Public datasets

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1	Suppose you're e.g. an undergrad or masters student who wants to do an empirical thesis, but you don't know where to find data. It's now 2020 and there are many rich public datasets that can be used to do very interesting things! Here's a list of some public datasets you can consider looking at. If you have any suggestions for things to add here, please email me at anthonyzhang0@gmail.com, or just comment on this document.				Thanks to contributors: Ben McCartney, Tim Hua
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4	ACS	Household	Yearly	https://usa.ipums.org/usa/	Big US household survey 2006-onwards
5	FRED	National	Daily	https://fred.stlouisfed.org/	Macro time series
6	Zillow research data	Zipcode	Monthly	https://www.zillow.com/research/data/	Housing prices, sales, etc
7	Realtor.com data	Zipcode	Monthly	https://www.realtor.com/research/data/	Housing prices, sales, etc
8	American Housing Survey	Household	Annual	https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ahs/data.html	Housing characteristics (costs, physical condition, with household characteristics)
9	Home Mortgage Disclosure Act	Mortgage	Annual	https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/hmda/historic-data/	Mortgage rates, LTV, borrower characteristics
10	National Survey of Mortgage Originations	Household	QUarterly	https://www.fhfa.gov/DataTools/Downloads/Pages/National-Survey-of-Mortgage-Originations-Public-Use-File.aspx	Mortgages
11	Consumer expenditure survey	Household	Yearly	https://www.bls.gov/cex/	Consumer expenditures on very fine categories
12	Survey of consumer finances	Household	Yearly	https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/scfindex.htm	Consumer expenditures and finance data
13	American time use survey	Household	Yearly	https://www.bls.gov/tus/ , https://timeuse.ipums.org/	Consumer time use
14	Panel Study of Income Dynamics	Household	Yearly (panel)	https://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/	Tracks consumers over time, so can be used to look at career progression, etc.
15	Call reports	Bank	Quarterly	https://cdr.ffiec.gov/public/	Panel data on banks' balance sheets
16	American Fact Finder	Geography (zipcode, county)	Yearly	https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml	Various firm + household characteristics
17	NHGIS	Geography (zipcode, county)	Yearly	https://data2.nhgis.org/main	Various geographic characteristics (demographics, etc.)
18	General Social Survey	Household	Yearly	https://gss.norc.org/	Demographics, social characteristics, attitudes
19	CFPB data	Various	Various	https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/	Various
20	Household Pulse Survey	Household	Weekly	https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/household-pulse-survey/datasets.html	Weekly COVID survey
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26	Open access datasets	Various	Varies	https://sites.google.com/view/mekhaimer/research_1/open-access-resources	Collection of open access databases
27	International Banking Library			https://bankinglibrary.com/data/
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