Data / Dataset Search - Social Sciences and Other Disciplines

► Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) Regional Economic Data Toolkit

• Designed to help researchers better understand economic development progress and policies by bring together four unique datasets: Cost of Living, State Incentives, State Expenditures, and the Diversity Index.
  TIPS: This is probably the best database to find data or datasets, current and archived, about cost of living.

► Statista

• https://www.statista.com/study/12396/cost-of-living-in-the-us-statista-dossier/
  U.S. annual consumer spending 2021, by type / U.S. Consumer Sentiment Index October 2021-2022 / U.S. inflation rate 1990-2022 / U.S. annual consumer expenditures 1990-2021/ U.S. annual percent change in consumer expenditure 1990-2021 and more.

► ICPSR

• Cost of Living Index for the American States, 1960-2003
  The authors constructed a state cost of living index for the 48 continental United States, measured annually for the period 1960 through 2003 (to update an index for 1960-1995 introduced in the authors' May 2000 Journal of Politics article).

Other Sources

• Google Dataset Search - Search results link
• US Census Bureau
  Data.census.gov is the data dissemination platform to access demographic and economic data from the U.S. Census Bureau.