Banks use more professionally prepared market reports such as reports by the economic consultancy firm Syntec Economic Services, Guide to Growth , which examines Australian industries financially with forecasts. Professionally prepared market reports are also emerging, with the full text immediately from the commercial information market. Each database retailing firm has several such databases, but often these databases are focused globally or in a different country. Sheila Webber has a very good list of firms which market research reports. In addition to these resources, you may also wish to investigate certain research venues where knowledge of additional statistics will congregate.
Many statistics appear regularly in journals, annual reports and newspapers.
Specialty libraries, particularly specialty librarians, may be aware of additional statistics. In both cases, limit your search to only the last couple of years or you will locate very old, dated statistics. Once you have proceeded this far, it is wise to stop looking for statistics, and begin again at sophisticated commentary - which is likely to include supporting statistics or references to statistics anyway. Use this resource sparingly, and only after having exhausted other avenues.