Orders will be shipped within 48 hours of the approved request. USAData, a consumer lifestyle research firm, is offering some of its consumer lifestyle, demographic, and shopping behavior information free of charge on its Web site. Not only can you find out which beverages, automobiles, etc. Users can compare a company with a self-selected peer group along a set of shareholder, financial, and operational benchmarks. Reports can be ordered right online.
Visitors can also track the stock prices of up to seven competitors at no charge.
The Social Sciences Data Center at the University of Virginia has uploaded electronic versions of the 1988 and 1994 County and City Data Books to its Web site. Look up information for just one locality or compare a number of areas based on dozens of variables, from population density to retail sales and local voting patterns. Data can be displayed to your Web browser or delivered by ftp.