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DEMOGRAPHICS & CONSUMER BEHAVIOR
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BUSINESS DEMOGRAPHICS
This section includes information such as corporate density within a given geographic area, number of stores of a given company within a given geographic area, company size, and employee related statistics.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
US Labor Department
Various statistics and reports on labor related topics, such as business cost, salary and wages, employee benefits, and occupational outlook and projections. - Business and Industry
Business economic statistics by geography, sector, and frequency. - Site Selection
Valuable tool for finding the perfect site for your business. Although no mapping tools are available, Site Selection offers querying tools and provides a host of demographic and economic data of U.S. counties and cititeis to help the businessperson make the right choice. - Super Yellow Pages
Useful for screening small businesses.
- U.S. County Business Patterns
US Census Bureau, published annually
Economic data by industry in smaller areas of the country.
CONSUMER DEMOGRAPHICS
- American Factfinder
Maintained by the U.S. Census Bureau, American FactFinder is the source for population, housing, economic and geographic data from Census 2000. - U.S. Census Bureau
Demographic characteristics, total population, and social and economic census data for the U.S. and international locations. Useful in determining market size.
To generate data by subject, ethnic groups, or geographical locations use the Data Sets. - World Development Indicators
Country demographic information at the national level. - Demographic and Social Statistics
United Nations
Demographic characteristics of countries. -
International Data Base (IDB)
US Census Bureau
Statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world. - International Statistical Agencies
US Census Bureau
List of statistical agencies from different countries for local demographics.
CONSUMER LIFESTYLES & BUYING POWER
- Encyclopedia of American Industries
DOCS REF HC 102.E53 2001 [On Business Index Table]
Brief (1-10 pages) descriptions on a wide variety of industries. Includes information on an industry's background and development, and descriptions of industry leaders.
- Encyclopedia of Emerging Industries
DOCS REF HD 2324 .E528 [On Business Index Table]
Details the inception, emergence, and current status of 108 newly flourishing U.S. industries and industry segments. - Market Share Reporter
DOCS REF HF 5415.2 .M37 [On Business Index Table]
Covers both international and U.S. market shares with over 3,600 entries, each with a descriptive title, data and market description, list of producers/products with their market share, numerous graphics, and more.
- IBISworld
IBISWorld covers thousands of industries in the United States economy at the 5-digit NAICS code level. Reports include market characteristics, segmentation, industry conditions, industry performance, key competitors, key success factors, and outlook. IBISWorld also has extensive coverage of industries in the Asia/Pacific region with reports covering China, Australia and Indonesia. - Mintel Reports
Provides research reports on European,UK, and US consumer markets. The reports analyze market drivers, sizes and trends, market segmentation, along with consumer attitudes and purchasing habits. Covers food, beverage, apparel, beauty and personal, retail, travel and more. Users will need to create a profile with their uoregon.edu email address to use the database. - Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage
Provides detailed descriptions of companies, industries, and mutual funds. Company information includes a description of the company, stocks & bond issues, earnings estimates, dividend and split history and more. The Industry Surveys cover broad views of industries in the U.S. and international regions, including their trends, forecasts, major players and market share data, key ratios, statistics, and internal and external issues affecting the industries. - TableBase
Provides statistics related to market size and share, budget/expenditures, company and brand rankings, and more.
ASSOCIATIONS & ORGANIZATIONS
- Association for Consumer Research (ACR)
Provides free access to newsletter, papers, and presentations from conferences, and ACR-Listserv.
FINDING ARTICLES
To find journal, or magazine, or newspaper articles, search the following databases:
- Academic Search Premier
Offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,880 journals covering areas in social sciences, humanities, general science, and education. Provides full text for nearly 1,380 journals. - Business Source Premier
Full text from nearly 930 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and much more. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 1,570 journals.
- JSTOR: Electronic Journal Archive
A fully searchable electronic database that contains the scanned images of over 100 major research journals in a variety of academic disciplines including business and economics, some of which began publication as early as the 1870s. - Lexis Nexis Academic
Comprehensive coverage of current news, business and company information, government and legal information. - Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition)
The Wall Street Journal, the financial newspaper of record, is an indispensable source for business professionals, providing business and financial news coverage, personal and company profiles, feature reporting, special reports, and regular columns. The database provides the full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal going back to at least 1986, with some material from earlier years. It includes the entire text of written articles, but no graphs or data, such as stock prices.
Last Modified: 03/11/2008