Finding Data and Statistics: Labor & Employment

Provides US economic data, including national, international, regional, industry, and supplemental data.

includes BLS databases by topic, including inflation & prices; employment; unemployment; productivity; workplace injuries; and more.

Includes the BEST (Basic Economic Security Tables) Index and Elder Economic Security Standard Index to measure the income needed by workers and their families for basic needs and the income needed to meet older adults' basic needs, respectively.

Allows users to download and analyze over 383,000 US and international time series.

Publications, researchers, statistics, and databases of the UN's International Labour Organization.

The ILO's central statistical database, providing cross-national statistics on the labor market. Includes country profiles, data, statistical briefs, and more.

Provided by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), the IDSC provides an array of datasets related to the workforce.

Dataset containing country-level data on 17 key indicators of the labor market since 1980.

Includes characteristics of the employed and unemployed; persons not in the labor force; multiple job-holders; weekly earnings; union affiliation; and more.

Longitudinal surveys of young men and women, designed to document the transition from school to work.

Occupational wage data for 161 occupations and 171 countries from 1983 - 2008 from ILOSTAT.

Datasets and statistics related to wages, the workforce, job quality, and more. Some data may be subscription-only.

Data on workers' taxes and social security contributions in OECD countries.

The longest running longitudinal household survey, this study began in 1958 and has collected data from 18,000 individuals within 5,000 families on employment, income, health, marriage, wealth, and more.

The SIPP gathers data on economic well-being, education, health insurance, childcare, family relationships, assets, and more, and measures how these variables change over time.

Search for data on US cash assistance programs based on policy categories, coverage, states, and years.