LibGuides: Marketing LibGuide: Stats & Financials

Business Statistics

Business Patterns
"These data include counts of establishments by the employment size of the establishment" for the U.S., states, metropolitan areas, micropolitan areas, counties, and zip codes.
Survery of Business Owners
Provides "information about characteristics of... businesses and their owners."
Doing Business
"The Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms in 189 economies and selected cities at the subnational level" (Doingbusiness.org)

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"Statista.com is one of the first statistic portals in the world to integrate data on over 80.000 topics from over 22,500 sources onto a single professional platform. Categorized into 21 market sectors, Statista.com provides companies, business customers, research institutions, and the academic community with direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets," (Statista.com).

RMA annual statement studies by Robert Morris Associates
Call Number: Reserve
Publication Date: 2019
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Bizstats
Provides financial benchmark and profitability for numerous industries, with emphasis on small business.
Yahoo!Finance: Industry Center
Free financial ratios divides by sector and industry. Basic ratios for about 100 companies, with data provided by Reuters. Only current ratios are available.
Quarterly Financial Report (Census Bureau)
Estimates of industry financials, including selected financial and operating rations (i.e. ROA, ROE). Data for 34, primarily manufacturing, industries.