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Comprehensive Industry Data

Business Travel Costs (Runzheimer International)

  • Inflation projections for air, lodging, meals, and ground transportation
  • Business travel costs for selected cities

Census Bureau

  • Data from the 1992 Censuses of agriculture,construction,manufactures,retail trade,wholesale trade, and service industries
  • See Economic Censuses on this web page for additional information
  • Establishments, employees, payrolls, and sales or shipments for NAICS industries
  • Most data for national and state levels; some county, metro area, and city data
  • Full text industry and geographic area series reports in pdf format
  • Data also available American Factfinder
  • List of two-digit NAICS codes and 1997 economic census reports from the Census Bureau's web site
  • Projected two digit equivalencies for the SIC number and corresponding report in the 1992 economic census
  • Searches Census CD-ROMS by geographic area, commodity or data set and displays specified data
  • Provides links to other data with common geography (e.g. a search of a street address identifies census tract and links to selected data)
  • Titles include the Annual Survey of Manufactures, Building Permits, Census Tract Street Locator, County Business Patterns, USA Counties, and Merchandise Foreign Trade

Current Industrial Reports

Dismal Scientist

  • Most current leading economic indicators, date of next release, analysis, and monthly figures for previous year
      - Includes consumer credit and confidence, prices, savings, housing starts, durable goods orders
      - Links to original government sources of the indicators
  • Forecasts of economic indicators for next two years (e.g. expected consumer price index)
  • 130 business, demographic, labor, income, real estate, and vital statistics variables for states
      - Examples are gross state product and health insurance coverage
      - May be viewed or states may be ranked
  • 60 demographic, labor, income, and real estate variables for 257 metropolian areas, which may be viewed or ranked
  • Extensive list of links to economic data

Economic Development Web Site (UMinn)

  • Charts compare national data sources (County Business Patterns, REIS, BLS) for subject coverage of employment and earnings factors and for usability
  • Links to state economic development data
  • Principles of economic development and data analysis

Economic Time Series (Ted Bos)

  • Monthly, quarterly and annual data often dating back to the 1940s
  • Economic indicators, corporate profits, index of industrial production, manufacturing orders, retail sales
  • Data in ASCII format for easy access but may also be manipulated

FedStats

  • Comprehensive listing to statistical programs of over 70 federal government agencies
  • Arranged by agency or program; includes explanatory material and contacts
  • Search engine indexes individual statistical tables by keyword or agency and provides direct connection

Government Information Sharing Project (Oreg.St.)

  • Census of Agriculture, Retail Trade, Manufactures, Minority-Owned Businesses et al. provide establishments and payrolls for up to four-digit industries for U.S., states, counties, MSAs and places of 2500+
  • U.S. Imports/Exports History, 1991-95
  • U.S.A. Counties (1969-94)
  • Regional Economic Information System (1969-94)
  • Choose a single geographic area by selecting text or clicking on a colorful map
  • May search variable by keyword or choose the default of "all data"

Gross Domestic Product (U.S.)

  • Value of goods and services produced within the United States
  • Data can be found in the Bureau of Economic Analysis and most web sites on this web page and the Comprehensive Economics Web Sites page and
  • Foreign data may be found in the Foreign Economics web page

Gross State Product

  • Value of goods and services produced by labor and property within a state
  • Bureau of Economic Analysis provides data by state and industry beginning 1977
  • Gross state product by broad industry sector also appears in Chapter 14, Income and Wealth, of Statistical Abstract of the United States

Minority and Women-Owned Business

  • National, state, county, metropolitan area and place data on all minority-owned businesses for 1997
  • Number of establishments, employment, and payrolls by two-digit SIC
  • Black, Asian, Hispanic, and Women business owners

Regional Economic Information System, 1969- (BEA)

  • Personal income by source, per capita income, income by two-digit SIC industry, full and part-time employment by industry, and regional economic profiles
  • Data for states, counties, and metropolitan areas 1969 to present

State of the Cities

  • Central city and metropolitan area data for over 300 areas in the U.S.
  • 1970, 1980 and 1990 Census data includes population, housing, occupation, income, education, poverty, race, and family characteristics
  • Labor force and unemployment data since 1990
  • Central city and metropolitan area data from County Business Patterns for 4-digit SIC industries
  • Choose file, then area, and then data table

State Personal Income, 1969-95 (UVa)

  • Personal income and fulltime/part-time employment by industry
  • Industries, data, and years available from pull-down menus