Finding Data

Business data is the information collected in relation to a company and its operations. This data often informs businesses and organizations on executive decisions. 

There are many different aspects of business data such as sales, marketing, and production. There is no ONE SINGLE source for all business data. You will have to consult various sources to fill your needs.

Other Libguides:

Public Administration: Statistics

International Business Research

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Data

• OnTheMap for Emergency Management
  Business Data concerning natural disasters 

  • For tracking and reporting the GPD of retail, wholesale trade, building permits, imports, and exports. 

  • Assists in identifying vulnerabilities: social, economical, and environmental 

  • Provides data for nearly every sector

• Census Business Builder
  Provide selected demographic and economic data from the Census Bureau and puts it on a map

  • Collects data from the Census, Annual Business Survey, American Community Survey, and the Census of Agriculture. 

  • Can be used to assess the potential impact of disasters on surrounding communities.

• Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) Program
  program produces single-year estimates of income and poverty for all U.S. states and counties as well as estimates of school-age children in poverty for all 13,000+ school districts.

• Small Business Data
  Data on people, places, and businesses collected in censuses and surveys and through administrative records (e.g., birth certificates)

• Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) 
   a project by the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis. FRED collects over 200,000 U.S. and international economic time series, from 69 different sources, on a single website