Elizabeth Sanford

Ms. Sanford
Research and Instruction Librarian
Subject Specialties: Christian Studies, Business, English, and Modern Languages
P: (864) 231-5743 E: esanford@andersonuniversity.edu

Book time to meet with me.

Statista Provides statistics, market and opinion research, business data, white paper studies, dossiers, industry reports, digital market outlooks and consumer market outlooks.

Mergent Online Provides comprehensive company data for U.S. and International public and private companies (and industry reports). 

American Time Use Survey (ATUS). Bureau of Labor Statistics The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) measures the amount of time people spend doing various activities, such as paid work, childcare, volunteering, and socializing.

Bureau of Labor Statistics Databases, tables & calculators with employment, spending, price indexes, and productivity data. Includes the Consumer Price Index, Producer Price Indexes, Import and Export Prices, and Employment Cost Trends.

Bureau of Transportation Statistics. U.S. Department of Transportation The Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), part of the Department of Transportation (DOT) is the preeminent source of statistics on commercial aviation, multimodal freight activity, and transportation economics.

Consumer Expenditure Surveys. Bureau of Labor Statistics The survey provides information on how much consumers spend on a variety of product categories, based on age, occupation, income, and other demographics.

Data. U.S. Department of Education Statistics such as student loan data, graduation rates, dropout rates are available on the data page for the U.S. Department of Education.

Data.census.gov (U.S. Census Bureau) Data.census.gov is the new platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau. It replaced American FactFinder which was decommissioned in March 2020.

Data.gov Search portal for open data sets published by the the U.S. Government.

FastStats. Center for Disease Control and Prevention The FastStats site provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically. The CDC also produces the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Survey of Consumer Finances. U.S. Federal Reserve The Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) has been conducted every three years since 1989 to track trends in U.S. household finances.

_{Special thanks to Library of Congress for providing links and descriptions for these resources.} 

Data USA External Two entities, Deloitte and Datawheel, and Professor Cesar Hidalgo came together to create a "comprehensive website and visualization engine of public US Government data."

Stats America External StatsAmerica is a service of the Indiana Business Research Center (IBRC) at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business, with support from the Economic Development Administration. It compiles data from federal and state sources, which are cited on each data visualization.

_{Special thanks to Library of Congress for providing links and descriptions for these resources.} 

From Statista: "We are not the source of the surveys or statistics, rather, the aggregator and collector of information provided by outside sources. In publications, references should always be made to the original source of the information. Our new citation feature for scientific customers makes referencing very easy. We offer five of the most common citation styles: APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA and Bluebook."

Here is an article about citing Statista, References in APA: Statista.

Thrift Library recommends using Zotero for reference management.

Once you save an article, book, webpage, etc. to Zotero it will generate citations in the style guide of your choice. It also does so much more! With Zotero, you can...

• Save PDFs and Snapshots of your sources to folders in your library
• Annotate PDFs (when you copy and paste text from an annotated file it will automatically add quotation marks and the author, date, and page number in a parenthetical citation.) 
• Search your entire library
• Generate bibliographies 

Zotero is a desktop app that also has a web library for when you need to access your library away from your primary computer. 

Zotero also offers browser connectors that enables users to save sources with a single click. 

More information about reference management as well as other available tools can be found in LibraryDIY under Citation Tools.