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EBRPL Resources for Nonprofits: Research Data

Library resources to assist non-profits

Gale Business: DemographicsNow

Gale Business: DemographicsNow connects users with a wealth of highly detailed demographic data on more than 24 million U.S. businesses and 206 million consumers—making it ideal for gaining consumer and market insight.

The product's reporting capability enables users to easily and rapidly produce a variety of compiled reports—both standard and custom—to help make informed and accurate decisions.

The demographics tool leverages Census data, consumer expenditures, retail spending, and Mosaic Lifestyle market segmentation groupings to helps users "crunch" data in easy-to-use report formats providing complete demographic information for any geographic territory—from a summary report to a comparison of up to sixteen different geographies within a single report. DemographicsNow Can Help:

  • Choose a business location
  • Research competitors
  • Analyze market size
  • Build direct marketing lists
  • Profile current and potential customers
  • Forecast trends
  • Uncover consumer buying patterns

Baton Rouge City Key

Baton Rouge City Key brings non-biased data, local resources and a wealth of information to one, accessible, user-friendly location. The intent is to give our community the tools we need to read and understand the public health indicators that affect the quality of our residents' lives. The tools can also help the community set goals and evaluate progress.

Community groups, schools, health associations, chambers of commerce, tourism and many other organizations can use this information to show the great benefits of living in Baton Rouge as well as opportunities for improvement, with specific information. Master planners and government can use this data to establish community goals on a variety of platforms. The data is updated whenever source data is updated providing the most up-to-date information of its kind.

ReferenceUSA is now Data Axle Reference Solutions

Data Axle Reference Solutions: The premier source of business and residential information for reference and research, small business marketing, creating marketing lists for nonprofits and more.

Access requires an East Baton Rouge Parish Library card.

Mergent Intellect

Mergent and Nielsen partnership provides a variety of demographics reports Prizm reports offer information on 66 demographics and behavior types or segments for every U.S. household. Great for creating marketing lists.

PolicyMap

PolicyMap is available through the East Baton Rouge Parish Library. While direct access is not available to the public, talk to a librarian about the data you are looking for and we can provide it to you from PolicyMap.

PolicyMap offers easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs and more in communities across the US. From the classroom to the boardroom, thousands of organizations trust PolicyMap to find the right data for their research, market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications and impact analysis.