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Philadelphia Business - Research Guide
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Also see the Current Information about Philadelphia Research Guide. Many current resources listed are also available historically online or in the print collection.
Board of Revision of Taxes - Philadelphia, PA. Agency responsible for the establishment of real property values.
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission. Nine county, two state regional cooperative organization providing services to member governments such as planning analysis, data collection and mapping. Includes over 650 reports dating from 1988.
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Includes regional research and reports such as the Business Review and the Business Outlook Survey. Links to all research and working papers can be found here.
Office of the Director of Finance for the City of Philadelphia. Financial reports, including the Budget Detail and Comprehensive Annual Financial Report.
Philadelphia City Planning Commission. Includes city planning reports and documents such as: The FY2011-2016 Capital Program and Philadelphia 2035: The Comprehensive Plan.
Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corp. Information about visiting Philadelphia and tourism research reports.
Philadelphia International Airport. Includes Aviation Activity Reports from 1998 to the present.
Philadelphia Research Initiative. From the Pew Charitable Trusts. Research and analysis about key issues in Philadelphia.
Philadelphia Stock Exchange. Annual Reports and the Member List are also accessible.
County Business Patterns. From the US Census Bureau.
County and City Data Book. From the US Census Bureau.
Metropolitan Philadelphia Indicators Project. From Temple University. Includes an annual report titled "Where We Stand: Community Indicators for Metropolitan Philadelphia".
Mid-Atlantic Information Office of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Regional economic indicators,
including the Philadelphia Regional Office CPI (Consumer Price Index) Announcement.
NIS NeighborhoodBase. Web based maps integrated with over 275 data elements in eight
catagories: housing characteristics, land use, property ownership, property taxes and revenue, real estate sales, utility information, vacancy &
abandonment indicators, and US Census data.
Pennsylvania Department of Health,
Statistics. Includes statistics on births, deaths, marriage, divorce, injury, cancer, communicable disease, health facilities, and more. Pennsylvania Department of Labor
& Industry Workforce Information. Includes downloadable reports on careers, the civilian labor force, wages, top employers, and demographics.
Pennsylvania State Data Center. Demographic and economic data for PA.
Philadelphia (City) QuickFacts. From the US Census Bureau.
The following is a sample of Philadelphia business specific titles available at our library. To browse additional titles, search Franklin, our online catalog, for Subject Keywords such as: Philadelphia business,
Philadelphia directories, Philadelphia commerce, Philadelphia industries, etc.
Book of Business Lists. Philadelphia Business Journal.
County and City Extra: Annual Metro, City and County Data Book.
Dalton Philadelphia Metro Business Directory : Philadelphia/suburbs/South Jersey/Delaware.
Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce membership directory and business guide.
Greater Philadelphia Media Guide.
McElroy's
Philadelphia City Directory and The Philadelphia Directory. Historical directories dating from 1785-1867.
Pennsylvania Industrial Directory.
Philadelphia Municipal Documents.
Historical directories and ordinances available through Archive.com.
New Jersey Business. Jan. 1960 - current.
HC 108 P5 B665 (Lippincott Library Reference Desk). Online version contains the past year.
HA202 .A365 (Lippincott Library Reference Stacks, most current at Lippincott Reference Desk)
HC108.P5 D34 (Lippincott Library Reference Desk)
HF5041 .C536 (Lippincott Library Reference Desk)
P88.8 .G732 (Van Pelt Reference Desk)
HC107.P4 A28 (Lippincott Library Reference Desk). Includes sales estimates for companies and is organized by location, industry, and product category, as well as alphabetically by company.
HC107.N5 N38 (Lippincott Library, unbound issues in Lippincott Current Periodicals.
Available from 1990 through Factiva. Go to Search, Search Builder, enter New Jersey
Business in the Find a Source box, click on Publication: New Jersey Business to choose it, enter your keyword search terms in the free text box.
Latest year only retained in Lippincott Current Periodicals on Oversize Shelves and in the online version.
Philadelphia Daily News. Also searchable through NewsBank. Current issues are held in the Current Periodicals section of the library until the
microfilm is received.
Philadelphia Inquirer. Also searchable through NewsBank. Current issues are held in the Current Periodicals section of the library until the microfilm is received.
Philadelphia Magazine.
HC108.P5 G7 (Van Pelt, Unbound issues at Periodicals Desk)
Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
ReferenceUSA. A database to generate lists of businesses, searchable by geographic area.
Select Greater Philadelphia. An economic development marketing program. Contains statistics and data about doing business in Philadelphia. Also contains an annual downloadable regional report with sector information.
