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View Census Academy resources about the topic of Business & Economy including Data Gems, courses, and webinars.

Business & Economy Data Gems

Data Gem

Charting the Economy: How to Explore & Visualize U.S. Services Data

September 03, 2025

Dive into the powerful economic indicators that reveal real-time shifts in healthcare, real estate, manufacturing, and more!
Data Gem

Tracking Housing Trends with the Housing Unit Change Viewer

May 30, 2025

Curious where new homes are popping up? Watch this video to see how planners and researchers use detailed Census data to track trends right down to the block.
Data Gem

Exploring the Economic Census

December 05, 2024

Learn how to access key economic data to support your analysis of local business statistics and industry data by NAICS codes from the 2022 Economic Census.
Data Gem

Explorando los datos de vulnerabilidad social de Puerto Rico

October 18, 2024

En este Data Gem, navegaremos a través de la herramienta My Community Explorer para Puerto Rico.
Data Gem

Exploring Puerto Rico's Vulnerable Populations Data with MCE

October 18, 2024

In this Data Gem video, we’ll dive into the tool My Community Explorer for Puerto Rico.
Data Gem

How to Utilize CBB to Analyze the Economic Effects of Disasters

October 11, 2024

Assess disaster impact on local businesses, supply chains, and more for FEMA Disaster Declaration (DR) areas.
Data Gem

Economic Census and Annual Business Survey Data Releases

July 18, 2024

These surveys give us detailed business-related insights about employees, sales, payroll and more.
Data Gem

How to Build Customized Industry Groups and Geographic Areas

May 27, 2024

Dive deeper into how to use Census Business Builder to for your specific business analysis needs and how to generate a tailored business report.
Data Gem

USA Trade Online Data Tool

August 25, 2023

Follow along with this Data Gem, where we show you how to track international trade commodities over time using the data tool, USA Trade Data.
Data Gem

Locate and Analyze your Customers and Market with CBB

March 30, 2023

Learn to select and visualize variables for your industry which enable you to evaluate ideal locations, learn about your customer base, and more.
Data Gem

How to Access Retail Sales Data for the Nation and States

December 12, 2022

In this Data Gem, we demonstrate the Monthly State Retail Sales Tool, which easily allows you to compare year-over-year retail data by sector.
Data Gem

How to Access, Map, and Compare Detailed Veteran Data

November 09, 2022

Learn how to access our tables that contain veteran data, including the Veteran Profile from the ACS and the veteran business ownership data from the ABS.
Data Gem

Find What Survey Has the Data You Need with Census Survey Explorer

April 01, 2022

This Data Gem will use practical real-life examples to teach you how search our surveys with the Census Survey Explorer.
Data Gem

PART 6: Select a Customized Area to Perform a Labor Market Analysis

March 01, 2022

Learn how you can use the area selection tool to customize the area on the map to perform data analysis.
Data Gem

PART 5: Create an Inflow and Outflow Analysis of your Labor Market

February 22, 2022

This Gem shows you how to visualize the inflow and outflow of workers to and from your selection area and the number of workers who live and work in the area.
Data Gem

PART 4: Create Destination Analysis to Visualize Jobs & Workforce Data

February 15, 2022

This Gem adds the ability to select any area in the country to visualize the home or work destinations of the workers employed or living in the area.
Data Gem

PART 3: Create a Distance/Direction Analysis to Visualize Commuting

February 08, 2022

This Gem focuses on showing you how to visualize on a map the distance and direction that workers commute between residence and employment locations.
Data Gem

PART 2: How to Create an Area Comparison Analysis to Visualize Jobs

February 01, 2022

Learn how to visualize the comparison of the counts of workers employed or living in each area within your primary selected area in OnTheMap.
Data Gem

PART 1: Visualizing Jobs and Labor Force Data with OnTheMap

January 24, 2022

Learn from our Data Gems Series how to visualize data for your area about workers, jobs and labor force characteristics using OnTheMap.

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