Following are some e-links to web sites. These are not necessary for the class assignments, but you may find them useful for your own research or for other classes.

General  Resource Locations
• Resources for Economists - Links to internet resources that are oof interest to economists.
• ICPSR Homepage - Archive of computerized social science data, accessible through the institutional representative.
  
Agricultural Resources
• AGRICOLA Home Page - Bibliographic database of citations to the agricultural literature.
• National Agricultural Library - Source for agriculture and related data.
• USDA Economics and Statistics System -  Agricultural Data
  
Statisical Resources
• The Data and Story Library - Online library of datafiles and storiees that illustrate the use of basic statistics.
• Introduction to Data Handling - This handout  introduce you to the basics of converting raw data into a dataset to be used by a statistical application, specifically SPSS or SAS
• The Statistics Homepage - Electronic Textbook by Statsoft.
• FAQ -FAQ for Neural Networks
  
Econometric Resources
• Handbook of Econometrics - Full text of the volumes are for free..
  
Free Data on the Web
• DES - Home Page - Data Extraction System from Bureau of Census data. Create custom data extracts from Current Population Survey(CPS), 1990 Census Public Use Microdata, etc.
• FERRET - Data from CPS, SIPP, etc.
• Integrated Public Use Microdata Series - IPUMS consists of twenty-five high-preecision samples of the American population drawn from thirteen federal censuses.
• Panel Study of Income Dynamics - The PSID is a longitudinal survey of aa representative sample of US individuals and the families.
• GSS (General Social Survey) - Personal interview survey of U.S. households conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC)
• Links to Data Extraction Systems - Links maintained by the University of Chicago, Social Science Research Computing Center.
• Economic Statistics -  White House Briefing Room providdes current Federal economic indicators.
• Statistical reference data sets - U.S. demographic information at the city, county, state level for the years 1988 and 1994.
• UCSD social science data sets - The Data are only accessible through USCD.  You can view the listing of data sourses.  However some of  the data may be accessible through the included  "GPO gateway" (at least for government data).
• Business cycle indicators - Macroeconomic variables are found heree.
• U. of Wisconsin data & program library service - Studies and data (for which you must register).  An excellent way to reproduce an existing study.
• The Dismal Scientist - All kinds of  market releted data
• Fedstats - List of federal statistical agencies.
• St. Louis Fed macro data -
• Russian Longitudinal Monitering Data -
• University of Michigan's Statistical Resources on the Net
• HRS/AHEAD - Health Retirement Survey- Asset & Health Dynamics Among the Elderly.
• Ray Fair's Macroeconomic Model -

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