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Business & Economics Web Resources

** = Recommended for Bus 121 Feasibility Study research

NAICS **
North American Industry Classification System: categories of business used by federal agencies in order to collect, analyze and publish statistical data related to the U.S. economy

Annual Survey of Manufactures **
Provides sample estimates of statistics for all manufacturing establishments with one or more paid employee.

American Community Survey **
Socioeconomic estimates for cities, counties, states, and other population groups.

Bureau of Economic Analysis (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)

• BEARFACTS **
  Narratives for state, county and metropolitan area statistics and personal income estimates.

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

• Consumer Expenditure Survey **
  Buying habits of American consumers, including data on expenditures, income, and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics
• Consumer Price Indexes
  Inflation and consumer spending
• Producer Price Indexes
  Changes in the selling prices received by domestic producers of goods and services

Economic Census **
Profiles U.S. business every 5 years, from the national to the local level.

• Business and Industry data - by geographic region
  State, metro area and county level: total number of businesses with or without paid employees and/or owned by minorities or women; shows total number of employees, establishments, annual payroll, and sales figures for broad industry classifications
• County Business Patterns **
  County-level data: total number of establishments, employment, and payroll by detailed industry groupings
• Economic Fact Sheets - by industry **
  Nationwide numbers for detailed industry groupings: number of establishments; total sales, shipments and receipts; total annual payroll and and total number of employees
• Industry Ratios **
  Similar to economic fact sheets but shows numbers as per-establishment, per-capita, per-employee, per million residents, etc.

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”

Worldometers
“World statistics updated in real time"

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