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Management: Demographics

Demographic Data

Whether you want to locate a whole dataset or you just need a few statistics to illustrate a point, the following resources are useful and authoritative sources:

Type of data Database
Choosing a resource by data type:
Company data

Nexis Uni
Mergers & Acquisitions; Deals; IPOs: global

Nexis Uni
Financial data for banks and other financial institutions S&P Capital IQ
Economics, Equities, Stock & Bond Market Indices, Exchange rates, Interest rates: global S&P Capital IQ

Economic & Financial data: global

 

OCED Economic Outlook

Statistical Abstract of the United States (ProQuest)

World Economic Outlook

All topics (Economy; Business, Industry & Trade; Employment & Labour Market; Health; Education; Population; Welfare): United Kingdom

Office for National Statistics
All topics: Europe

Eurostat

In Lovejoy Library's catalog, "Search Everything," you can search eurostat, OR  eurostats + the  industry OR Europe + industry to locate additional information.
Market research data (market sizes, market segmentation, market share, forecasts, compound annual growth rates: global

Global Market Navigator

 

 

Statistics

Citing Data

ELEMENTS OF DATA CITATION

  • Author: Name(s) of each individual or organizational entity responsible for the creation of the dataset.

  • Date of Publication: Year the dataset was published or disseminated.

  • Title: Complete title of the dataset, including the edition or version number, if applicable.

  • Publisher and/or Distributor: Organizational entity that makes the dataset available by archiving, producing, publishing, and/or distributing the dataset.

  • Electronic Location or Identifier: Web address or unique, persistent, global identifier used to locate the dataset (such as a DOI). Append the date retrieved if the title and locator are not specific to the exact instance of the data you used.

These are the minimum elements required for dataset identification and retrieval. Fewer or additional elements may be requested by author guidelines or style manuals. Be sure to include as many elements as needed to precisely identify the dataset you have used.

FOR EXAMPLE

Arrange these elements following the order and punctuation specified by your style guide. If examples for datasets are not provided, the format for books is generally considered a generic format that can be modified for other source types.

APA (6th edition)

Smith, T.W., Marsden, P.V., & Hout, M. (2011). General social survey, 1972-2010 cumulative file (ICPSR31521-v1) [data file and codebook]. Chicago, IL: National Opinion Research Center [producer]. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]. doi: 10.3886/ICPSR31521.v1

MLA (7th edition)

 International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology cited from University of Michigan.