Business Resources: Statistics

Provides access to a huge number of key economic time series data, with a special emphasis on forecasting data. This site was started help students in an Applied Forecasting class who needed easy access to large amounts of data.

Taken every 5 years the Economic Census provides statistical data on U.S. industries as a whole and industries within a geographic area; industries are classified primarily by NAICS

The FedStats website (Webpage 1) was removed and does not appear to be available
anywhere on the federal government’s Web domain at this time. All FedStats domain
URLs now redirect to the homepage of the NCES version of the FCSM website at the
URL https://nces.ed.gov/FCSM/index.asp.

Produced by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The Industry Economics Division's Information Guide is a convenient way of accessing BEA materials on gross domestic product by industry and more.

Retail sales and inventories by business industry.

Latest edition online is 2012 (published August 2011). Provides data on population, vital statistics, health, law enforcement, education, politics, and other areas of general interest. Look at the source of the data to get more detailed information.
Starting with the 2013 edition, this has been published by ProQuest. The Caltech Library has the 2017 edition in print.

Small Business Administration page pointing to government statistics for specific industries including Banking, Energy and Environment.

Some datasets are free, others require a subscription.

This site presents the official data, definitions, methodologies and sources for more than 60 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development Goals around the world.

Publicly-available statistical data on the world's countries, on everything from crime to education, the economy, demographics and more, and allows users to choose a country and/or a set of statistics to graph a comparison between designated countries.

Produced by the OECD. Only a selection of sections available online. For all sections use the 2005 edition available in Caltech Hall Library, Basement, HC10 .I6224 2005