This guide created by the Library's Business Subject Specialist includes in-depth look at the most important library resources for business statistics.

Includes gross domestic products (GDP) and other economic data from the Bureau of Economics.

This survey focuses upon the buying habits of U.S. consumers, including information on various income, expenditures, and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics.

The Economic Census is the U.S. Government's official five-year measure of American business and the economy. It is conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, and response is required by law.

Includes tables that provide over thirty years of historical data.

Metropolitan Area Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates
Current 2006 edition. Searchable by State and selected cities.

The OES produces employment and wage estimates for over 800 occupations. These are estimates of the number of people employed in certain occupations, and estimates of the wages paid to them. These estimates are available for the nation as a whole, for individual States, and for metropolitan areas; national occupational estimates for specific industries are also available.

Official website for the Department of Occupational Safety and Health. Allows search of SIC codes by keyword.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has created tables based on 2000 Census for U.S. states, metropolitan areas and counties.

Monthly reports on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers for a representative basket of goods and services.

Provides data are used to satisfy economic policy needs and for market analysis, forecasting, and decision-making in the private sector.

Search or browse listings of 363 Internet sites of numeric Social Science statistical data, data catalogs, data libraries, social science gateways, addresses and more.

Published monthly by the Council of Economic Advisors for the Joint Economic Committee, provides economic information on GDP, income, employment, production, business activity, prices, money, credit, security markets, Federal finance, and international statistics.

Provides releases and historical data.

Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) provides over 19,599 U.S. economic time series. With FRED® you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series.

Contains time series data from 1948. Includes Country, World, and Commodity Prices Tables. Economic Concept View provides a cross-country view of the concepts in the IFS by individual or groups of countries.

Nationally representative study of nearly 8,000 U.S. families. Following the same familes since 1968, the PSID collects information on economic, health and social behavior.

Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment,

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.

Features statistics on unemployment, productivity, and consumer price index from the Bureau of Labor.

Child Care & Early Research Connections is a free online resource with full text research and datasets related to child care and early education. The collection includes scholarly research, policy briefs, government reports, data, and instruments from a variety of professional sources and federal agencies.

The primary purpose of the Digest of Education Statistics is to provide a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. SuDoc: ED 1.140.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.

provides a compilation of statistical information covering the broad field of American education from prekindergarten through graduate school. 1990-

ESTA also develops and manages databases on economic, social and development cooperation statistics in Africa in collaboration with the Bank’s regional member countries as well as regional and international agencies such as the ECA, the IMF, the OECD, the UN, and the World Bank. This makes the AfDB the primary source of relevant, reliable and timely data on African development processes, starting with the data generated from its current management of the Africa component of the International Comparison Program (ICP-Africa).

A unit of the U.S. Department of Justice whose principal function is the compilation and analysis of data and the dissemination of information for statistical purposes.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.

This resource captures the data, techniques, theories, designs, applications, histories, and implications of assigning numerical values to social phenomena.

Eurostat's mission: to be the leading provider of high quality statistics on Europe. Eurostat is the statistical office of the European Union situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.

The General Social Survey (GSS) conducts basic scientific research on the structure and development of American society with a data-collection program designed to both monitor societal change within the United States and to compare the United States to other nations.

Designed to give users a variety of means to search and navigate the vast amount of data. Users can create custom tables; merge columns from multiple tables to create custom tables, which can also be downloaded, printed, or graphed.

Euromonitor International's Global Market Information Database provides global business intelligence on industries, countries, and consumers. It offers inegrated access to statistics, reports, insightful comment and business information sources.

One of the world's most widely respected independent nonprofit and nongovernmental organizations. Reports and collected data are created for studies of the environment, human health, policy, media, journalism, education, and elections.

The United Nations provides free access to over 15 UN statistical databases.

The World Bank's Open Data initiative is intended to provide all users with access to World Bank data, according to the Open Data Terms of Use. The data catalog is a listing of available World Bank datasets, including databases, pre-formatted tables, reports, and other resourcesThe primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.