Research Guides: Oregon Executive MBA: Industry Research

Finding Industry Codes (SIC & NAICS)

Locating the correct industry codes to match your business or product line will ease the research process.

NAICS codes apply to business operations in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico while SIC codes are used for businesses in other countries.

NAICS (North American Industrial Classification System)
Search for NAICS and SIC codes. The codes may be used to search for economic data on industries.
NAICS - U.S. Census
Official U.S. Government website provides the latest information on NAICS revisions, as well as NAICS reference files and tools.

IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
Industry research database covering thousands of established and emerging industries in the US, China, and global economies. Reports include market characteristics, segmentation, industry conditions, industry financial data, key success factors, and forecasting. Subscription includes US, China and Global Industry, US Company Benchmarking, Business Environment Profiles, US Specialized Industry, iExpert, and US Industry Spotlight modules.
Mergent Intellect This link opens in a new window
Contains basic public and private company profiles on more than 20 million North American companies and over 70 million global companies including recent financial information, subsidiaries, key competitors, and executive profiles. Also includes First Research industry profiles for more than 1000 industry segments, Key Business Ratios, job search information, and more.
Passport This link opens in a new window
Includes more than 115 internationally standardized statistics on industry sectors, country markets, and companies as well as full text market, company, & country reports; as well as expert analysis of emerging industry, country, and consumer trends.

Industries

Statistics of U.S. Businesses - U.S. Census Bureau
SUSB is an annual series that provides national and subnational data on the distribution of economic data by enterprise size and industry.

Doing Business

globalEDGE
globalEDGE™ is a knowledge web-portal that connects international business professionals worldwide to a wealth of information, insights, and learning resources on global business activities.
UNdata: A World of Information
The UNdata hub offers central access to the various United Nations statistical databases covering topics including Agriculture, Education, Employment, Energy, Human Development, Industry, Information and Communication Technology, National Accounts, Population, Tourism, and Trade.
World Bank Data
7000 indicators for world countries, to view or download.