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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

Consumer's Action Handbook (GPO)

Tips on home financing, travel, door-to-door salesmen, etc.
Extensive directory of consumer protection agencies

Consumer.Gov

Site went offline May 2009, and an archived version at the Internet Archive from Mar 2008 can be seen here. For information on consumer protection issues see the FTC website.
How to stop telemarketing; sample letters and phone numbers
Warning on major frauds, including phone switching

Consumers Index

Full text on product evaluations and recalls
Buhr: TS156.25 .C76

Economic Census: Administrative and Support and Waste Management Remediation Services

1997
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

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 Surve

Federal Trade Commission

Online consumder protection publications (e.g. toys, carbon monoxide)
List of product recalls since 1994 arranged by date or searchable by subject

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

ICPSR Data Archives

There are FOUR different surveys whose names are often confused: Consumer Satisfaction (UMich Business School), Consumer Confidence (Conference Board), Consumer Attitudes (UMich ICPSR), and Consumer Comfort (ABC/Washington Post.)

Abstracts, documentation, and compressed data of the University of Michigan's Survey of Consumer Attitudes

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