Statistical Links

Bureau of Labor Statistics
Home page for the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Census Bureau, Annual Survey of Manufacturers for Coatings Industry
(MA325F - Paint and Allied Products)

Census Bureau, Quarterly Survey of Manufacturers for the Coatings Industry
(MQ325F - Paint and Allied Products)

CenStats
Web-based subscription service that provides interactive search-and-display access to the following databases: Annual Survey of Consolidated Federal Funds, Occupation by Sex, Race and Manufacturers Report, Hispanic Origin, Building Permits, County Business Patterns, USA Counties, Census Tract Street Locator, International Trade Data, ZIP Business Patterns.

Corporate Tax Statistics
The IRS's centralized resource on business tax information, from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.

Current Economic Conditions
Commonly known as the Beige Book, the Federal Reserve Board publishes this report eight times each year.  Each Federal Reserve Bank gathers anecdotal information on current economic conditions in its District through reports from Bank and Branch directors and interviews with key business contacts, economists, market experts, and other sources.  The Beige Book summarizes this information by District and sector.

Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization - G.17
The statistics in this release by the Federal Reserve cover output, capacity, and capacity utilization in the U.S. industrial sector, which is defined to comprise manufacturing, mining, and electric and gas utilities.  Manufacturing comprises NAICS manufacturing industries (sector 31-33) plus the logging industry and the newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishing industries.

Economic & Housing Data
The National Association of Home Builders website offers economic data, including data on housing starts, permits, and completions, (subscription may be required). 

Economic Census Report - Paint and Coating Manufacturing: 2002
The economic census, conducted by the Census Bureau every 5 years (covering years ending in “2” and “7”), is the major source of facts about the structure and functioning of the nation’s economy.

This report provides considerably more detail about the industry than does the annual MA325F report, not only publishing data on the industry’s revenues and shipments, but also such things as total employment, manufacturing operations, payrolls, value added, inventories, etc.  It also provides data, in many cases, on a state level (as opposed to aggregated national data).

To download a copy of the 2002 Economic Census, please go to http://www.census.gov/prod/ec02/ec0231i325510.pdf

Economic Indicators.gov
The Economics and Statistics Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce compiles Economic Indicators.gov.  It provides timely access to the daily releases of key economic indicators from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Economic Statistics Briefing Room (ESBR)
This White House website provides easy access to current Federal economic indicators.  It provides links to information produced by a number of Federal agencies.  All of the information included in the Economic Statistics Briefing Room is maintained and updated by the statistical units of those agencies.  All the estimates for the indicators presented in the Federal Statistics Briefing Rooms are the most currently available values.

Empire State Manufacturing Survey
This is a monthly survey of manufacturers in New York State conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Business Outlook Survey
The Business Outlook Survey is a monthly survey of manufacturers in the Third Federal Reserve District.  Participants indicate the direction of change in overall business activity and in the various measures of activity at their plants: employment, working hours, new and unfilled orders, shipments inventories, delivery times, prices paid, and prices received.  The survey has been conducted each month since May 1968.

FedStats
FedStats provides a window on the full range of official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government.  It allows users to track economic and population trends, education, health care costs, aviation safety, foreign trade, energy use, farm production, and more and to access official statistics collected and published by more than 100 Federal agencies without having to know in advance which agency produces them.

Highlights from the Preliminary Report on Manufacturers' Shipments, Inventories, and Orders
This provides information on manufacturing, including new orders for manufactured goods, shipments, unfilled orders, the unfilled orders-to-shipments ratio, inventories, and the inventories-to-shipments ratio.

Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey

Monthly Producer Price Index from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
In the "Choose Industry" box, select "3255_ Paint & Coating Mfg"

Monthly Retail Trade Sales Data
This website provides U.S. Census Bureau data on the wholesale trade sector.

Stat-USA
STAT-USA/Internet, a service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, provides a single point of access to authoritative business, trade, and economic information from across the Federal Government..

U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration
The ITA provides international trade statistics through its TradeStats Express™ website. 

U.S. Economic Indicators
Key census bureau area for national economic indicators data. These include links for data on construction, governments, manufacturing, mining, retail trade, services, transportation, wholesale trade, and international trade.