Skip to Main Content

Personal financial planning: guide for graduate students

Consumer Expenditure Survey (Click CE microdata in left nav bar)
General Social Survey Data Explorer 1972-2014, selected variables:
- Importance of financial security
- How you and your spouse organize family finances
- How do you and your spouse/partner organize the income that one or both of you receive?
- Have you borrowed $100+ from another person in the last year?
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)

	ICPSR Data	Roper Center Data
Search for studies	Search study topics	Search study descriptions
Search for variables	Search question text using ICPSR's Social Sciences Variables Database	Search question text using the iPoll database
Analyze online	Go to ICPSR's Find Data, then choose "List studies for which online analysis is available."	RoperExplorer Click on star in search results
Download data	Self-explanatory, choose your preferred software format (SPSS, etc.)	Roper Express Click on the flying X in search results

More sites to help you find data:

re3Data: Registry of Research Data Repositories
Dataverse
UK Data Service Nesstar Catalogue
Data.gov (caution: site does not distinguish between statistics and data)
- Finance
- Consumer

More sites offering online analysis:

SDA: Survey Documentation & Analysis

Recommended books:

Data Literacy: A User's Guide by David Herzog, c2016.
Data Basics: An Introductory Text by Diane Geraci, Chuck Humphrey and James A. Jacobs, 2012.

Course materials:

ICPSR Resources for Instructors