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Where to Locate Primary Sources for Business
Where to find primary sources - Business
Here is a list of the kinds of resources that are considered "primary" for this discipline:
Market research
Technical studies
Drawings
Designs
Models
Memoranda
Letters
Data sets
Company statistics
Consumer surveys
Annual reports
Here are some EFSC databases to search for these kinds of primary sources:
Online websites featuring Business statistics & company information:
An annual series that provides subnational economic data by industry
Portal to statistics and data sets produced by federal government agencies and offices
National and state-level data on numbers of businesses and employees, broken down by industry
Economic data, including price and production indices for all sectors of the United States business sector from 1931 to 1991
Data on businesses with and without employees
Data Includes exchange rates, direction of trade, economic outlook, national accounts and many other topics.