Find Data and Statistics
Next to scholarly journal articles and business intelligence, data and statistics are central to business and entrepreneurship research. The data sources here are all powerful in different ways: some are great for financial markets, others for mapping and visualizing economic data, and still others for different types of assignments and research projects.
Subscription-Based Busines and Entrepreneurship Data Resources
Current Rollins students, faculty, and staff may use these resources from off campus, such as out of state or internationally. Alumni and community members may use most of these resources by visiting Olin Library. We highly advise contacting Professor Robinson ahead of time, so he can suggest where to start.
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FactSet This link opens in a new window
A multinational financial data and software company that provides financial information and analytic software for investment professionals. Please contact Blake Robinson, Business Librarian, and he will enroll you on your behalf. Please allow up to 24 hours to receive a confirmation e-mail from FactSet.
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ICPSR This link opens in a new window
An international consortium of more than 810 academic institutions and research organizations, ICPSR provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
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PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
PolicyMap is a U.S. national data and mapping tool that combines a curated, geographic data library with simple, robust mapping and analytics tools.
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Statista This link opens in a new window
A statistics portal that integrates data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets on thousands of topics from a wide variety of sources.
Freely Available Business and Entrepreneurship Data Resources
These data resources are available to all users, including alumni and community members. It does not matter if you are a current student at Rollins or not.
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Data.Census.GovUse this to get more comprehensive demographic profiles of any state, county, or town in the USA.
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Direction of Trade StatisticsThis resource from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) "presents the value of merchandise exports and imports disaggregated according to a country's primary trading partners."
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Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. LouisContains more than 143,000 U.S., international, and regional data series from 59 sources. Coverage ranges from standard items such as the consumer price index (CPI), gross domestic product (GDP), and population and employment rates to interest and exchange rates, imports and exports, commodities production and prices, and many more.
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Florida Office of Economic and Demographic Research (EDR)"The Office of Economic and Demographic Research (EDR) is a research arm of the Legislature principally concerned with forecasting economic and social trends that affect policy making, revenues, and appropriations."
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Overview of BLS Statistics on Unemployment"A number of BLS programs provide information about joblessness."
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UN SDG Indicators DatabaseSDG Global Database gives you access to data on more than 210 SDG
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World Development IndicatorsThe World Development Indicators is a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. The database contains 1,400 time series indicators for 217 economies and more than 40 country groups, with data for many indicators going back more than 50 years.