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Business Statistics Research Guide

Macroeconomics

• State Sales Taxes
  • http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/sales.html
• GDP
  • http://www.census.gov/statab/www
  • Mini Historical Statistics
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
  • http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html
  • Statistics on various topics such as population, education, industrial outlook, etc.
  • Searchable by table number or interactive index by letter.
  • AIKEN Reference (Library Use Only) --- HA202.S65
• U.S. Census Bureau
  • http://www.census.gov
  • Searchable by Subject A to Z
  • Example: T (Taxes)
    1. State Government Tax Collections
    2. Related Links: Federation of Tax Administrators
    3. State Comparisons
• U.S. Department of Labor
  • http://www.bls.gov
  • aka Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • Example: Industries
    1. Employment, Hours, and Earnings
• Economic Report of the President
  • http://w3.access.gpo.gov/eop/
  • Searchable by keywords
  • Statistical tables in spreadsheet format
• Bureau of Economic Analysis
  • http://www.bea.gov
  • GNP, Fixed Assets
  • National, Regional, Industry, and International Economic Data
• Statistical Resources on the Web
  • http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
  • Searchable on many topics
  • Ex: Business and Industry, Consumers, Labor
• How to Download Data & Save it in Excel
  • In the U.S. Census, look for Print/Download at the top and then you can choose to have it downloaded into an Excel worksheet. But you must save it to a disk.
  • The other websites have similar options to download information.
• Additional questions regarding the above information, should be directed to Paul Lewis, Documents Librarian, 641–3320 or paull@usca.edu.

Last modified on: April 26, 2007, at 05:24 AM