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Consumers
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- Statistical
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974;
business, association and state government data since 1980, and
international agencies since 1983
- Selected data from federal, state and international statistical
compendia directly available through Power Tables
- Abstracts is a fuller data base
- Both are searchable by keyword and by category (e.g. city, income,
disease)
- About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
- For items not hot-linked:
- Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to
the Documents Center for the microfiche version
- Consumers
Index
- Full text on product evaluations and
recalls
- MEDIA UNION LIBRARY: TS156.25 .C76
- Consumer
Reports (UMich Only)
- Full text with articles and brand comparisons beginning January 1988
- Access through Academic Universe/General News
Topics
- Type in search term; type additional term as publication
(consumer reports) and choose file All
Magazines
- Consumer's Resource
Handbook (GPO)
- Tips on home financing, travel, door-to-door salesmen, etc.
- Extensive directory of consumer protection agencies
- Consumer
Search
- Summarizes and synthesizes product reviews
- Focus on major consumer items, such as cars, washing machines, and
smoke detectors
- Indicates the top choices from a number of consumer magazines
- Better Business
Bureau
- News reports on current scams
- Tips on common consumer issues, such as repairing VCRs, sweepstakes,
and child care services
- Advice to businesses, including the handling of unruly customers
- Directory of Better
Business Bureaus by region and state
- Consumer.Gov
- How to stop telemarketing; sample letters and phone numbers
- Warning on major frauds, including phone switching
- Major recalls
- Consumer Product Safety
Commission
- Online consumder protection publications (e.g. toys, carbon monoxide)
- List of product recalls since 1994 arranged by date or searchable by
subject
- Federal Trade
Commission
- Press releases, laws, and decisions on consumer issues
- Jurisdiction includes marketing, advertising, credit, and service
industries
- Household
Products Database (NLM)
- Extensive listing of normal household products (cleaners, lawn care,
hobbies, personal care) by brand name
- For each provides manufacturer contact information, acute and chronic
health effects, ratings for flammability, health, and reactivity
- Detailed listing of ingredients an disposal procedure
- Michigan
Attorney General's Office
- Considerable consumer protection information automobiles, homes and rent,
gifts, fraud
- Links in each section include Michigan statutes and national
resources, such as the Federal Trade Commission
- Subject directory of offices for filing a consumer complaint and an
on-line consumer complaint submission form
- Recalls.Gov
- List of currently active federal government recalls from several
agencies
- Includes consumer products, vehicles, boats, medicines, cosmetics,
food and pesticides
- Pet
Ownership
- Brief data on pet ownership in the United States
- Full text must be purchased from the American Veterinary Medical
Association
- Some data also in Documents Center on Statistical Reference Index
microfiche (SRI A3100-1) and in paperbound version (not web version) of
Statistical Abstract of the United States, Part
7: Recreation
- Consumer
Expenditure Survey (BLS)
- Gives annual total expenditures for pets, toys and playground
equipment
- Does not give figures for pets as a separate category
- Best
Places to Live - 1998 (Money Magazine)
- Ranks 300 cities to live by economy, health, crime,
housing, education, weather,leisure, transit, arts
- Arranged by ranking and alphabetically by city
- City pages include a description and relocation information as well
as statistical data on the quality of life and the cost of living
- Interactive interface permits the user to create own
rankings
- American
Customer Satisfaction Index (UMich Business School)
- Quarterly report since 1994 on consumer satisfaction with individual
companies
- Arranged by product or type of service with percent change over the
previous survey and for the period
- Satisfaction with local governments by type of service and type of
area
- Federal government satisfaction survey in 1999 arranged by agency,
service, and type of consumer
- Consumer Confidence
(Conference Board)
- Current consumer confidence data with a year's history and projections
- Data from the Conference Board (not the University of Michigan)
- Back files are available on Webstract (see
Documents Center or Numeric Data) and on Statistical Reference Index
Microfiche as R4105-4 (see Documents Center)
- Consumer Expenditure Projections
- Projections for about 30 individual items for 2002 available by Census
tract on
the CensusCD+Maps CD-ROM, located in the Documents Center (Do114)
- Choose Area/Tracts and then State/County, and tract numbers; choose
Run/Profile/Consumer Expenditures
- Consumer
Expenditure Surveys (BLS)
- Annual press release on consumer expenditures
- Links to more detailed information, including the LABSTAT Selective
Access Product Below
- Bibliography of related products
- Consumer
Expenditure Surveys Selective Access
- Detailed information by consumer characteristics and type of product
- Example: amount spent annually on entertainment by persons under 25
- Time series begins with 1987
- Effect
of Income on Appliances in U.S. Households
- Percent ownership of various kitchen, laundry, home entertainment, and
telephone appliances by household income, divided by fifths
- Includes cell phones, wide screen TVs, refrigerators with ice makers
- Based on the Department of Energy's 2001 Residential Energy
Consumption Survey
- ICPSR
Data Archives
- Abstracts, documentation, and compressed data of the University of
Michigan's Survey of Consumer Attitudes
- Public opinion polls
- Consumer Expenditure Survey by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics
- 100 Years
of U.S. Consumer Spending: Data for the Nation, New York and Boston
(BLS)
- Detailed analysis of consumer expenditures by type as compared to
household characteristics and income, 1901-2003
- One chapter for each decade includes charts and graphs as well as
population changes
- Concludes that income has risen faster than prices
- Survey of Economic
Expectations (University of Wisconsin)
- Surveys between 1994 and 1998 asked about job, income, and other
wealth-related expectations
- Web site has data set, codebook, and pdf report
- Surveys of
Consumer Attitudes (University of Michigan)
- Monthly, quarterly and archived data, some since 1961, to the
previous year
- Consumer confidence nationally and by region; some by income and age
- Personal, business, unemployment, government economic policy, price,
and interest rate expectations
- Plans for buying major consumer goods, cars, and homes
- Some tables in Adobe Acrobat format; others downable in HTML, CSV or
XLS format
- Includes technical documentation
- Current year's data by paid sponsorship only; call (734) 763-5524
- Economic Census:
Administrative and Support and Waste Management Remediation
Services
- Travel and tourism included as industry under NAICS code 5615
- National report from this census provides employment, payrolls and
receipts for the industry
- 983K in pdf format
- Statistical
Abstract of the United States
- Access Adobe Acrobat version
- The end of the chapter on Parks, Recreation, and
Travel includes numerous tables on travelers and revenues
- U.S. travellers by type of travel, transportation mode, and visits to
foreign countries
- Foreign travellers to the U.S., their country of origin and expenditures
- Domestic travel expenditures for the U.S. and individual states
- Survey of U.S. State and Territory Tourism Office
Budgets
- Annual report by the Travel Industry Association of America
- Ranks states on their tourism budgets and expendtirues
- SRI
Microfiche 2006 A9135-2
- ITA Tourism
Industries
- Historical and current travel to the United States by country of origin
- Total foreign national travel expenditures, cities and states of
destination, and travel activities (e.g. shopping, amusement parks)
- Annual data on U.S. travel abroad by country of destination
- Travel
Industry Association of America
- Press Room provides statistics on travel expenditures in the U.S. and
by U.S. tourists
- Employment in the travel industry
- World Tourism
Organization
- International agency coordinating worldwide tourist policies and
improvements
- International visitors and receipts by country appears in its
Statistics Service/Highlights as a pdf file
- Access to specialized data bases requires a password
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