U.S. Statistics
This guide includes sources for demographic, financial, and economic statistics for the United States.
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Top Databases
Business Source PremierBSP provides coverage to virtually all subject areas related to business, including management, marketing, economics, finance, accounting, and international business. In addition to covering the major scholarly business journals, BSP also covers company reports, SWOT analyses, working papers, country reports, industry reports and other searchable categories like case studies, book reviews, product reviews, speeches, and interviews. This database is the exclusive online provider of many major journals like the Harvard Business Review, but it does not contain the fulltext of the Wall Street Journal (see Factiva for WSJ). [more]
DemographicsNow
Offers a variety of ready-made demographic data reports, which can be customized by geography. Identify patterns and trends regarding household expenditures, market penetration and location of goods and services. [more]
GMID: Global Market Information Database
Euromonitor's Global Market Information Database (GMID) contains 1M+ demographic, economic and marketing statistics for 205 countries. The historic and forecast data enable you to analyze trends from 1977-2016 with 6 years of historical data and 5 year forecasts. Unique country rankings help you to gauge one country's position in the world relative to another. For each country, GMID covers economic data, and, lifestyle indicators such as disposable income, consumer trends, eating and drinking habits, home ownership statistics and health data. It also includes 4,500 market research reports on industries, consumer lifestyles and retailing for 71 countries. [more]
MarketLine Business Information Center
Locate detailed company, industry, and country profiles published by Datamonitor Market Research. This database includes 10,000 reports on public and private companies, both U.S. and international. Reports feature: business description, history, major products and services, locations and subsidiaries, top competitors, SWOT analysis (top 1,000 companies only). The industry profiles contain: Market overview, value, segmentation, share, and forecasts, competitive landscape, and leading companies. Many industry reports include (Porter's) Five Forces analysis. [more]
TableBase
This easy-to-use database contains tables and text excerpted from numerous publications. Along with simple keyword searching, users can also limit searches by choosing from lists of concept terms, marketing terms, countries, industries, and document types. If you're looking for a ranking of products or companies in table format, this is a great resource to begin your search. You can select to view the table only- or you can select the full text article which includes the table within the context of the original article. [more]
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Books, Reference & Print Resources
Statistical Abstract of the United States REF
HA 202
Also available at: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
Also available at: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/
Business Statistics of the United States
REF HC 101 A13123
U.S. Economic Census data.
U.S. Economic Census data.
Consumer USA
REF HC 101 C744
United States consumer data.
United States consumer data.
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Internet Resources & Websites
American FactFinder U.S. Census data.
Stat USA
Business, trade and economic data.
American Religion Data Archives
Agricultural Statistics
Energy Administration Information
U.S. direct investment abroad (and vice versa), international transactions, data on multinational companies.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Although there is mostly domestic statistics, you will find some foreign labor statistics and import/export price indices.
CDC - Centers for Disease Control
Socioeconomic data on emerging economies.
U.S. Department of Commerce
Bureau of Economic Analysis - GDP, personal incomes, corporate profits, state and local incomes, industry output, industry GDP.
FRASER
The F ederal R eserve A rchival S ystem for E conomic R esearch includes current and historical data and statistics on the U.S. economy.
County and City Data Book
Economic and social statistics of counties and cities.
County and Zip Code Business Patterns
Industry economic data by U.S. county or zip code.
State Master
Budget of the United States
Current and historical data on imports and exports.
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