• Agriculture
• Virginia
• United States Department of Agriculture
• Virginia Agricultural Statistics (USDA)
• 1997 Census of Agriculture
•   Virginia Agriculture Fact Sheet
• University of Virginia Geostat
• Farm Income and Expenses

(See BEA Table CA45 listed under "state or county level variables"
• United States
• United States Department of Agriculture
• 1997 Census of Agriculture
• Economic Research Service
• Tobacco Situation and Outlook Report

 
 
• Banking and Finance
• Virginia
• Bureau of the Census
• Census of Finance & Insurance, 1997
• Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Deposits of banks, credit unions and saving institutions, for the state and local areas
• United States
• Bureau of the Census
•  Census of Finance & Insurance, 1997
• FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile
• Federal Reserve Board of Governors
• Federal Reserve Bank of MN

Interest and Exchange Rate Charts
• Federal Reserve Bank of NY

Selected Interest Rates
• National Financial Services Network
• Prime Rate Chart
• Twelve Federal Reserve Banks

 
• Calendar Release Dates
• Federal Reserve Bank of NY
• Calendar of Release Dates for Economic Series




• City and County Profiles
  • Virginia
    • Bureau of the Census
      • Quick Facts
    • Virginia Economic Development Partnership
      • City and County Profiles
  • United States
    • Bureau of the Census
      • State and County Demographic and Economic Profiles

     

• Crime
• Virginia State Police
• Annual Crime Statistic

 

• Commuting
  • Weldon Cooper Center Demographics Section
    • Commuting Data from Census

• Defense
• Department of Defense
• Directorate for Information Operations and Reports
• Work Force and Contracts Information by State

 
• Earnings/ Wages 
• United States
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Wage and Salary Data for Independent Cities, Counties, and Combined Areas
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Average Annual Pay, by State, by Industry
• Average Annual Pay by MSA, All States
• Average Annual Pay for Large Counties, All States
• Occupational Employment and Wage Surveys, All States

 

• Economic Development
• Virginia Economic Development Partnership
• Press releases about openings and expansions

• Economics
• Dr. T's EconLinks
Web page featuring many links for economists
• The Dismal Scientist, West Chester, PA
Web page featuring current economic data
• University of Southern Mississippi Dept. of Economics and International Business
• Resources for Economists on the Internet

• Education
• Virginia
• Cooper Center
• Fall Membership Projections by School Division
• State Council of Higher Education for Virginia
• Virginia Department of Education
• Data and Publications
• Virginia Education Association
• United States
• National Center for Education Statistics

• Employment
• Virginia
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Total Employment by Locality, Annual
 ( Scroll down to "Detailed County Annual Tables" and highlight CA25, "Total full-time and
part-time employment by industry." Choose a region or a state and a date, then press display.
The data for the state or region will be displayed. For a further breakdown by county, click on
the "Code" link next to each category.)
• Wage and Salary Employment by Locality, Annual
(Scroll down to "Detailed Current Series" and highlight SA27, "Wage and Salary Employment
by Industry." Choose a region or a state and a date, then press display. The data for the state or
region will be displayed.)
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Total Nonfarm Payroll Employment, Statewide Data
• Total Nonfarm Payroll Employment for Virginia and by MSA, Not Seasonally Adjusted (NSA)
• Nonfarm Payroll Employment for Virginia and by MSA , by Major Industry, Not Seasonally Adjusted (NSA)
• Cooper Center
•   Chart of Total Nonfarm Payroll Moving Average % Change, Virginia and U.S., Not Seasonally Adjusted (NSA)
• Cooper Center Demographics Section
•   Guide to Career Prospects in Virginia
• Virginia Employment Commission
• Covered Employment by Locality, Quarterly
• Labor Force, Employment, Unemployment (LAUS), Monthly and Annual Reports
• Virginia Employment Commission Press Release

 (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader )
• Virginia's Electronic Labor Market Access (VELMA)
• Adjoining States
• Employment security agencies in adjoining states and the District of Columbia
• District of Columbia
• Kentucky
• Maryland
• North Carolina
• Tennessee
• West Virginia
• United States
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Regional Economic Information System Employment Data, Annual
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Covered Employment and Wages, Annual
• National Employment Situation, Monthly
• Regional and State Employment Situation, Monthly
• Bureau of the Census
• County Business Patterns
• US Census 2000 Demographic Profiles

(Select link "Demographic Profile Data Search" and then select by state and county)
• Office of Personnel Management
• Federal Civilian Employment by Geographic Area

 
• Federal Expenditures
• Virginia
• Bureau of the Census
• Consolidated Federal Funds Reports for states and localities
• United States
• Office of Management and Budget
• The Federal Budget

• Forecasts
• United States
• Bank of America
• Bureau of the Census
• Census Bureau State Population Projections: 1995 to 2025
• Congressional Budget Office

(See Economic and Budget Outlook)
• Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

(See Quarterly/Annual Forecasts)--Vector Autoregressive Model
• Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• The Livingston Survey of Economists' Expectations
• Survey of Professional Forecasters
• The University of Michigan Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics

 

• Foreign Trade
• United States
• U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, Office of Trade & Economic Analysis

Data on state and metropolitan area exports to countries and regions.
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• Waterborne commerce data.

• Government Finance/ Taxation
• Virginia
• Auditor of Public Accounts

    Comparative Report of Local Government Revenue & Expenditure
• Annual studies
• Time series from annual studies
• Commission on Local Government
• Comparative Rev, Capacity, Effort, & Fiscal Stress --Counties and Cities
• Cooper Center
• Tax Rates 2002: Virginia's Cities, Counties, & Selected Towns (brochure)
• Tax Rates 2001: Virginia's Cities, Counties, & Selected Towns
• Tax Rates 2000: Virginia's Cities, Counties, & Selected Towns
• Tax Rates 1999:Virginia's Cities, Counties, & Selected Towns
• Virginia Issues (July, 2002): Reforming the Individual Income Tax
• Department of Accounts (State Comptroller)
• Report of the Comptroller (CAFR)
• Department of Motor Vehicles
• Commonwealth Transportation Fund revenues
(Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader )
• Department of Planning and Budget
• State Budget: Current and Recent Budgets
• Budget Time Series Data
  • Operating Budget General Fund 1988-2002
  • Operating Budget Non General Fund 1988-2002
  • Operating Budget Totals: 1988-2002
  • Capital Project Summaries 1988-2002
    
• Department of Taxation
  • Annual reports
  • Assessment/sales ratio studies
  • Legislative Summary of Tax Changes (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader )
  • Local Option Sales and Use Tax Distribution by Month
  • Local Tax Rates
    • Annual Studies (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader )
    • Time series of real estate tax rates from annual studies
  • Taxable Sales, Virginia sales and use tax
  • Virginia Tax Facts

    
                 (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader )

  • Virginia Tax Policy Library
• Department of the Treasury
  • Debt Capacity Advisory Committee
• Division of Legislative Automated Systems
  •   Virginia Tax Code
• General Assembly's Legislative Information System
• Governor's Commission on Efficiency and Effectiveness
• House Appropriations Committee
  • Looking Ahead: 2004 - 2006 Budget (1/16/2003 Staff presentation)
• Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission (JLARC)
  • Fiscal Analysis Data
  • JLARC Datasets
• Secretary of Finance
  • Monthly General Fund Revenue Data
• Senate Finance Committee
• Virginia Economic Development Partnership
  • Guide to Local Taxes on Businesses
• Virginia Public Access Project (Campaign Finance)
• United States
• Brookings and Urban Institute Tax Policy Center
• Bureau of the Census
  • State government finances
  • State government tax collections
  • State and local government finances 
    
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• Federation of Tax Administrators
  • State and local tax burdens
  • State tax rates and structure
• District of Columbia Office of Tax and Revenue
  • Tax rates and tax burdens: nationwide comparison
• Federal Highway Administration

   See "Highway Taxes and Fees. How They are Collected and Administered"

• Governing Magazine
• Maxwell Campbell Public Affairs Institute
  • Government Performance Project
• Muninet Guide and Review
• National Conference of State Legislatures
• National Tax Association

  See "State and local resources"

• Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government
  • Gateway to State and Local Government Information
• Schmidt Enterprises, LLC (Tax Sites Directory)
  • Tax and accounting sites directory: state and local links
• Tax Foundation
  • State and local tax burdens

    
    (See "Combined state & local tax burdens as a percentage of income, by state")

• Federal Government

• Cornell Legal Information Institute

  • Federal Tax Code
• Internal Revenue Service
  • Internal Revenue Service tax statistics

   

• Gross State Product

Bureau of Economic Analysis
Regional Accounts Data: Gross State Product




• Health

  National Center for Health Statistics
               Health Chartbook

• High Tech Sector
  • Virginia
    • Center for Innovative Technology
      • InnovationAvenue (Technology business web portal)
        • High Tech Industries in Virginia
    • Washington Post
      • WashTech.com (Intelligence for Washington's New Economy)
• Housing
  • Virginia
    • Cooper Center
      • Virginia Residential Building Permits Issued
    • Virginia Center for Housing Research at Virginia Tech
  • United States
    • Bureau of the Census
      •   US Census 2000 Demographic Profiles

        
        (Select link "Demographic Profile Data Search" and then select by state and locality)

      • Household and Housing Unit Estimates
      • Housing Affordability
      • New Privately Owned Housing Units Authorized
      • Housing Starts/Building Permits       (Press Release)
      • Housing Starts/Building Permits       (Graph)
      • Housing Units Completed
      • New Houses Sold
      • New Construction ($)
      • Expenditures for Improvements and Repairs (quarterly)
    • National Association of Home Builders
      • Housing Market Index
    • National Association of Realtors
      • News Releases
    • Office of Housing Enterprise Oversight
      • OFHEO House Price Index
• Income
  • Personal Income
    • Virginia
      • Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
        • Total and per capita personal income by locality, annual
    •  United States
      • Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)
        • Tables of personal income, including total and per capita income, by state, annual
        • Detailed tables of total and per capita income by state, quarterly and annual
        • BEARFACTS

          
          Bureau of Economic Analysis narratives for states,
          counties, and MSAs that describe an area's personal income.

  • Virginia Adjusted Gross Income
    • Cooper Center
      • Virginia Adjusted Gross Income Data (1990-2000)
      • Analysis of annual adjusted gross income data
        • Spotlight on Virginia: Virginia Adjusted Gross Income, 2000
        • Spotlight on Virginia: Virginia Adjusted Gross Income, 1999
        • Spotlight on Virginia: 1998 Virginia Adjusted Gross Income
        • Research Notes: Virginia Adjusted Gross Income,1997
        • Spotlight on Virginia: 1996 Virginia Adjusted Gross Income
        • Spotlight on Virginia: 1995 Virginia Adjusted Gross Income
  •  Money Income
    • United States
      • Bureau of the Census
        • US Census 2000 Demographic Profiles

          
          (Select link "Demographic Profile Data Search" and then
          select by state and locality)

        • Median household income, by locality

          
          (Select year you want from "Income Year" box and select
          "Median household income" from "Statistic" box.)

        • Median household income by state
        • Median family income by state (4 persons), annual
        • Most recent Census report on money income in the U.S.
      • Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
        • Median Family Income, fiscal Year Estimates, Selected Localities

          (Scroll down to list of FY Income Limits)

• Manufacturing
  • Bureau of the Census
    • 1997 Census of Manufacturing--Geographical Area Series
    • 1992 Census of Manufactures, state and county detailed information

      
      

• Mining
  • Virginia Center For Coal and Energy Research at Virginia Tech

• Occupations
• Cooper Center Demographics Section
• Guide to Career Prospects in Virginia

• Population/ Demographics
• Virginia
• Cooper Center Demographics Section
• Census of Population, 2000 for Virginia
• Census of Population, 2000: Demographic Profiles for Virginia and Localities
• Census of Population and Housing, 1990
• Population Estimates, Virginia
• Virginia Employment Commission
• Projections for 2000 (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader )
• Projections for 2010 (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader )
• Virginia Center for Health Statistics
• Vital Statistics
• United States
• Bureau of the Census
• Census of Population, 2000
• Census of Population, 2000: demographic profile downloads for states and localities
•  (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader )
• Census of Population and Housing, 1990
• Land area and population per square mile, 1990
• Population estimates
• Population projections
• State and county demographic and economic profiles

• Poverty
• Bureau of the Census
• Census Bureau Poverty Home Page
• US Census 2000 Demographic Profiles
• (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader )
(Select link "Demographic Profile Data Search" and then
select by state and locality)
• Measurement of Poverty
• Poverty Estimates by Independent City and County

(Select Year from "Income Year" box and select
appropriate poverty measure in "Statistic" box.)
• Poverty Thresholds
• State Poverty Rates
• Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates
• Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
• Poverty Guidelines Research and Measurement

• Price Indexes
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Consumer price index
• CPI-U current press release
• CPI-U Monthly and annual data on the total index, 1953 to 1974 and 1975 to present
Files developed by the Cooper Center from BLS data.
• CPI-U Monthly and annual data on the total index and by major item and by area
After making your selection on the BLS web page, scroll to the bottom of the page to complete your request.
• CPI-U Monthly historical data, January 1946 to the present
Monthly data for the total index in one column.
• CPI-U Inflation Calculator
• Producer price index
• PPI current press release
• Producer price index for finished goods
• Homefair.com
• Salary Calculator to Compare Cost of Living Between Two Localities
 

• Regional Economics
• Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• Conditions in Each Federal Reserve District ("The Beige Book")
• Bureau of the Census
• County Business Patterns
• State Rankings from the U.S. Statistical Abstract
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Regional Economic Information System
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Economy at a Glance (economic statistics for regions and the 50 states)
• MSA Definitions from OMB
• Regional Economy Data
• Cooper Center
• Virginia News Letter on "Recent Developments in the Virginia Economy"
• EconData.Net        (Andrew Reamer & Associates and Impresa)
Sources of Socioeconomic Data for Economic Development Analysis
• Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
• Fifth District state and local economic profiles

• Retail Trade/Taxable Sales
• Virginia Department of Taxation
• Taxable Sales, Virginia sales and use tax
• Virginia Department of Taxation business category codes
• Bureau of the Census
• 1997 Census of Retail Trade
• 1992 Narrative of Retail Trade Census
• 1992 Table of Retail Trade Census
• 1992 Census of Retail Trade, state and county detailed information

Select state or locality, submit query; next, choose "retail trade" from the pop-up list and "get the above selected report."

• Search Engines for Federal Data
• Interagency Council on Statistical Policy
• FedStats
• Library of Congress
• Library Resource Web Site
• US Government Printing Office
• GPO Access
• University of California
• Government INFOMINE Search

• Services
• Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
• Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Survey of Service Businesses
• Bureau of the Census
• Census of Services, 1997
• Census of services, 1992, state and county detailed information
• Census of Services, 1992 (Table)
• Census of Services, 1992 (Narrative)

• Statistical Abstracts
• Virginia
•   Weldon Cooper Center Demographics Section
• Statistical Abstract of Virginia
• United States
• Burea of the Census
• Statistical Abstract of the United States

• Tourism
• Virginia Tourism Corporation
•   Historical data, including tourism economic impact profiles by city and county

• Transportation, Communications &  Utilities
• Virginia
• Bureau of the Census
• 1997 Census of Transportation and Warehousing
• 1992 Census of Transportation, Communications, and Public Utilities

Choose "Transportation, communications, and utilities" from the pop-up list and "get the above selected report."
• Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles
•   Automobiles registered and number of crashes, by city and county
•   Transportation revenue tracking report (monthly)
    (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader )
• United States
• Bureau of Transportation Statistics (US Dept. of Transportation)
• U.S. Department of Transportation, Highway Statistics Publication
• State Freight Transportation Profiles
•  Federal Aviation Administration
•    Enplanement and all-cargo reports

• Unemployment
• Virginia
•  Virginia Employment Commission
• Virginia Employment Commission press release
• Labor force, employment, unemployment (LAUS), Annual and Monthly Report
• United States
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• National Employment Situation, Monthly
• Regional and State Employment Situation, Monthly
• Department of Labor
• Unemployment Insurance Initial Weekly Claims

• U.S. Economy
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• U.S. Economy at a Glance
• The Dismal Scientist, West Chester, PA
•  Web page featuring current economic data
• Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
• Economic Trends

(A monthly snapshot of national, international, and regional issues published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland)
• Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Calendar of Release Dates for Economic Series
• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
•   FRED database of economic and financial information
• Federal Reserve Board
• "Beige Book" (commentary on economic conditions by Federal Reserve District)
• Industrial production and capacity utilization
• The White House
•   Economic statistics briefing room

• Virginia Economy
• Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Virginia Economy at a Glance
• Cooper Center
• News Letter on "Recent Developments in the Virginia Economy"
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Regional Economic Conditions
• Virginia Business Magazine Online
• Virginia Employment Commission
• Current Labor Market Information
• Virginia Economic Indicators

• Wholesale Trade
• Bureau of the Census
• Census of Wholesale Trade
• 1997 Census of Wholesale Trade
• 1992 Narrative
• 1992 Table
• 1992 State and county detailed information

Select state or locality, submit query; next, choose "wholesale trade" from the pop-up list and "get the above selected report."

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