole. [Full details ]
Eurobarometer Surveys (European Commission)
Cross-national and cross-temporal European surveys providing regular monitoring of social, economic and political attitudes in European Union member states. [Full details ]
European Social Survey
Data on the interaction between Europe's changing institutions and the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of its diverse populations. [Full details ]
European Values Study (ZA, Köln)
Cross-national and longitudinal survey of basic attitudes, beliefs and human values of Europeans, issued by the Central Archive for Empirical Social Research (ZA) at the University of Cologne, and by Tilburg University. [Full details ]
German Employment Data
Time series data from the Bundesagentur für Arbeit (Nürnberg) for total and foreign German employment, by industrial sector, federal region and nationality. [Full details ]
GSOEP (DIW Berlin)
Longitudinal socio-economic panel survey of private households in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1984 (eastern German lander since 1990), issued by the Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin. [Full details ]
High Frequency Data in Finance (Olsen)
High frequency (5 min.) financial data from Olsen & Associates (Zurich). FX quotes for EUR vs. USD, JPY & GBP (1999-2004) and DEM vs. USD, JPY & GBP (1994-1999). [Full details ]
ICPSR Data Archive (University of Michigan)
The ICPSR data archive at the University of Michigan provides access, via EUI Administrators, to 6,000 social, economic, political and demographic data sets, comprising over 100,000 files. [Full details ]
ISTAT: Consumption by Families (Italy)
Data on Italian family consumption patterns – 'Indagine sui consumi delle famiglie' – compiled by the Italian national statistical office (ISTAT), providing details of household budgets and consumption, including goods and services bought or produced by families in Italy. [Full details ]
ISTAT: Education & Work Transition (Italy)
Data provided by the Italian national statistical office (ISTAT) on the school performance and school-to-work transitions of young Italians. [Full details ]
Luxembourg Income Study
The Luxembourg Income Study – and the related Luxembourg Wealth Study – provide data on global income, inequality and related themes for 36 countries worldwide. [Full details ]
National Longitudinal Surveys (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Bureau of Labor Statistics database providing statistics on labour market experiences and other aspects of the lives of six cohorts of American men and women. [Full details ]
Panel Study of Income Dynamics (USA)
Longitudinal survey of a representative sample of US citizens and their families, ongoing since 1968. Central focus on income sources and amounts, employment, family composition changes and demographic events. [Full details ]
Post-secondary Education Quick Information System (U.S. Department of Education)
Established in 1991 by the National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Education) to provide data on post-secondary and state higher education institutions. [Full details ]
Survey of Consumer Finances (U.S. Federal Reserve)
A triennial, U.S. Federal Reserve Board, survey of the balance sheet, pension, income, and other demographic characteristics of American families. [Full details ]
Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is a cross-national panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks of more than 45,000 individuals aged 50 and over. [Full details ]
Survey of Household Income and Wealth (Italy)
Information concerning household composition, age, education, labour market variables, incomes, savings, consumption and wealth of Italian households and household members. [Full details ]
Survey of Income and Program Participation (U.S. Census Bureau)
U.S. Census Bureau longitudinal survey providing data on the impact of state and federal government programmes on the well-being of American families. [Full details ]
UK Data Archive (ESDS/UKDA)
Large-scale repository of social sciences and humanities data, supported by the Economic and Social Research Council. The UKDA is a service provider for the Economic and Social Data Service.[Full details ]
US Census of Population and Housing (U.S. Census Bureau)
General demographic characteristics data, released as individual files for each of the 50 federal states. [Full details ]
Välfärd och ojämlikhet i 20-årsperspektiv (Sweden) [Welfare & gender inequality] Statistical overview of socioeconomic trends and living conditions in Sweden from 1975 to 1995, prepared by Statistiska Centralbyrån. [Full details ]
Work Histories Italian Panel (WHIP)
Database of individual work histories from the Italian social security adminstration archive. [Full details ]
World Values Survey (WVS Assoc.)
Investigation of socio-cultural and political change undertaken by a network of social scientists into the values and beliefs of the publics of more than 80 societies worldwide. [Full details ]
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