Economic Databases

Two economic databases that are available. Please contact Timbelake Consultants for a price quote

Haver Analytics US Economic Databases

For the Haver Analytics data, there are three packages from which to choose:

  • USECON Database
    USECON (U.S Economic Statistics) is Haver’s primary database of U.S. economic and financial data. It includes approximately 12,000 data series, including national accounts, prices, housing, construction, industrial production, interest rates, money supply, public finance, wholesale and retail trade, manufacturers’ shipments, inventories and orders, employment, productivity, population, international trade and business cycle indicators.
  • USECON Plus USNA Databases
    Purchasers of the USECON database have the option of also subscribing to the USNA (U.S National Accounts) database, which offers an additional 20,000 series with complete national income and product accounts data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. These series provide detailed information such as monthly personal consumption expenditures and personal income.
  • US1 Database
    The US1 database is a subset of the USECON database, containing approximately 750 of the most commonly-used data series.

Distribution Details
The data are supplied on CD ROM, both in RATS format, and in Haver’s DLX (Data Link Express) format. RATS users can access the RATS files directly using RATS or the menu-driven RATSDATA utility program. Customers with Version 5 of WinRATS-32 can also obtain a DLL file that also allows RATS to access the DLX versions of the data files. The CD will also include a copy of the menu-driven RATSDATA data-management software for customers who do not have RATS or Haver’s DLX software.

The databases are offered as a one-year subscription. Commercial institutions will receive updates every month. Academic institutions have the option of getting monthly updates, quarterly updates, or of purchasing just a single copy of the database (the “Annual” subscription). For any pricing information. Please contact Timberlake Consutlants.

OECD MEI Database

The OECD MEI database is available in "Full" and "Seven Country" versions. The Full version includes data on more than 30 countries, including Western Europe, the U.S., Canada, Japan, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Russia, and the former Soviet republics. The seven country version includes only the "group of seven" countries: U.S., Canada, Japan, U.K., France, Germany, and Italy.

The data for most countries include GDP and its major components, producer and consumer price indexes, money stock and related measures, major interest rates, industrial production indexes, unemployment rates, exchange rate vs. the dollar, and the general stock market index. For larger countries, you will also find data on orders, shipments, and inventory stocks, plus greater disaggregation on the price and industrial production indexes. Many of the monthly series are available in both seasonally adjusted and unadjusted forms.

You can purchase a single copy of the OECD database, or you can purchase quarterly or monthly subscriptions. The subscriptions provide you with updated copies of the database on a monthly or quarterly basis for one year.

The OECD data is now supplied on CD ROM, in our convenient RATS data file format, with one data file for each country (except for the former Soviet republics, which are all supplied on a single file). You can use the data directly with our RATS software, or use the included RATSDATA utility program to view, print, or graph data, or export data into other formats, including text files or Excel spreadsheets.

The data is available for both PC and Macintosh systems (call for availability for UNIX and mainframe systems). Please contact Estima if you would like to receive listings of the series included in the various databases. The Full database requires about 12Mb of disk space, while the G7 version requires about 4Mb of space.