Guides: BUS 425: Data Analytics: Statistics &amp; Data Sources

Resources

The ARDA
The Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA) strives to democratize access to the best data on religion. The targeted audience and the data collection have both greatly expanded since 1998, now including American and international collections and developing features for educators, journalists, religious congregations, and researchers.
Direction of Trade Statistics (IMF)
Coverage from 1947 to the present. From the IMF.
Eurostat
Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union
globalEDGE Tools and Data
Access to information and stats worldwide. From Michigan State University.
IMF Country Information
Information on countries worldwide from the IMF.
IMF Data (International Monetary Fund)
Worldwide data from the IMF
Inflation Rate/ Consumer Prices (CIA World Factbook)
Inflation rate (consumer prices) compares the annual percent change in consumer prices with the previous year's consumer prices.
International Labour Organization: Statistics and Databases
Labour statistics from the ILO.
MIDAS: Market Information Data Analytics System (SEC)
From the SEC, this contains very rich and complete intra-day financial market (averaged by the stock-day) statistics for thousands of securities. It also describes the methodology behind every variable.

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SEC MIDAS (Market Information Data and Analytics System) contains Individual Security Metrics published by SEC MIDAS. It provides market trading metrics for over 8,000 securities (stocks and exchange-traded portfolios).

SEC MIDAS also contains proxies for daily Algorithm Trading (AT) and High Frequency Trading (HFT) activities. For example:
- Cancel-to-Trade ratio,
- Trade-to-Order ratio,
- Odd Lot Ratio.

Other daily trading summaries include:
- Total Trade Volume,
- Hidden Order Volume,
- Trades and Trading Volume against Hidden Orders,
- Hidden Rate, etc.
OECD: Data
From the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Click on the top right "explore" for more recent data.
UN - Food and Agriculture Organization
Key resources include "FAOStat" and "SDG Indicators." Scroll down for these and more resources
UN Data
Data and statistics from the UN
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Education, science, culture, communication, technology stats
UNICEF Data
World Bank Data
Open data from the World Bank