1. Use your articles to find how and where the authors got and created their datasets.

2. Think about who cares about statistics and data for your topic

search for associations . ex. brewery associations

limit search to domains,  ex.  site://brewersassociation.org data
limit to Federal Government , largest publishers in the world,

3. Look at dataset collections

What government, agency or organization might collect data on your topic?

Consider the time period - current or historical, and the format - table to print or data to download. 

• Data.gov - download and mine datasets
• Bureau of Economic Analysis - national and state-local level data: GDP, consumption expenditure, personal income, investment, and international transactions; also data on various topics
• Bureau of Labor Statistics - data on employment & unemployment, wages, and prices, at both the national and sub-national levels also there - the Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web
• Census Bureau Economic Information - economic census and economic indicators
• Economic Report of the President - access to:
  1) current and foreseeable trends, annual numeric goals concerning employment, unemployment, production, real income, and the labor force
  2) annual numeric goals
  3) a program for carrying out program objectives.
• Population Reference Bureau
• County Business Patterns - county-level data on employees and establishments by industry

Specialized

• Energy Information Administration - energy statistics including nuclear energy, oil, electricity, and gas prices; some international data
• Internal Revenue Service Tax Statistics - reports and spreadsheets for taxes and income.
• Business and Industrial R&D - R&D expenditures and trends in US industries
• Federal Housing Finance Agency Housing Price Index - a quarterly index of prices for single-family houses since 1975; date for U.S., individual states, and regions.

• ALFRED (ArchivaL Federal Reserve Economic Data)
• Chicago Fed National Activity Index - a "85 existing monthly indicators of national economic activity ... in 4 catagories:
     production and income;
     employment, unemployment, and hours;
     personal consumption and housing;
     and sales, orders, and inventories."
  Data from a precursor are available at this site.
• Fed In Print - Federal Reserve Economic Research
• Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED II) - time-series data for variables such as
   monetary aggregates, interest rates, exchange rates, banking, GDP, and consumer prices;
  1950's onwards with some prior to WWII