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Authorized Affiliates are users with an active UCInetID and password, i.e. current UCI students, faculty, and staff.
These resources are not licensed by the UCI Libraries, but librarians occasionally promote them when they are relevant for certain types of research.
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People in Other Countries
Passport Global Market Information Database
Access: UCI - Authorized Affiliates
Geography: Global
Reports on major elements of consumers' characteristics--as available--for several countries worldwide. The main report categories are Households, Income and Expenditure, Lifestyles, and Population.
Marketline Advantage
Access: UCI
Geography: Global
Macro-level socioeconomic and demographic data for countries worldwide, both historical and forecasted.
Insider Intelligence (formerly eMarketer)
Access: UCI
Geography: Global
Market research reports, industry data, and charts for everything digital, including consumers behavior related to: internet usage, ecommerce, B2B, online marketing and advertising, social media, mobile device usage. Coverage is both US and global.
eHRAF World Cultures
HRAF = Human Relations Area File. Contains ethnographic collections, organized by regions, subregions, and cultures, covering all aspects of cultural and social life, on hundreds of groups of people from around the world. Caveat: not all cultures are in the HRAF Collection of Ethnography. Rather the aim was for 400 societies around the world to give sufficient diversity. (See outline of the World Cultures List.)
Business Source Complete
Access: UCI
Geography: Global
Thousands of business articles from scholarly journals, newspapers, trade publications, and magazines. Coverage is worldwide. Often a useful resource for insights on consumers.
Access World News
Access: UCI
Geography: Global
Full-text information from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Country-specific news publications are good for insights on local consumers and markets.
Factiva
Access: UCI
Geography: Global
Worldwide coverage of local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, and business-rich websites. Country-specific news publications are good for insights on local consumers and markets.
IPUMS
Access: Public
Geography: Global
Census and survey data from around the world integrated across time and space. IPUMS integration and documentation makes it easy to study change, conduct comparative research, merge information across data types, and analyze individuals within family and community context. From the University of Minnesota.
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