Industry Statistics 

This guide provides a list of resources that either contain industry statistics or lead you to resources that provide industry statistics.   For additional resources, consult the Government Publications, Maps and Law Library's Statistics guides, the Industry Overview or the Rankings resources.

Search the JHU Catalog for various official statistical yearbooks, published by particular countries, are located in General Reference and in Government Publications.

Print Resources:

Business Statistics of the United States
Government Publications HC 101.A13122

County Business Patterns
Government Publications C 3.204/
Online version

European Marketing Data and Statistics
General Reference HA 1107.E87

International Marketing Data and Statistics
General Reference HA 42.I56

Manufacturing & Distribution USA
General Reference HD 9721.M364
Provides much data on industries, including regional information and lists of the leading companies.  Organized by industrial classification codes.

Manufacturing and Distribution USA 4th ed 2006  (All US JHU)

Electronic Databases (JHU Accounts only):

Bloomberg Financial Service (Designated terminal, JHU faculty and students only)

Trade or professional associations often compile statistics or provide news or trends for a given industry.  Use the databases below to identify key associations by industry.

Encyclopedia of Associations: International Organizations   (Sheridan & SAIS)

Search on your industry or product to identify professional associations that might compile statistics on that industry or publish trade periodicals or reports for that sector.

LexisNexis Statistical  (All US JHU)

Search on your industry within either tables or abstracts.  Useful for identifying statistics within trade journals for particular industries.  Note the document number and request it from the staff in Government Publications to view the full-text.

Wharton Research Data Service (JHU faculty and graduate students for academic research only)  (All US JHU)

JHU faculty and staff can register for a WRDS account and use the Global Insight database to obtain exchange rates and financial statistics and industry statistics for various countries

Web Sites:

Census Bureau Economic Programs

County Business Patterns

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Survey of Current Business


Other Industry-Specific Resources:

Specific reference books that list information resources, associations, web sites, and conferences, which might provide statistics for particular industries, include:

Encyclopedia of Business Information Sources
General Reference HF5353.E9

Directory of Business Information Resources
General Reference HF54.52.U5 D567

Try a web search on your particular industry and combine with the term statistics (e.g. computer printer market; candy and statistics).    
    
    
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