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Find statistics, consumer survey results, and industry studies. Categorized into 21 market sectors, the platform provides direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.
Data sources include market research reports as well as trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.

Explore the U.S. Business Patterns tab. Visualize annual statistics on U.S. businesses with and without paid employees or payroll at detailed levels of geography and industry. Statistics are available on business establishments at the state and county levels, metropolitan area, ZIP code levels, and congressional districts.

Statistical Abstract of the United States, published annually by the federal government since 1878, is the best known statistical reference publication in the country. The Statistical Abstract is valued as both an answer book and a guide to statistical sources. As a comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States, it is a snapshot of America and its people.