Data Links

These links are provided for the convenience of UW students and others. No warranty is expressed or implied.

Downloadable Data, etc.

Metropolitan Data Spreadsheet (Lotus WK1,500kb) This file is a potpourri of population, housing, and urban development data by metropolitan area. Includes hedonic housing price indexes from Malpezzi, Chun and Green (1998), and our MSA level regulatory indexes.

Metropolitan Data in DBASE Same as above, but in DBASE III

Metropolitan Data in Excel Same as above, but in Excel 97

Small State Spreadsheet (Here for students, just contains a few variables we play around with)

Small State Data in DBASE

Introductory Sample SAS Program that reads the DBASE version of the metro database and performs some simple statistical analyses. (We use this program to teach SAS basics, the "model" is pretty simple and not meant to be state of the art).

Intermediate Sample SAS Program that reads DBASE version of metro and state data, merges them, and demonstrates inter alia regression diagnostics, data reshaping, PROC IML, and macros.

Comments on SAS and Research Computing (See above; while we're on the subject of SAS. In Word.)

Economic Report of the President: Statistical Tables (Lotus). The ERP is published every February. The first half of the book is the Administration's take on current economic developments, and an evaluation of their economic stewardship. (They usually find they're doing a great job). The second half is a set of invaluable time series data, mostly annual, most from around 1959 to date. Variables include GNP and its components, interest rates, prices, income, investment, and many others. Recommended.

U.S. Metropolitan Area Maps

The pies on these maps are proportional to the variable in question..

Map of the 1990 Population of U.S. Metropolitan Areas 
 
U.S. County Maps

(You can find Wisconsin counties mapped separately on the Wisconsin page.)

U.S. Counties: Annual Population Change, 1980-1990

U.S. Counties: Annual Population Change, 1990-1995

U.S. Counties: Population Density

U.S. Counties: Percent Urban

U.S. Counties: Labor Productivity

U.S. Counties: Percent Multifamily Housing

U.S. Counties: Percent Manufactured Housing

U.S. Counties: Median Gross Rent

U.S. Counties: Owners Median House Price

U.S. Counties: Annual Real House Price Change, 1980-1990

U.S. Counties: Annual Nominal Income Per Capita Growth, 1980-1990

U.S. Counties: Average Annual Building Permits, 1990-1995

Basic MSA Data, 1969-94

Employment, Income and Population in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Summary of BEA Data (By Stephen Malpezzi and Yu-Yun Yang) summarizes BEA data on employment, population, and real income per capita, for each MSA. The paper is downloadable in Adobe Acrobat's PDF Format immediately below. Each file is about 1.4 mb.

You need Adobe Acrobat to read these. If you don't have it, click here for a free download.

Part I: Text, and Summary Statistics

Part II: Employment Graphs (1 Graph for Each MSA)

Part III: Real Income Per Capita Graphs

Part IV: Population Graphs

Interim Bibliography on Urban Development

Stephen Malpezzi maintains a database with several thousand references on real estate, urban development, and related topics. Here we've placed several topical sections, in WordPerfect 5.1 (readable by any word processor).

Real Estate, and Real Estate Finance

Housing

Land

Location and Transportation

Urban Development

International Economic Development

World Bank and other Development Assistance
 

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