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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

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

Recalls.Gov

List of currently active federal government recalls from several agencies
Includes consumer products, vehicles, boats, medicines, cosmetics, food and pesticides

Recording Industry Association of America

Simply Map (UMich Only)

Displays and exports both data and maps of business and 1980-2000 Census data for states, counties, cities, zip codes, census tracts and block groups
Business variables include Quality of Life (crime, weather), types of businesses, retail sales, consumer expenditures, consumer price index, and types of households (young, middle age, old) by income
Create workspace; choose highest level of geography; choose variables; choose lowest level of geography; export image or data to your own workspace

Statistical Abstract of the United States

Compendium of government and non-government statistics, primarily on the national and state levels
Population and vital statistics, health, economics, education, manufacturing, natural resources, transportation, and U.S. Industrial Outlook (production and foreign trade by four-digit SIC for past six years)
- Tourism: The end of the chapter on Parks, Recreation, and Travel includes numerous tables on travelers and revenues

Statistical Universe (UMich Only)

Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974; business, association and state government data since 1980; international agency since 1983
Full text of most federal tables available online beginning 2007 and international beginning 2008
Power searches indexes individual tables in federal and state statistical abstracts and provides the data
Search abstracts searches annotations for all publications in the data base and provides some hot links

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

Survey of U.S. State and Territory Tourism Office Budgets

Surveys of Consumer Attitudes (University of Michigan)

Monthly, quarterly and archived data, some since 1961, up until the last six months
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