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Consumer Behavior

Choices 3 is an electronic version of Simmons Survey of Media and Markets. Choices 3 can be used to find the buyers and users of products at the brand level. Complex data sets can be manipulated within the crosstabulation reports to aid interpretation of the results. Choices 3 is available on computers 1-3 in the Management Library.
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Mintel provides in-depth market research reports for a wide variety of consumer goods and services. Each report includes a section for consumer behavior and contains primary market research data conducted by Mintel as well as other third-party research groups.
Global Market Information Database contains international market research data. Reports include information on consumer market sizes, market data & forecasts, and consumer lifestyles. GMID's consumer data contains detailed income, expenditure, and lifestyle statistics, as well as analysis of consumer lifestyle trends.
Selected Journals:
    Advances in Consumer Research
    Consumer Insight
    Journal of Consumer Behavior
    Journal of Consumer Psychology
    Journal of Consumer Research
A good source for information about consumers' personality traits, beliefs, and attitudes is The Lifestyle Market Analyst. Using profiles of more than 12 million households, The Lifestyle Market Analyst combines lifestyle, demographic, and geographic data in one publication.

Consumer Dimensions profiles the consumers of a large number of products and services and includes some hard-to-find data (i.e. "U.S. Adults Who Bought Greeting Cards by Select Demographics" or "Profile of Adults Who Attend Select Sporting Events").

The U.S. Department of Labor produces the Consumer Expenditure Survey that provides information on the buying habits of American consumers, including data on their expenditures, income, and consumer unit (families and single consumers) characteristics.

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