Resource Guides: Business: Statistics

Statistical Sources

Agricultural Statistics Statistical compendium issued yearly by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, covering agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns.
U.S. Census Data U.S. Census Bureau's gateway to statistics from popular data resources including the Decennial Census, the American Community Survey, the Economic Census, the Annual Survey of Manufactures, and others.

usa.gov - Small Business Official business link to the U.S. Government.

Historical Statistics of the United States Historical Statistics of the United States is a 2006 Cambridge University Press publication and database that updates and expands the Census Bureau's 1975 work of the same name. It contains quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present. Also covers topics that received little or no coverage in the 1975 edition: American Indians, slavery, poverty, race, and ethnicity. Allows one to graph and combine data from different tables into custom tables, and to download tables for use in spreadsheets and other applications.

International Statistical Agencies Links to statistical information about the tiniest countries to the largest.

Statistical Abstracts of the United States through 2011 **The U.S. Census Bureau terminated the collection of data for the Statistical Compendia program effective October 1, 2011.** This electronic version of the Statistical Abstract provides access to approximately 1500 statistical tables drawn from published and unpublished data from federal agencies plus some state and private sources. Click Contents and Index to find specific tables. Use the Table of Contents to select tables from a list of broad topics (e.g. Population or Transportation). Use the Index A-Z to identify more specific topics (e.g. pets or jogging). Updated annually.
Thomas Register Directory of over 170,000 manufacturing companies in the United States and Canada. Includes over 70,000 product listings. The directory may be searched by company name, product or brand name. Requires free registration for access.
USPTO Web Patent Database For patents from 1976 to the present it provides searching by classification system, title and abstract words, inventor and company name and many other fields. For patents prior to 1976 you must search by patent number or the classification system. There is no searching by inventor or title for the older patents. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the Federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks.
USPTO Web Trademark Database Contains more than 3 million pending, registered and dead federal trademarks. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the Federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks.
World Bank Data Catalog Made available through the World Bank's Open Data initiative (data.worldbank.org), the World Bank Data Catalog serves as the access point to statistical databases and tables maintained by the World Bank. Resources include World Development Indicators, Global Development Finance, Global Economic Monitor, Millennium Development Indicators, and others.