Historical Statistics: An Update (Bobray Bordelon)

PS/CD Training - March 8, 2007

• Historical Statistics (the previous sessions)
• Global Financial Data (what's new)
  • ability to download multiple time series into the same worksheet
  • histories on over 11,000 US stocks (1962+) (some back to early 1900s)
  • histories on British and Dutch companies back to the 1600's
  • real estate market data
  • Coming: data on over 4000 discontinued stocks.
• SourceOECD (what's new)
  • No longer includes Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, European Conference of Ministers of Transport, and the Sahel & West Africa Club. 
  • International Energy Agency (now new but a reminder)
  • OECD Index of Statistical Variables
  • DOI links (an example)
  
  
• Historical statistics of the United States : earliest times to the present
  • Print equivalent in SSRC and Stokes
  • Read the essays!
  • Best results obtained by searching within a specific section
  • Colonial Period and Confederate States of America are not part of regular subjects and are in Volume 5
  • can print, email, download, graph, or customize results
  • if doing anything other than viewing, create an account which will allow customization and saving for future use
  
  
• AHDS History's Collections (UK historical data)