Marketing Research Guide

Statistics found here include employment and unemployment rates, and consumer price index, wholesaler price index and producer price index, consumer expenditure, labor productivity and much more.

The American Time Use Survey provides information about "the amount of time people spend doing various activities, such as paid work, childcare, volunteering, and socializing."

The Consumer Expenditure Survey provides data about the buying habits of American consumers. It is the only Federal survey that provides information on the complete range of consumers' expenditures and incomes, and the characteristics of those consumers.

Data.census.gov is the platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau. The vision for data dissemination through data.census.gov is to improve the customer experience by making data available from one centralized place so that data users spend less time searching for data content and more time using it. For guidance on using data.census.gov, please see our Resources page at https://www.census.gov/data/adrm/what-is-data-census-gov.html.

Production and shipment reports for manufacturing industries. Not all industries are included and some information is only available as annual data.

Links to statistical tools and downloads that can be used to analyze census data.

From the U.S. Census Bureau. Released every five years, these reports provide a glimpse of industrial activity.

The U.S. Census Bureau site devoted to measuring the electronic economy.

U.S. Census Bureau. International Data Base includes demographic information, country rankings and populations information for countries worldwide.

The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.

Provides statistical data from over 100 government agencies. Access is available by agency or by topic.

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Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) promotes a better understanding of the U.S. economy by providing the timely, relevant, and accurate economic accounts data.

STAT-USA ceased operation in 2010, but links to the information in STAT-USA can be found in this guide.

The SOCDS provides data for individual metropolitan areas, central cities, and suburbs. Use the 'Quick Links' section to retrieve information first by state and then by city.

Commerce Department product that maps innovation by region. Ability to search by occupation or industry clusters. Data ends in 2011 so this is an aging product.

StatsAmerica is to provide actionable data for economic developers to use in site requests, developing metrics, grant writing and strategic planning. StatsAmerica is a service of the Indiana Business Research Center (IBRC) at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

National and international population, health and environmental information.

Contains over 825 annotated links to data-related social science related resources.

Nonpartisan site created by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to make government statistics easier to find and interpret.. Includes government finance data, population and demographics, and government impact.