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Market-Level Economic Base
Research Sources
(Source:
Journal of Real Estate Literature, Vol. 9, Num. 2, 2001, pp. 177-191)
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DEMOGRAPHY
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Historical Counts
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| Decennial
Census of population and housing Characteristics
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This
website provides 100% count of population and housing subjects.
Population items tabulated include age, race, sex, marital
status, origin, household type and household relationship. Housing
items would include tabulated data contains occupancy-vacancy
status, tenure, units in structure, value, contract rent, meals, and
number of rooms in housing units. |
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Current Estimates and Forecasts |
| SMART
Marketing Technologies, LLC. |
This
site offers online demographic reports based on ring or drive time,
or designated market area. Data ranges from detailed demographic
market report to consumer expenditure summary report and income
distributions report. |
| Geonomics,
Inc
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This
site offers integrated advanced spatial data processing with
comprehensive datasets that allow users to truly take advantage of
what has become state of the art in mapping. Data will cover census
(1970, 1980, 1990), consumer expenditures, weather risk, crime risk,
climate, lifestyle segmentation to consumer behavior. |
| Bamberg-Handley,
Inc |
This
site displays geodemographic and household expenditure data for the
US, Puerto Rico and various other countries. For Example, current
estimate of household expenditures for over 750 products for every
Block Group, Tract, Zip Code, County and State in the US. |
| CACI
Marketing Systems |
CACI's
geodemographis databases include businesses, shopping centers,
lifestyles, purchase potential, traffic volumes, crime, and so on.
Coverage provided for the US and Europe. Products designed for
retail planning, site modeling, and customer profiling. |
| Compusearch |
Compusearch
provides micromarketing data on Canadian businesses and households,
including lifestyle segmentation profiles (LSPs), current
geodemographics, behavioral data, and current street, boundary and
postal code files. |
| Donnelley
Marketing |
Donnelley
Marketing is a provider of consumer and business information and
marketing solutions. In July of 1999, it became a wholly owned
subsidiary of InfoUSA. In September 1999, InfoUSA integrated three
of its operating subsidiaries: Database America, Walter Karl and
Donnelley Marketing, to create one business unit, Donnelley
Marketing. Data coverage includes consumer mailing lists, and
geodemographics. |
| Population
Estimates-National |
The
Population Estimates Program produces estimates for the US areas
within the US and Puerto Rico. Data coverage includes total monthly
population, annual population estimates, and quarterly population
estimates. |
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Population
Estimates-State |
Total
population and growth, estimates by age and sex, and estimates by
race and Hispanic origin. Also includes demographic components of
change. |
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Population
Estimates-County |
Total
population estimates and growth, estimates by age and sex, and
estimates by race and Hispanic origin. Contains tables for different
age groupings as well as single year of age. |
| County
Statistics |
Summary
of demographic and economic data by county and state, including
census year and projections. |
| State
& Metropolitan Area Data Book |
The
data book contains a collection of statistics on social and economic
conditions in the United States at the State and metropolitan area
levels. Selected data for component counties and central cites of
metropolitan areas are also included. |
| Claritas |
Provides
customer targeting and marketing analysis resources for companies
engaged in consumer & business-to-business marketing. |
| Equifax/National
Decision Systems |
Consumer's
income, debt and credit history, including how a consumer has paid
credit accounts in the past; used as guide to determine whether the
consumer is likely to pay accounts on time in the future. |
| Experian
Information Solutions, Inc |
Experian
is a credit reporting company, and offers fraud protection services,
and prospect list generation. Key data includes Real Estates
reports, business public records and credit reports. |
| WEFA |
WEFA
is a provider of global economic information, offering data on the
reshaping of world economies, privatization, globalization,
declining trade barriers, etc. Key data includes market potential
and segmentation analysis allowing the determination of size of
market by industry, and consumer segmentation, etc. |
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THE ECONOMY
| Employment and Other Economic Indicators |
| Economic
Census, Summary of National Statistics |
Displays
number of establishments, Sales or Receipts, and Annual Employment
Payroll by two-digit SIC codes. Key data includes 10-14 mineral
industries, 15-17 construction industries, 20-39 manufactures, 40-49
Transportation, communications and utilities, 50-51 wholesale trade,
52-59 Retail trade, 60-67 Financial, Insurance and Real Estate and
70-87 Services Industries (tax-exempt firms). |
| Employment
Projections |
The
Office of Employment Projections develops information about the
labor market for the Nation as a whole for 10 years in the future:
labor force trends by sex, race, or Hispanic origin, and age;
employment trends by industry and occupation; and the implications
of these data for employment opportunities for specific groups in
the labor force, such as youth, the disadvantaged, and college
graduates. Time span: 1998-2008 projections. |
| Woods
& Poole Economics, Inc. |
Independent
firm that specializes in long-term county economic and demographic
projections. Each year Woods & Poole updates its county database
and makes a new long-term projection. The Woods & Poole
projections are sold in a variety of printed books, on CD-ROMs, as
well as diskettes and magnetic tapes. Woods & Poole has been
producing long-term county projections since 1983. |
| RFA |
RFA
analyzes both U.S. macro economy and regional economies. They use
large macro econometric models that are said to integrate local and
regional data into the model. Projections are provided at the
regional and national levels. |
| Dun
& Bradstreet |
Provider
of survey data on U.S. and international business |
| InfoUSA.com |
ABII
has a database of 200 million consumers and 12 million business. |
| Industry
Labor and Multifactor Productivity |
Labor
productivity is a measure that relates output to the labor resources
expended in producing that output. It is a measure of the efficiency
with which labor is being utilized in production. This measure of
efficiency reflects improvements in techniques and organization of
production - technical change - and the effects of substituting
other inputs such as capital and intermediate purchases for labor in
the production process. |
| Local
Area Unemployment Statistics |
The
household survey measures the earnings of wage and salary workers in
all occupations and industries in both the private and public
sectors. Data refer to the usual earnings received from the worker's
sole or primary job. Data from the establishment survey generally
refer to average earnings of production and related workers in
mining and manufacturing, construction workers in construction and
non-supervisory employees in private service-producing industries. |
| Employment
Cost Index |
Quarterly
measures of change in total compensation, by SIC code, including
seasonally adjusted data |
| Current
Population Survey |
Number
of school years completed by the adult population. Decennial census
for all areas; annually for the U.S., states and a few large MSAs. |
| Other
Economic Indicators |
| Forecast
of Housing Activity |
New
housing activity and forecast |
| Census
of Governments |
To
provide periodic and comprehensive statistics about governments and
governmental activities. |
| 1992
Census of Transportation, Communications and Utilities |
To
provide periodic and comprehensive data about transportation,
communications, and utilities establishments and their activities. |
| Natural
Hazards Data Resources Directory from the National Geophysical Data
Center |
Geophysical
data. Natural hazards such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and
volcanoes affect both coastal and inland areas. |
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