Basic Statistics

• Industry at a Glance / U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Industry Sector Data / International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

Databases

• County Business Patterns 1998- (NAICS) / United States Bureau of the Census
  County Business Patterns (CBP) is an annual series that provides subnational economic data by industry. CBP is useful for studying the economic activity of small areas; analyzing economic changes over time; and as a benchmark for statistical series, surveys, and databases between economic censuses. Data are provided by industry in the following economic divisions: agricultural services, forestry, and fishing; mining; construction; manufacturing; transportation and public utilities; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and services.
• Economic Census 1997 / U. S. Bureau of the Census
  The Bureau of the Census provides information from the Economic Census 1997 in many ways. Some can be found on the Bureau's main site and some can be found on American FactFinder. For help navigating between the two, see the guide linked from the "i" above.
• Eurostat
  The Eurostat website contains a mix of statistical information in PDF pages, pre-defined tables and interactive databases. The coverage varies by topic, but some data goes back at least to 1929. All content is freely available. There is a guide to Eurostat at http://www.lib.umn.edu/libdata/page.phtml?page_id=1686.
• Gross State Product & Gross Product Originating / U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
  Provides data on gross product for the United States and states, including manufacturing shipments, business taxes, compensation of employees, and income.
• Zip Code Business Patterns 1998- (NAICS) / U. S. Bureau of the Census
  Zip Code Business Patterns (ZBP) presents business data summarized for nine employment-size classes by hundreds of SIC codes and about 30,000 ZIP codes nationwide.

Online Publications

• Industry Economics Accounts Information Guide / U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis