Statistics Resources
- BizStatsProvides free, accurate business statistics, including industry financial benchmark reports and industry profitability risk data.
- Small Business Ratio CalculatorsRatios provide insight into every financial element in your company, from its profitability to the effectiveness of your accounts receivable department. We've put together calculators for some of the most commonly used business ratios.
- FedStatsFedStats supports a community of practice for over 100 agencies engaged in the production and dissemination of official federal statistics.
- Industry Statistics PortalProvides access to the Census Bureau programs that provide economic data for a user-selected industry.
Other Market Research Tools
- DataUSA.ioCounty and Metropolitan-Level data
- Google TrendsMarket interest trends. Narrow down to state, metro, and city levels.
Industry, Market, & Business Resources
This page provides links to proprietary research databases, government resources, and other valuable resources on finding industry, market, and business information and statistics.
Research Databases
- ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new window
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Includes numerous reports on a wide variety of industries and markets. - Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowContains industry reports, company reports, country reports, SWOT analyses, and more.
- Mergent Intellect (formerly Hoover's) This link opens in a new window
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A highly flexible web-based application that features a deep collection of worldwide business information that enables companies to generate insightful business intelligence. Mergent Intellect offers a unique opportunity to access private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more. - Mergent Archives (includes WebReports) This link opens in a new window
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Indexed collection of corporate and industry related documents. Containing more than 180,000 documents covering over 100 countries and industries including the Annual Report Collection: US Documents, Canadian Documents, International Documents as well as D&B Country Reports, RiskLine Reports, and Who owns Whom Collection. - Mergent Online This link opens in a new window
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Financial information services online, global business and financial information on public companies worldwide. Includes key business ratios as well. - NetAdvantage This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive source of business and investment information that offers online access to Standard & Poor's research-related products such as industry surveys, stock reports, corporation records, The Outlook, mutual fund reports and more. - Regional Business News This link opens in a new windowFull-text for regional business publications. Potentially useful when scouting your market.
- Statista This link opens in a new window
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A statistics portal that integrates statistical data from over 80,000 topics in areas such as business, education, finance, media, politics, society, and technology.
Free Market Resources
- Economic CensusThe Economic Census profiles the US economy every 5 years, from the national to the local level. The report will present national statistics for every sector and subsector of the economy
- Doing Business from the World BankThe Doing Business Project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 189 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level.
- County Business PatternsCounty Business Patterns is an annual series that provides subnational economic data by industry.
- YourEconomy.orgSponsored by the Edward Lowe Foundation, this site provides free data about business activity in localized areas.
- Regional Economic Conditions (RECON)Provides an economic overview by U.S. geographical area. Search for tables and charts by state, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), or county. Uses a shopping cart mechanism to choose the data you want, but the data is free.
Books
The Market Research Toolbox by Call Number: HF5415.2 .M383 2012ISBN: 9781412991735Publication Date: 2011-10-12
Handbook of Marketing Scales by Call Number: HF5415.3 .B323 2011ISBN: 9781412980180Publication Date: 2010
