Selected Federal Databases May 25 2010

1) FedBizOps.gov

Result- detailed information on each bid opportunity

1
2) Bureau of Labor Statistics

2
3) Consumer Price Index-

3
When you click on “Get Data” your selections will disappear.

4
4) Census Bureau

5
5) Business & Industry options

6
A. Go to GET DATA- 2007 Economic Census

7
Click again on 2007 Economic Census

8
B. Go to Search for Data sets ---by Geography, industry, data item

9
C. Select “2007 Economic Census” in drop down menu. Then select Geographic Area

10
D. Then select Industry or Product

11
E. For all the sectors of manufacturing, select Manufacturing 31-33 (NAICS codes)

Click “OK”

12
F. For all sectors of manufacturing, select EC0731A1: GAS: Ind Stats for the St, MSA, Cou, Place :
2007.

The other selection just gives you manufacturing as a total for the state.

13
G. There are 582 lines of information on six pages here, 100 lines per page.

14
H. Practice downloading and clean-up of cvs files
Download this data into a comma-separated values(cvs) file.
-You may be asked to change your security setting to allow for the download. You will
then need to start the download process again.

15