Data Resources for Personal Financial Planning: Home

• affluence
• consumer attitudes
• consumer behavior
• cost of living
• disposable income
• economic behavior
• economic trends
• family income
• financial management
• financial planning
• financial policy
• household income
• income
• income estimates
• income tax
• investment returns
• investments
• investors
• occupations
• pensions
• personal finances
• personal wealth
• savings
• taxes
• wealth

• Data Visualization
  • GoogleVis (examples)
  • Google Chart Gallery
• Big Data
  • United Nations Global Pulse: Harnessing Big Data for Development and Humanitarian Action
• Freely available statistical software
  • The R Project for Statistical Computing

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

• 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)

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