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MGCS 5001 - Understanding China, 1700-2000: A Data-Analytic Approach: Search Tools

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Statistical Databases

CDMNext - Has millions of macro-economic time series and statistics from over 190 countries. In-depth data is available for China at national, provincial, city and county level.  Limit = 5 concurrent users at a time.

EIU.com - Full-text access to 10 titles from the Economist Intelligence Unit, covering a wide range of business information for 19 countries.  Searching by country, publication title or keyword is supported. Documents can be displayed in either HTML or PDF format with full images and graphics.

ICPSR - A vast research archive of more than 500,000 data files in social science. Available data can be browsed by topics including community and urban studies, education, geography and environment, social indicators and lots more

Passport -Provides volume and value sales statistics for consumer, industrial and services markets across 82 countries worldwide.

Statista: the Portal for Statistics - Gives you fast and reliable access to over a million market data series on 80,000 topics from 18,000 individual sources covering roughly 170 industry sectors.

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