STAT-USA

Description

STAT-USA is an Internet site maintained by the US Department of Commerce for the purpose of disseminating economic and business information. It is comprised of two components.

GLOBUS & NTDB
NTDB (National Trade Data Bank) provides access to Country Commercial Guides, Market Research reports, Best Market reports. NTDB also provides U.S. import and export statistics, as well as over 75 other various reports and programs.

GLOBUS (Global Business Opportunities) offers daily trade leads from the Trade Opportunities Program (TOPS), as well as the Department of Agriculture. GLOBUS also offers daily procurement activity from the Defense Logistics Agency and the United Nations.

The International Trade Library is a separate section that contains a comprehensive collection of over 40,000 documents related to international trade. All are full text searchable, as well as key word searchable by country or product.

STATE OF THE NATION
Components of the State of the Nation include: general economic indicators, national income and product accounts (NIPA), housing and construction data, employment data, manufacturing and industry data, monetary statistics, and economic policy. For this list of topics, historical series are listed separately in the State of the Nation Library section.

Leads To Data tables, data files, and full-text reports, journal articles, and monographs from over 40 U.S. Federal government agencies.

Dates Covered

Updated daily, length of historical coverage varies.

Print Counterpart

No print counterpart.

Related Databases

· Much of the information contained on STAT-USA is publicly available either directly from the issuing agency or a third party site. Many of these sites are identified on subject-specific guides to government information such as:

International Trade page
Economics Statistics page
BEA - Bureau of Economic Development home page.

Access Notes

Off-Campus Access to Libraries resources requires a UBITName and password.

Contact

Edward Herman