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Retail and Wholesale Trade

Advance monthly retail sales in text format
- Time series since 1988 provides seasonally adjusted data by sector (e.g. automotive dealers, grocery stores)
- Data at a national level
Monthly retail sales data
- For the U.S., states, and metropolitan areas since 1986
- In spreadsheet format
Press releases of national wholesale trade data since 1992
Monthly data by three-digit SIC number

Service Annual Survey

Service Industries Trends

Very current information about employment, productivity, and GDP in individual service industries and in the service industries of individual countries
Data and annotated web links by country, region or service sector
Some data in spreadsheet or zip format

Small Business Administration

Guide to starting a small business
National data on number of firms, financing, and disaster loans
State data on small business firms and jobs by type of industry; owner characteristics
Financing describes the loans available with loan application forms

Standard Industrial Classification Manual

Four-digit classification for industries used by Census Bureau and most business publications
Industries and description searchable by keyword
From OSHA and NTIS is a numerical classification used by the Census Bureau for presenting industrial data through 1996
Seven digit code for the minerals and manufactures appear in the Numerical List of Manufactured and Mineral Products (Doc. Cen. HD 9725 .N851)

State Personal Income (BEA)

Turner Construction Cost Index

U.S. Industry and Trade Outlook

Tables for manufacturing industries
Value of shipments (i.e. production) for the industry and product with annual totals in dollars and a percentage change for each year
Import and export data

Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey

State reports for on heavy and lightweight truck use as well as sport utility vehicles (SUV) and station wagons
Include industry for which used, mileage, and components of vehicle
Known in 1992 as the Truck Inventory and Use Survey
Some data dates back to 1963