Government data resources for business-including the Consumer Price Indexes, IRS
Bulletins, Small Business Association, Better Business Bureau. Find
more business resources under international business data, business
research guides, and much more.
Governmental Internet Resources
- Censtats
- Census Tract Street Locator, USA Counties 1996, 1994
County Business Patterns, U.S. Merchandise Trade (Password Required)
- Consumer
Price Indexes
- Price indexes are available for the U.S., the four
Census regions, size of city, cross-classifications of regions and
size-classes, and for 26 local areas. Indexes are available for major
groups of consumer expenditures (food and beverages, housing, apparel,
transportation, medical care, recreation,education and communications,
and other goods and services), for items within each group, and for
special categories, such as services. Monthly indexes are available for
the U.S., the four Census regions, and some local areas. More detailed
item indexes are available for the U.S. than for regions and local
areas.
- Daily
Treasury Statements (DTS)
- Daily Treasury Statements summarize the financial
activities of the Federal Government and off-budget Federal entities in
accordance with the Budget of the U.S. Government.
- Department
of Commerce
- This is the official web site of the Department of
Commerce, which provides access to the following sub-agencies: Bureau
of Export Administration, Economics and Statistics Administration,
Bureau of Economic Analysis, Bureau of the Census, Economic Development
Administration, International Trade Administration, Minority Business
Development Agency, National Oceanic & Atmospheric
Administration, National Telecommunications & Information
Administration, Office of Inspector General, Patent and Trademark
Office, Technology Administration, National Institute of Standards
& Technology, National Technical Information Service, Office of
Technology Policy.
- FactFinder
- U.S. Census 2000 information, includes data from the
Decennial Census, American Community Survey and the 1997 Economic
Census. This information is available with 100% file and Sample file.
It also includes tables, maps and data sets.
- How
to Create Clear SEC Disclosure Documents A plain english handbook Draft
- Investors need to read and understand disclosure
documents to benefit fully from the protections offered by our federal
securities laws. Because many investors are neither lawyers,
accountants, nor investment bankers, we need to start writing
disclosure documents in a language investors can understand: plain
English.
- EDGAR
10K filings
- EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and
Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing,
acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who
are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC). Its primary purpose is to increase the efficiency and
fairness of the securities market for the benefit of investors,
corporations, and the economy by accelerating the receipt, acceptance,
dissemination, and analysis of time-sensitive corporate information
filed with the agency.
- FEDSTATS
- More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal
Government produce statistics of interest to the public. The Federal
Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this site to
provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information
produced by these agencies for public use. Please use the feedback
button to indicate how well this site meets your needs and any
suggestions for improvement.
- Federal
Reserve
- This site provides links to all of the Federal Reserve
Regional Banks.
- FinanceNet
- Housing and Urban
Development
- At this site you will find information about Lenders,
Brokers, Housing authorities/ tribes, Multifamily industry, Appraisers,
and Health care facilities providers.
- IRS
Actions on Decisions
- An AOD indicates the reasoning behind the Service's
recommendation whether or not to appeal an adverse decision by a trial
or appellate court and whether to acquiesce or nonacquiesce in an
adverse Tax Court decision. AODs, which are prepared by attorneys in
the Tax Litigation Division, are numbered sequentially by year.
- IRS
Internal Revenue Bulletin
- The Internal Revenue Bulletin (IRB) is the
authoritative instrument of the IRS for announcing all substantive
ruling necessary to promote a uniform application of tax law.
- IRBs are offered here in Adobe PDF format. The Adobe
Acrobat reader is available for free and is required to view and print
PDF files.
- IRS
Internal Revenue Manual
- Internal policies and workings of the IRS are compiled
in the Internal Revenue Manual. It includes auditing procedures
Personnel and Training and Development, Administration, Revenue,
Returns, and Accounts Processing, Examination, Collection Activity,
Employee Plans and Exempt Organizations, Appeals, Criminal
Investigation, Inspection, Taxpayer Advocate, International, Penalties.
It also includes the following chapters from the Chief Counsel
Directives Manual - Administrative, - Criminal Tax, - Disclosure
Litigation, - General Legal Services, - General Litigation, - Tax
Litigation, - Technical, - International
- IRS
Tax Forms
- From this site you can download IRS Tax forms,
publication and instructions
- IRS
Private Letter Rulings
- National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Standards and a necessity in the business world and
this agency assists the marketplace in establishing National Standards
for various products. Established in 1901,* NIST strengthens the U.S.
economy and improves the quality of life by working with industry to
develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards. It carries
out this mission through a portfolio of four major programs:
Measurements and Standards Laboratories, Advanced Technology Program,
Manufacturing Extension Partnership, and Baldrige National Quality
Award.
- NonProfit
Gateway
- North
American Industry Classification System
- This site has a table that compares the new NAICS
system with the old 1987 SIC system and visa versa. It describes how
NAICS will affect data users, the implementation of the system and how
it was developed.
- Small
Business Association (SBA)
- The U.S. Small Business Administration, established in
1953, provides financial, technical and management assistance to help
Americans start, run, and grow their businesses. With a portfolio of
business loans, loan guarantees and disaster loans worth more than $45
billion, in addition to a venture capital portfolio of $13 billion, SBA
is the nation's largest single financial backer of small businesses.
Last year, the SBA offered management and technical assistance to more
than one million small business owners. The SBA also plays a major role
in the government's disaster relief efforts by making low-interest
recovery loans to both homeowners and businesses.
- U.S.
Department of Treasury
International
- Canada's System
for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval (SEDAR) database
- A comprehensive resource about Canada's publicly-listed
companies. Provides access to public financial information for the
investment industry and the every-day investor.
- Strategis
(Canada's Business and Consumer Site)
- Strategis is produced by Industry Canada a department
of the Federal government which employs over 4,000 people across
Canada. This site provides: Timely Business and consumer information,
business management tools, Business on the Internet, and Government
Services on the Internet.
- Guide
to doing business in/with China
- This site provides access to Chinese Business Laws and
Regulations. It has over 700 documents covering the years 1949 to 1999.
- Inter-American
Development Bank
- The Inter-American Development Bank, the oldest and
largest regional multilateral development institution, was established
in December of 1959 to help accelerate economic and social development
in Latin America and the Caribbean. Today Bank membership totals 46
nations. Many frequently asked questions about the Bank are answered in
the Basic Facts publication. The Bank's current corporate strategy is
described in the July, 1999 report , "Renewing the Commitment to
Development."
- In addition to the Bank, the IDB Group consists of the
Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) and the Multilateral
Investment Fund (MIF). The IIC, an autonomous affiliate of the Bank,
was established to promote the economic development of the region by
financing small and medium-scale private enterprises. The MIF was
created in 1992 to promote investment reforms and to stimulate
private-sector development.
- International
Tax Seminar (Prof. Doernberg at Emory Law School)
- This resource provides links to professor's syllabus's,
Book updates, Current Tax News, Web Tax Resources, Tax Server Homepage
- International
Trade Administration (ITA)
- This resource provide businesses with trade statistics
from various countries around the world along with marketing
assistance, U.S. Foreign and commercial service, Import Administration,
etc.
- United States
International Trade Commission (ITC)
- The USITC is an independent, quasi-judicial federal
agency that provides objective trade expertise to both the legislative
and executive branches of government, determines the impact of imports
on U.S. industries, and directs actions against certain unfair trade
practices, such as patent, trademark, and copyright infringement. USITC
analysts and economists investigate and publish reports on U.S.
industries and the global trends that affect them. The agency also
updates and publishes the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United
States.
Nongovernmental Internet Resources
- Better Business
Bureau
- Since the founding of the first BBB in 1912, the BBB
system has proven that the majority of marketplace problems can be
solved fairly through the use of voluntary self-regulation and consumer
education. The BBB's Core Services include:, Business Reliability
Reports, Dispute Resolution, Truth-in-Advertising, Consumer and
Business Education, and Charity Review.
- Census
Watch
- Welcome to Census Watch! ESRI is pleased to introduce
Census Watch, a Web portal, to serve our national and global community
of users who are interested in Census matters.
- EH.net
(Economic History Resources)
- EH.Net provides an on-line location for researchers in
economic history to make their data series available to other
professionals and interested scholars. Several data series have been
given to EH.Net and are available as downloadable files, while many
other titles may be accessed through our Database Registry.
- Free
ZIP Code Lookup
- Free ZIP code lookup with areacode, county, latitude,
longitude, MSA, PMSA, congressional district, FIPS code and timezone.
- G8
Information Centre (Univ. of Toronto)
- Since 1975, the heads of state or government of the
major industrial democracies have been meeting annually to deal with
the major economic and political issues facing their domestic societies
and the international community as a whole. The six countries at the
first Summit, held at Rambouillet, France in November 1975, were
France, the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan and Italy. They were
joined by Canada at the San Juan, Puerto Rico Summit of 1976, and by
the European Community at the London Summit of 1977. Since then
membership in the G7 has been fixed, although 15 developing countries'
leaders met with the G7 leaders on the eve of the 1989 Paris Summit,
and the USSR and then Russia have had a post-Summit dialogue with the
G7 since 1991. Starting with the 1994 Naples Summit, the G7 and Russia
have met as the P8 ("Political 8"), following each G7 Summit. The
Denver Summit of the Eight was a milestone, marking full Russian
participation in all but financial and certain economic discussions;
and the 1998 Birmingham Summit saw full Russian participation, giving
birth to the G8 (although the G7 continues to function along side the
formal summits).
- Geography
Network
- The Geography Network is a global network of geographic
information users and providers. It provides the infrastructure needed
to facilitate the sharing of geographic information between data
providers, service providers, and users around the world. The Internet
is used to deliver geographic content to the user's browser and
desktop. Through the Geography Network, you can access many types of
geographic content including live maps, downloadable data, and more
advanced services. The Geography Network content is distributed at many
locations around the world, providing you access to the latest
information available directly from the source. We invite you to
explore and participate in the Geography Network.
- Geostat,
Census Data from University of Virginia (1990 PUMS data, 1992 Tiger
files and (REIS) Regional Economic Information System)
- Geostat supports a wide range of academic and scholarly
activities through access to extensive collections of numeric and
geospatial data files; computing facilities and software for data
manipulation, research, and instruction; and a suite of
Internet-accessible data extraction tools.
- Historical
Census Browser
- 1790 to 1970 covers the data presented here describe
the people and the economy of the US for each state and county from
1790 to 1960. This site is intended to aid in browsing these data
files. It is not intended as a tool for downloading data for further
research or more involved manipulation. Those who require the original
data should contact their ICPSR OR or ICPSR itself.
- InterNet
Bankruptcy Library (Bankruptcy Creditors Service)
- The InterNet Bankruptcy Library joined the Internet
community in December of 1994. If nothing else, we were first. The IBL
includes six subject areas related to large-scale business
restructurings targeted to the bankruptcy professional seeking
information on the Internet. The IBL currently receives thousands of
hits each day. The IBL is cited as a resource link from dozens of Web
sites and has been featured as a valuable Internet information resource
in scores of directories, newspapers, magazines and trade journals.
- Population
Studies Center (University of Pennsylvania)
- This site provides economic statistical information
concerning: The Mexican Migration Project, Status of Women and
Fertility, The Social Networks Project, and the Socioeconomic Survey of
Twins.
- Securities
Class Action Clearinghouse
- Stanford Univeristy's clearinghouse offers investors,
the judiciary, policymakers, and the media a powerful new research tool
that provides a deep and careful look into the workings of class action
litigation.
- By digitizing and linking the full text of complaints,
motions, judicial opinions, and other major class action filings into a
Website with its own full-text search engine, the Stanford
Clearinghouse offers information that is substantially more detailed
and timely than can be found on other services which generally limit
their databases to judicial decisions. By accessing this site, the
public will be able to form its own opinion as to whether litigation is
with or without merit, whether too f ew or too many companies are being
sued, and whether recoveries are too small or too large.
- Standard
& Poor's United States Indices
- Descriptions, methodology, constituents and data, news,
index changes, name and ticker changes, style indices, and sector
indices for the for the S&P 500 Index, MidCap 400 Index,
SmallCap 600 Index, SuperComposite 1500 Index, S&P 100 Index,
S&P/Barra Growth and Value Indices, and REIT Composite Index.
- State
Business Filings Databases --Update by Kathy Biehl
- Almost all of the states make some level of Corporate
and Business filings available online. In a few instances only limited
information (such as name availability) is retrievable. The majority of
the states, however, use their Web presence to disseminate a range of
public business records -- and most of them offer access at no charge.
- State
& Local Taxes Homepage
- This site provides links to the revenue departments of
each state for tax forms.
- University
of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Demography & Ecology CDE
Information Services
- The University of Wisconsin Center for Demography and
Ecology Data Library has opened a Data Resources page with annotated
links to Social Science Data Extractors; Social Science Data Archives;
Public Health Data Sources; Data Resources in Aging; a tutorial on
Keeping Current on the Internet; and the CDE Public FTP page.
Non-University of Wisconsin researchers do not have access to CDE or
University of Wisconsin Data and Program Library Services data.
- ZipCode
Level Statistics
- This site provides Data by Zip Code on the following
statistical information: Population, Education, Health, Environment,
Business, Political.
International Data
- Global
Trade Center
- Global Trade Center... provides many valuable
international trade services for manufacturers, importers exporters,
trade service businesses and opportunity seekers. See our international
trade business opportunities and World Trade Plan, free import export
trade leads, famous trade bulletin board, traders web sites and web
site advertising services.
- National Law
Center for International Free Trade
- The Center has recently launched a biweekly publication
entitled "Inter-American Trade Report." The Report's purposes are
four-fold: 1) to inform readers about recent developments that impact
directly upon the decisions to trade and invest in the Americas; 2) to
link its articles, commentaries and summaries with the more detailed
information available on the Center's InterAm database (the most
complete and accessible in the hemisphere); 3) to serve as an ongoing
forum for both printed and electronic discussion; and 4) to facilitate
trade and investment by helping to identify legal, business and
bureaucratic obstacles to hemispheric free trade.
- The Center has undertaken work in the following
substantive areas: 1) Banking; 2) Environment; 3) Intellectual
Property; 4) Labor; 5) Secured Financing; 6) Securities; 7)
Transportation; and 8) Website and Electronic Database.
Primary Law
Reference Sources
- Commerce
Business Daily
- The Commerce Business Daily (CBD) lists notices of
proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of
government property, and other procurement information. A new edition
of the CBD is issued every business day. Each edition contains
approximately 500-1,000 notices. Each notice appears in the CBD only
once. The CBD databases online via GPO Access contain notices from
December 2, 1996 forward.
- Current
Industrial Reports
- Manufacturing, Mining & Construction Statistics
- EDGAR
10K filings
- EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and
Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing,
acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who
are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC). Its primary purpose is to increase the efficiency and
fairness of the securities market for the benefit of investors,
corporations, and the economy by accelerating the receipt, acceptance,
dissemination, and analysis of time-sensitive corporate information
filed with the agency.
- Federal
Aquisition Regulations (FARS)
- Globus
& National Trade Data Bank
- This site contains daily data on Global business
opportunity leads as well as current exchange rates, current and
historical trade leads, Market and Country Reports and International
trade Statistics by commodity and by country
- State
of the Nation
- This site contains financial and economic data from
throughout the federal government and other related entities. General
Economic Indicators, Consumer Price Index, Producer Price Index, Gross
Domestic Product, National Income and Product Accounts, (NIPA) Housing
and Construction, Housing Starts and Building Permits, New
Construction, New Home Sales, Employment, Employment Cost Index, Local
Area Employment and Unemployment, Weekly Unemployment Claims Report,
Manufacturing and Industry, Retail Sales, Manufacturing, Trade,
Inventories, and Sales, Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization,
Current Industry Reports, Monetary Statistics, Selected Interest Rates,
Foreign Exchange Rates, Bank Credit, Money Stock, Economic Policy,
Beige Book
- SIC
Codes OSHA 1987
Research Guides
- Business
- Via University of Michigan Handout Exchange
- National Law
Center for International Free Trade
- This site provides access to: the Inter-American Trade
Report, English Translations of Mexican legislation, Inter-American
Trade and Investment Law Bulletin Archives and legislative information
from the following Latin American Countries: Argentina, Belize,
Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican
Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad, Uruguay, Venezuela
- Home Page
of the Tax Group at Emory University School of Law
