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Domestic & International Market Research Web Sites

Domestic and International Market Research Web Site
Prepared by Doris Jui, Business Librarian, University of Miami.

Country Profiles
Country Commercial Guides
http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/business/com_guides/2000/
These are reports prepared annually by U.S. embassies which present a comprehensive look at countries' commercial environments. The topics include economy, politics, trade regulations, investment climate, and the marketing of US products and services.

Library of Congress Country Studies
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/
Prepared by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress, these Country Studies describe and analyze the political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions of a particular country.

Yahoo! - Regional Countries
http://dir.yahoo.com/regional/countries/index.html
Yahoo provides users with an abundance of information on numerous countries.  Information such as population, economy, education, government, culture, media, news, and more.

Demographics
Ameri Stat
http://www.ameristat.org/   
Maintained by the Population Reference Bureau and the Social Science Data Analysis Network, provides users with U.S. population data such as marriage, family, education, race and ethnicity.

American Demographics
http://www.demographics.com/
The American Demographics magazine provides access to its latest month's articles on market news and consumer profiles.

CIA World Factbook Country Guides
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/country.html
This web site contains worldwide country profiles. The profiles provide information pertaining to population, age structure, immigration rate, literacy rate, ethnic groups, language, geography, people, government, economy,  communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues.

Statistical Abstract of the United States

http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html
This web site includes statistical data on population, education, health, personal consumption expenditure by product category, personal income by state, household income, CPI for selected items (food, apparel, alcoholic beverages, housing, ...), and more.

Embassies
Embassies of Washington, D.C.
http://www.embassy.org/embassies/index.html
Obtain directory information on each of the embassies located in Washington, D.C.

Embassy Web
http://www.embpage.org/
Retrieve the address, telephone and e-mail address of over 50,000 diplomatic posts worldwide. 

Expenditure
Consumer Expenditure Surveys
http://stats.bls.gov/csxhome.htm
Retrieve average annual expenditures from various categories such as food, alcoholic beverages, housing, apparel, services, transportation, health care, entertainment, personal care products, education, tobacco, personal insurance, pensions and more.

Foreign Language News
AILEENA Media Index
http://www.aileena.ch/aileena.htm
Written in the native language, one can retrieve national and regional news from newspapers across the world.

Europa
http://www.europa.eu.int/
Obtain news from native language webpages discussing recent events and issues on European Union countries

Market Research
Greenbook
http://www.greenbook.org/
Supplies a listing of market research companies worldwide.

Market Research Reports
http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/bi18355e.html
Strategis provides users with free historical Market Research Reports from Stat-USA.

McKinsey Quarterly
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/regform1x.asp
Provides registered users with free full-text articles on a variety of industries.

Nielsen Media Research
http://tv.zap2it.com/news/ratings/
Provides the current and historical television ratings.

Statistics
Regional Economic Information System (REIS)
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/reis/index.html
REIS provides economic data on a national, regional, state, county, or metropolitan level.  Statistics cover personal income and earning variables, full- and part-time employment variables, transfer payments variables, and farm income and expenses variables since 1969.

Statistical Abstract of the United States
http://www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html
This web site includes statistical data on population, education, health, personal consumption expenditure by product category, personal income by state, household income, CPI for selected items (food, apparel, alcoholic beverages, housing, ...), and more.

Statistical Data Locator
http://www.ntu.edu.sg/library/stat/statdata.htm
Use this web page to link to a variety of worldwide sites containing statistical data.  Information varies on each country from Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and North America.  Generally, population, vital statistics, ethnicity, economic indicators, and trade data can be found.

U.S. Census Bureau American Factfinder
http://factfinder.census.gov/java_prod/dads.ui.homePage.HomePage
Select data tabulations and maps from the data sets provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.  Data files contain statistics on community demographic profiles, housing, and industries which can be downloaded into text or spreadsheet format.

Trade Statistics
http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/industry/otea/
The Office of Trade and Economic Analysis, an office run by the U.S. Department of Commerce, provides users with a wide variety of trade data.  This includes import/export, investment spending, trade outlook, and more.

Surveys
Princeton Survey Research Center
http://www.princeton.edu/~abelson/index.html
Princeton University provides users with a links from numerous sources.  Topics include polls, surveys, demographics, associations, policy analysis and more.