Data Sources
Welcome to the Crawford School data site. Some of the data are directly available from links below and other data will need to be accessed at particular computers (such as CEIC data).
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Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. FAOSTAT provides access to time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Economic Statistics for Agriculture and Fisheries.
Agricultural trade data and production data for a number of countries
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Numerous demographic and development statistics |
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World Resources Institute - Database of policies measures in some 20 developing countries that have an impact on climate change
Trends Online - Climate change and GHG emissions data
Environment and earth science data services from Columbia University
Global Environment Outlook data portal
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Datastream - Chiefly booking required
CEIC Data - Accessible from PC LAb 2 (Level 2 Crawford Bulding) or email crawford.data@anu.edu.au
Available on CD or online through the library
Available on CD
Available on CD
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World Bank Governance Data - Includes links to: Aggregate governance indicators; Bank regulation and supervision datasets; Business environment and enterprise performance survey; Cross-national data on government and wages; Doing business indicators; Fiscal decentralisation indicators; Investment climate assessment; Knowledge assessment methodology; Living standards measurement surveys; The database of political institutions; Qualitative decentralisation indicators; Regulatory direction and unofficial economy; World business environment survey; World development report dataset
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Available on CD or online through the library |
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WTO Index of National Statistical Offices - pdf with links to national statistical offices of most countries
US economic data from the St Louis Federal Reserve" under the category National and Regional Agencies
Productivity Commission, Australian Government - Report on Government Services. Provides benchmarks on the provision of a range of government services across Australia. |
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STARS (Statistical Trade Analysis Retrieval System) is an international trade and production database located in the ANU which has a collection of comprehensive trade data at the finest possible level of aggregation with the capability of aggregating in ways commonly used in analysis by applied trade economists at the ANU and with the capacity for calculating trade shares and indices readily.
STARS is currently available by contacting the Crawford Data Manager on Crawford.Data@ANU.edu.au
Great circle distance calculator - download Earth.zip for all capital city combinations
Available on CD
Provides information on key information on trade statistics, WTO commitments, disputes, trade policy reviews, and tariffs |
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Paul Hensel's International Relations Data Site - Includes: International Conflict and Cooperation Data; International Economic Data; International Environmental Data; International Political Data; International Social Data; United States Data |
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Australian Social Science Data Archive. Contains ABS and other data relating to social, political and economic affairs. |
Application for Crawford Staff/Student Data Needs
Frequently Asked Questions
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Q: How can I access ANU's own International Economic Databank (IEDB) where the STARS database is housed?
A: ANU staff and students can access the database and conduct calculations live on the database by creating an account here.
Q: How can I borrow the IMF data CDs? (Direction of Trade Stats, International Financial Statistics, Balance of Payments Statistics and Government Financial Statistics)
A: You can email crawford.data@anu.edu.au and set up a time to borrow or visit the data manager representative on the ground floor in the China Economy and Business Program in the Crawford Building right in front of room 38 on Fridays between 8:30am and 9:30am.
The Crawford School data manager is available for lending of data CDs, help with STARS and all other data related enquiries. Please contact him on crawford.data@anu.edu.au directly to organise a consultation time.
Feedback
We want to hear your feedback. Please use the area below for suggestions on databases that should be included, questions, reporting broken links and anything else.
