Locating comparative international statistics

Print volumes on a variety of social and economic factors:
World Development Indicators REF HC59.15.W656 2009
Little Green Data Book REF HC59.3.L58 2006

Electronic sources:
GlobalEdge
MarketLine
StatUSA
CIA World Factbook

Also Marcy's web pages:
Country profiles http://www.nelson.usf.edu/reference/documents/BusCountryProfiles.html
Bookmarks
http://delicious.com/marcylibrarian

Statistics and data sets

We have a business class where the students need to locate data sets. Marcy has created a nice web page on her nelson business page:

http://www.nelson.usf.edu/reference/subject_guides/business/statistics_data.html


Please refer students to this page if they need suggestions on where to locate statistics and data.

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Actually, I also just posted the updated course guide (for Business Statistics II) on the Business Reference portion of our web site at the following:

http://web.nelson.usf.edu/reference/documents/BusStatistics.html

And there is a related post on my blog

http://businessresearchstuff.blogspot.com

Locating raw data sets

We have had a few questions about obtaining raw data sets for analysis. If you go to databases by title/subject and enter Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research or ICPSR, you can access a database that "supplies data files for use with statistical software, such as SAS or SPSS"