Automotive News is a leading source for news articles and special reports on the motor vehicle industry. The “Data Center” reports statistics on automotive sales, productions, inventory, and incentives for the US, Canada, and Mexico.
Access notes: Kresge subscribes to the Data Center only, not the articles written by Automotive News reporters.
Subscription includes access to the 9-year Digital Editions Archive for Automotive News, listed under the 'News' menu.
Technical notes:
The Kresge subscription includes FULL ACCESS to the data center. Messages that warn "full access required" will not prevent access.
The Market Data Books are available on the Data Center menu.
Ward’s Intelligence offers in-depth automotive industry data including North American Monthly Sales, Production, and US Inventory, International Monthly Sales and Production, North American Production Forecast, Fuel Economy Index and Vehicle Specifications.
Available data include:
North American Monthly Sales, Production, and U.S. Inventory
International Monthly Sales and Production
North American Production Forecast
Fuel Economy Index
Vehicle Specifications
Note: The Outlook Conference Series and Wards Intelligence Reports are not included in our subscription.
BMI Research
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BMI Research provides market insights, analysis, and forecasts that identify and assess economic, political, and country risks and opportunities across 200+ markets and 20+ industries. Data includes 30+ years of country risk data for over 200 countries, and sector reports for agribusiness, autos, banking & financial services, commodity prices, consumer & retail, consumer electronics, defense & security, oil & gas, insurance, food & drink, freight transport & shipping, information technology, infrastructure, medical devices, metals, mining, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals & healthcare, power, real estate, renewables, telecommunications, and tourism.
Bulk data downloads for macroeconomic, political, and industry indicators for 200+ geographies are also available.
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SageData
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Provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, private companies, and intergovernmental organizations. Create maps and reports from data you select from over 640 datasets. Subjects include health, crime, population, finance, industry, and marketing.
Data is available for the world as a whole or for selected countries. Data for the U.S. are shown by state, often by county, sometimesby census tract and zip code. Time series data may go back several decades.
Data sources include the U.S. government, the World Bank, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Mergent, and Standard & Poors.
Sage retired the CQ US Political Stats and Sage State and Local Stats platforms and migrated the content to Data Planet
The University Library has Datasets Basic Subscription, which does not include EASI Market Planner, IMF data or data from China Data Center.
A collection of public and private data sets from national governments, international organizations, and research firms. A focus of this resource is sub-national data for the countries of the world (data by country, city, state or province). Country-level data is generally available going back 35 years and city-level data generally covers 15-20 years.
Statista
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Statista includes ready-made statistical charts, graphs and tables on marketing, demographics, communication, technology, politics, health, leisure and public opinion polls.
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis tracks historical US motor vehicle sales, motor vehicle production, inventories, exports, and commercial vehicle statistics.
NCSA, an office of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, is responsible for providing a wide range of analytical and statistical support to NHTSA and the highway safety community at large.
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics collects statistics on many transportation modes. Some examples are "Commuting by mode of transportation", "Commute mode share", "Net change in commuters by mode", "U.S. Vehicle-Miles."
The Bureau of Transportation Statistics keeps safety and highway travel. Some titles include "Motor Vehicle Safety Data", "Motor Vehicle Fatalities, Vehicle-Miles, and Associated Rates by Highway Functional System", "Occupant Fatalities by Vehicle Type and Nonoccupant Fatalities", and "Highway Profile."
The National Highway Traffic Administration has legislative mandate to issue the FMVSS published in the The Code of Federal Regulations. (CFR Title 49, Subtitle B, Chapter V, part 571). The CFR is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register.
The US Department of Transportation administers other regulations relating to motor vehicles under CFR Title 49, Subtitle B, Chaper V. For example: Parts 531 and 533 pertains to Fuel Economy Standards.
NHTSA was established by the Highway Safety Act of 1970 and is dedicated to achieving the highest standards of excellence in motor vehicle and highway safety. It works daily to help prevent crashes and their attendant costs, both human and financial.
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