Business: Databases

Provides data on employment, wages and productivity, and working conditions.

Information on careers, including job descriptions, growth projections, qualifications, and salary expectations.

An agency of the US Department of Commerce. It has data about growth, inflation, trade, and industrial contributions to economic output.

Information about business formation. BFS gives an early look at business formation activity within the U.S. at a detailed state and regional levels.

Information for companies looking to expand internationally, including economic conditions, trade regulations, and best opportunities in foreign markets.

The SEC oversees the securities markets in the U.S., ensuring transparency, protecting investors, and maintaining fair practices. Companies that trade on exchanges must file annual and quarterly reports called 10-K's and 10-Q's, respectively.

A guide to reading 10-K and 10-Q reports, courtesy of the Securities and Exchange Commission

ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is a comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.

IBISWorld provides a large collection of Industry Market Research. US Industry Analysis, Business Environment Profiles, and Segment Benchmarking.

Searchable index and abstracts for more than 100,000 United States government and privately published statistical sources. Many statistics are available in tables or spreadsheets, and others can be accessed via linked documents.

Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 full text news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.

Statista integrates data on over 80,000 topics from over 18,000 sources onto a single platform. Categorized into 21 market sectors, Statista.com provides direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.

The OECD iLibrary indexes books, papers, statistics, glossaries, and the OECD Factbook, published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Many OECD publications in the database are freely available to read online in PDF or other formats. Publications not available online may be requested via Interlibrary Loan or suggested for purchase.

Not to be confused with the OECD, the OEC specializes in ease of use and presenting data with infographics. Most statistics are from COMTRADE - a division of the United Nations.

Provides specific U.S. export and import information on more than 18,000 commodities world wide. Includes 2- through 10- digit HS detail for both import and export commodities including: monthly data dating back to January 2002, cumulative year to date data dating back to 2002, annual data dating back to 1992, and district-level data.

The Roper iPoll archives can be useful in analyzing social trends based on opinion polling.

Numeric data base of U.S. Census population totals for Maine cities, towns, and counties, from each census, from 1790 to present.

This collection consists exclusively of documents generated by town governments in the state of Maine, dating from 1827 to the present.

Free website with resources to easily produce graphs and charts in a variety of formats.