Research Guides: *Getting Started with Business Research: Data & Statistics

SLU Databases

WRDS
Faculty, PhD students and full-time MBA students are eligible for individual web-based accounts. Undergraduates requesting access need to contact Judy Geczi.

PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
PolicyMap is a multi-disciplinary interactive online mapping and visualization tool that provides access to data, including, demographic, spending, housing, quality of life, economy, health....more.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista is a statistics portal that integrates data on media, business, politics, education, technology and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets on over 80,000 topics from 18,000 sources...more.
Sage Data This link opens in a new window
Formerly DataPlanet. Search across federal, state, local, and privately collected statistics from banking to Zillow real estate data...more.
ICPSR This link opens in a new window
Repository of social science data sets for research and instruction. Disciplines represented include political science, sociology, economics, history, education, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, and law….more.
MERGENT Online This link opens in a new window
Contains 15 years of historical and financial information as reported by the companies for over 15,000 U.S. public companies traded on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX stock exchanges as well as historical and financial information for approximately 17,000 non-United States-based companies from over 100 countries. Annual reports in color pdf image format are also available along with stock exchange information by country....more.
Passport: Global Market Information Database This link opens in a new window
Provides global business research intelligence and statistics on industries, countries and consumers.

Census Data Overview

Census Data Overview Research Guide
An in-depth library research guide for locating census information on communities and neighborhoods.