Data Sources for the United States and Canada

ZoomProspector provides a number of powerful location based reports.  These reports are provided by a number of different data sources.  This list outlines the report, the data sources and update schedule.

• Labor Force Report
  • United States - provided by Applied Geographic Solutions and updated bi-annually.  Last updated August 2024. (Database Methodology Statements)
  • Canada - provided by Environics Analytics and updated annually.  Last updated December 2023. (Technical Documentation)

• Demographic Report
  • United States - provided by Applied Geographic Solutions and updated bi-annually.  Last updated August 2024. (Database Methodology Statements)
  • Canada - provided by Environics Analytics and updated annually.  Last updated December 2023. (Technical Documentation)

• Consumer Spending Report
  • United States - provided by Applied Geographic Solutions and updated bi-annually.  Last updated August 2024. (Database Methodology Statements)
  • Canada - provided by Environics Analytics and updated annually.  Last updated December 2023. (Technical Documentation)

• Wages Report
  • United States only - provided by Bureau of Labor Statistics and updated annually.  Last updated April 2022.

• Business Report
  • United States and Canada - provided by Data Axle (formerly InfoGroup) and updated daily.  Corrections can be submitted on their website at https://local-listings.data-axle.com/search

• Talent Pool Report
  • United States
    • Degrees Report - Data provided by the NCES IPEDS Data System. update annually.  Last updated April 2022.  Data reflects the 2019-2020 academic year.
    • Trades Report - Data provided by the Employment and Training Administration U.S. Department of Labor WIOA Database.  Last Updated November 2022
  • Canada
    • Degrees and Trades Report - Data provided by Statistics Canada.  Data reflects the 2021/2022 academic year.

• Occupation Data
  • United States and Canada - provided by EMSI.  Updated bi-annually. Last updated August 2023

• FDI
  • All Locations (requires additional license) - provided by fDi Intelligence. Updated bi-annually. Last updated October 2023.  Data reflects projects in the past 8 years.

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