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The Motley Fool
September 7, 2006
Mike Norman |
Dismal Science From the Armchair Access to free data on the Internet lets anyone give economic forecasting a try. If ever there was a time to be an amateur economist, it is now, so go ahead and awaken the economist within you.   |
BusinessWeek
September 29, 2003
James Mehring |
Federal Figures at Your Fingertips Profit data, career information, and more are just a mouse click away |
Information Today
August 27, 2012 |
Census Bureau Mobile App Now Available for iPhone and iPad The America's Economy mobile app provides updated statistics on the U.S. economy, including monthly economic indicators and economic trends. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
Workplace Fatalities in the U.S.: By The Numbers Here are some statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics about workplace fatalities. |
Information Today
March 29, 2012
Marydee Ojala |
ProQuest `Rescues' the Statistical Abstract of the United States The addition of StatAbs to ProQuest's Statistical Insight and DataSets will benefit all those with access to the databases. |
Information Today
March 28, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
U.S. Census Bureau to Eliminate Strategic Publications Including Statistical Abstracts All budget decisions are difficult choices, but we wonder whether anyone in the U.S. government understands why Statistical Abstracts and Current Industrial Reports are precisely the resources that should not be eliminated? |
Job Journal
June 27, 2004 |
Charting the Choices A easy-to-read guide to the most-promising professions. |
Information Today
August 2, 2012 |
Census Bureau API Lets Developers Create Custom Apps The U.S. Census Bureau launched a new online service that makes key demographic, socioeconomic, and housing statistics more accessible than ever before. |
The Motley Fool
November 29, 2010
Sean Sun |
Recession's Over; Dada Says Retail's Back Here's why. |
U.S. Banker
February 2009
Joseph Rosta |
U.S. Government Data Needs a Redo By almost any measure, the American economy entered 2009 in need of a rebuild. One area that sorely stands out among those in need of overhaul that hasn't gotten much attention: the nation's economic statistics. |
Information Today
June 14, 2012
Barbie E. Keiser |
Federal Statistical Programs in Jeopardy The Census Bureau is not the only data source frequently tapped by information professionals (among others) in jeopardy. Nearly every federal agency has some statistical program that will be affected by budget cuts. |
Information Today
December 17, 2012
Barbie E. Keiser |
Statistical Abstract of the United States Gets a New Publisher ProQuest will save the day, rescuing this valued reference tool for the nation. |
IndustryWeek
February 1, 2009 |
Job Losses: By The Numbers Figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Manufacturing Performance Institute/MAPI show that the end of 2008 was one of the worst periods in recent history for job losses. |
Registered Rep.
July 30, 2003
Will Leitch |
Securities Industry Registers Slight Employment Uptick Securities firms have begun adding employees again, according to statistics from the Securities Industry Association and the Labor Dept. |
The Motley Fool
May 14, 2007
Dan Caplinger |
Rotten to the Core You know that statistics lie, but investors continue to rely on some statistics that don't make any sense. You can't ignore food and energy, so why should the CPI? |
Searcher
June 2002
Miriam A. Drake |
The U.S. Census bureau in the 21st Century In order to learn more about access and distribution of the Census, I sent surveys to two librarians associated with the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of the ALA. While these librarians could not speak for GODORT, they presented some interesting perspectives... |
BusinessWeek
May 14, 2007
James Mehring |
Growth: More Than Meets The Eye While real gross domestic product, the popular gauge of economic growth, is slumping, another measure of economic activity called gross domestic income remains strong. |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Know Your Numbers: Employment Use economic data to gain the upper hand in your investing. |
Information Today
June 20, 2011
Barbie E. Keiser |
Easy and Affordable State-Based Research From RAND RAND State Statistics features more than 70 databases for the 50 states. |
IndustryWeek
March 1, 2005
Michael K. Evans |
Evans On The Economy -- More Jobs Will Be Lost What will happen to the U.S. economy as manufacturing employment continues to shrink? Manufacturing workers will be hurt, but not the U.S. economy generally. |
InternetNews
May 7, 2004
Sharon Gaudin |
IT Loses Jobs in April but Rate of Decline Ebbs Government economists report that the high-tech industry is still losing jobs, but the loss rate is slower than it was a year ago. |
The Motley Fool
October 19, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Know Your Numbers: Consumer Price Index A great deal of work goes into calculating the consumer price index. This key index shows how much consumers are paying for goods and services. |
AFP eWire
February 19, 2007 |
Volunteering Slightly Down in 2006, But Overall Still Strong Results from a survey on volunteering by the Bureau of Labor Statistics show a modest decline, but they may reflect special circumstances instead of a trend. Includes statistics on the demographics of volunteers. |
Entrepreneur
February 2005
Crystal Detamore-Rodman |
At Your Service The U.S. Census Bureau's new quarterly survey of service-industry activity will give businesses information to monitor industry trends, make hiring decisions and develop immediate operational strategies. |
Searcher
January 2003
David Mattison |
Counting Heads Around the World The Genealogy of international Census Databases, Part II: Canada |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2004
Sackers, Nutting, & Williams |
Free Australian and New Zealand Business Information Resources: A Report from the Melbourne Business Information Group A discussion of NZ/Australian free Web-based business resources focusing on regional media resources, company information and industry profiles. |
CIO
November 1, 2000
Ben Worthen |
The Greatest Project on Earth The Census Bureau used novel IT methods to defy the doomsayers and come in on time... |
IndustryWeek
August 1, 2005
Patricia Panchak |
Editor's Page -- Measuring Success In A Global Economy Are our economic statistics keeping up with manufacturing's structural changes? |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2007
David Blanchard |
The Face Of American Manufacturing The United States is the world's most productive country, but the global landscape has changed dramatically in recent years and even more changes are on the way. |
Information Today
September 5, 2013 |
Ex Libris Group Adds New Statistical Content Ex Libris Group recently added Data-Planet statistical content to its Primo Central Index. |
Information Today
May 20, 2013 |
EBSCO and Data-Planet Provide Statistical Data Via EBSCO Discovery Service A growing collection of more than 5,000 summary-level data records from Data-Planet will be available within EBSCO Discovery Service, allowing mutual customers to link directly to Data-Planet DataSheets. |
BusinessWeek
April 21, 2011 |
Data Leaks in China Give Some Investors an Edge After leaks of economic data moved markets, China's statistical agency cut the number of people with early access to the figures. |
Managed Care
June 2003 |
'Doctors take oaths, lawyers take money' A review of the hourly compensation rates of lawyers and physicians by the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics reveals, however, greater increases in hourly wages reported by physicians from 1997 through 2001 than by their lawyer counterparts. |
InternetNews
May 20, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Retail E-Commerce Growth Outpacing The Pack The Census Bureau reports a 24% growth in e-commerce sales from last year. |
The Motley Fool
January 9, 2012
Morgan Housel |
A Big Upgrade for America's Jobs Market Finally, good news. |
The Motley Fool
September 7, 2007
Seth Jayson |
Wall Street Gets Its Wish Will the lackluster jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics get the Fed's attention, and maybe scare it into a quarter or half-point cut? |
BusinessWeek
June 18, 2007
Michael Mandel |
Are You a Victim of 'Phantom' GDP? Here are four signs to help you determine whether your industry's output and productivity are being overstated. |
The Motley Fool
November 4, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Should You Cheer Today's Jobs Report? The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' employment situation report for October showed that 80,000 net jobs were added to the economy during the month. |
Inc.
October 2006 |
Best & Worst Rating the best and worst states - among the 26 whose governors are up for reelection - in seven key areas. |
The Motley Fool
July 19, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Where All The Jobs Went Here's a sobering statistic: All nine recessions between 1948 and 1990 saw employment return to pre-recession levels within 31 months. Today, 42 months after our recession began, we've only regained about a fifth of lost jobs. |
Searcher
June 2002
David Mattison |
Counting heads Around the World The Genealogy of International Census databases, part 1... |
IndustryWeek
May 16, 2012
Stephen Gold |
The Changing Nature of How We Measure Success The federal government's methods for tracking manufacturing are casting doubt upon how much we really understand about this critical sector's health and viability. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
Women's Earnings in 2007: By the Numbers In 2007 women who worked full time had median weekly earnings that were about 80% of their male counterparts, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
Information Today
September 20, 2012
Peggy Garvin |
APDU 2012 Conference Explores the Future of Federal Survey Data While the tech community has been buzzing about public data, open data, and Big Data for the past several years, the Association of Public Data Users has had a relatively low profile in discussions happening outside of its own community of statisticians and demographers. |
The Motley Fool
September 20, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Understanding Economic Data: New-Home Construction Investors, by looking at data on new-home construction, you can learn how homebuilders are reacting to changing conditions in the real estate market and draw valuable conclusions that can assist you in making your own decisions about housing. |
The Motley Fool
June 3, 2011
Morgan Housel |
Before You Get Too Worked Up About That Jobs Number ... You can't simply look at today's number and declare that we're falling into a new slowdown. |
BusinessWeek
February 14, 2005
Bremner & Roberts |
China: Fuzzy Numbers No More? Statistics could improve if Beijing's new economic census is a success. |
Searcher
February 2002
Laura Gordon-Murnane |
Digital Government: Digital Tools for the Electronic Dissemination of Government Information Both FirstGov.gov and American FactFinder are laudable and impressive efforts to bring citizens together with their government using the Web and are positive examples of our taxpayers' dollars at work... |
The Motley Fool
November 11, 2011
Morgan Housel |
7 Charts That Sum Up Our Jobs Mess Misery, in pictures. There is no economic law that says that everyone, or even most people, automatically benefit from technological progress. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2006
Dan Caplinger |
Know Your Numbers: Construction Spending By using the Census Bureau's construction spending report, you can identify trends and countertrends in construction and use your conclusions to improve your understanding of the overall economy and to inform your personal investment decisions. |
