The following sources can be hit or miss and require some persistence to locate useful industry information.
- Key Business Ratios (need SIC)
- Mergent Online
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics has an Industry at a Glance page.
- The US Census Bureau’s County Business Pattern provides industry information for regions, counties, and cities.
- Search Datamonitor in Business Insights: Essentials.
- Search MarketWatch Datamonitor in Business Source Complete. (MarketWatch Datamonitor is not the same as Datamonitor by the Datamonitor Group. MarketWatch Datamonitor is a product of the Wall Street Journal, comes out less frequently, and covers business as well as industry.)
- SIC search at Occupational Safety & Health Administration.
- The print version of the Risk Management Association Annual Statement Studies (RMA annual statement studies. Industry default probabilities and cash flow measures) is available in REFERENCE: HF5681.B2 R59