6 Data sources for project inspiration

6.1 Economic time-series databases

  1. The Bank for International Settlements
  2. OECD - stat-bank
  3. AMECO - Annual macroeconomic of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs
  4. The World Bank open data source
  5. Eurostat Database
  6. Danish Data - Kim Abildgren’s historical database
  7. Jorda-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database

6.2 Income and income inequality databases

  1. World Inequality Database
  2. United Nations University WIID – World Income Inequality Database
  3. Luxumborg income database

6.3 Datasets available via CALDISS

It is certainly a good idea to visit the CALDISS website or speak with a representative, as they offer some great introductory courses and access to some great data.

  1. Refinitiv Eikon (Financial Time Series Data - Much like the Thomson Reuters Datastream)

6.4 AAU based databases

  1. Surveybanken

6.5 Diverse datasets

  1. The Harvard Dataverse
  2. Kaggle - datasets used for machine learning and AI applications
  3. The New York Times Github repository
  4. FiveThirtyWight Github page
  5. The MIT Observatory of Economic Complexity - Economic trade data
  6. The Google public data explorer (run in Chrome)
  7. European Union Open Data portal
  8. GESIS data, including
  9. European Social Survey data

6.6 Danish data

  1. Danmarks Statistik
  2. Danish Data Archive - The Danish Data Archive is a national service for social-, history- and health sciences.
  3. Rigsarkivets surveydata
  4. Geographic shape files