Business & Economics Web Resources

2002 NAICS and 1987 SIC Correspondence Tables
Converts from the old industry group coding system to the new (or vice versa)

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Trends, demographics and analysis related to U.S. employment: productivity, occupational safety & health, industries, imports/exports, and more

County Business Patterns
County, state, and national level business data from the U.S. Economic Census

Economic Time Series Page
Current statistics for many government indicators such as the CPI, PPI, Trade and Imports/Exports, and even weekly gasoline prices

Hoover's Online
We don't subscribe, but you can still find some good basic company information here

Small Business State Profiles
Baseline statistics on each state's small business economy: number of firms, small business income, industrial composition, job growth and data on minority and women-owned businesses

What is a dollar worth?
Calculates the difference in a dollar’s purchasing power between any two years you specify (from 1913 on)

World Bank
“Working for a world free of poverty”

Yahoo! Finance
Also mutual funds, money management basics. Oriented to the layperson.

 

03-JAN-2006 LGC

 


Updated 23-May-2007 SJM