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Best Web Sites for Statistics

Business

• Business Expenditures Survey (http://www.census.gov/csd/bes/)
  Provides operating expenses for retail, wholesale merchants, or selected service industries.

   

• Bureau of Economic Analysis (http://www.bea.gov/)
  Provides GDP and economic accounts data.

   

• Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov/)
  Provides comprehensive statistics data in the broad field of economics and statistics.

   

• CenStats Databases (http://censtats.census.gov/)
  Seven databases available: Building Permits, Census Tract Street Locator, County Business Patterns, Detailed Occupation by Race, Hispanic Origin and Sex International Trade Data, Public Law 94-171 Data, and USA Counties.

   

• Consumer Expenditure Survey (http://www.bls.gov/cex/home.htm)
  Provides information on the buying habits of American consumers, including data on their expenditures, income, and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics.

   

• Economic Indicators (http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/briefroom/BriefRm)
  Provides U.S. economic data such as Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders, Construction Spending, New Home Sales, Homeownership and more.

   

• Economic Surveys (http://www.census.gov/main/www/sur_econ.html)
  Census Bureau ECONOMIC SURVEYS on Advance Monthly Retail Sales, Annual Capital Expenditures, Annual Retail Trade Survey, and more.

   

• Foreign Trade Statistics (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www/index.html)
  Statistics on current and historical foreign trade data.

   

• State & County QuickFacts (http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/)
  "Quick, easy access to facts about people, business, and geography."

   

• Statistics About Business Size (http://www.census.gov/epcd/www/smallbus.html)
  Statistics on employers and nonemployers, employment size of firms, employment size of establishments, receipts size of firms, and legal form of organization.

   

• Statistics of U.S. Businesses (http://www.census.gov/csd/susb/susb.htm)
  Data include number of firms and establishments, employment, and annual payroll.

   

• Statistical Abstract of the United States (http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/)
  A well-indexed, comprehensive collection of statistics in tabular format. Includes basic statistics for a wide range of economic indicators. The index leads to specific table numbers. Each table lists the source of the statistics for further reference.

   

• Surveys of Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (http://www.census.gov/csd/mwb)
  Data include number of firms, sales and receipts, paid employees, and annual payroll, presented by geographic area, industry, firm size, and legal form of organization.

General Statistics Sites

• Population Reference Bureau (http://www.prb.org/)
  Information on population and the environment.

• EDGAR Online (http://www.edgar-online.com/)
  Said by Business Week to be the best interface to the SEC filings. Free registration required.

   

• Statistical Resources on the Web (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html)
  Comprehensive, annotated directory of the best resources for statistics on the Web. From the University of Michigan.

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