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Data Axle Reference Solutions Historical Consumer Data (2006-2023)

Data Axle Reference Solutions Historical Consumer data collection provides access to household data from 2006 through 2023. Household income, home value, years in residence and location are just some of the categories included. ReferenceUSA is a product of Data Axle, formerly Infogroup.

Access

Access to Data Axle Reference Solutions data is limited to current MSU affiliates only and requires login with your MSU NetID and password. Redistribution is not permitted.

Guidelines for Acceptable Use

Prohibition of commercial use, and guidelines for acceptable use:

The data is only for academic or private study in compliance with applicable laws. You are strictly prohibited from redistributing or reselling of the data. You may publish limited excerpts and a summarized or aggregated statistics or analysis of the data in academic and scholarly works but not the data in raw form. Please review additional terms here: https://libguides.lib.msu.edu/c.php?g=95386&p=623717.

BY CONTINUING TO USE THIS DATA COLLECTION YOU ARE AGREEING TO ACCEPT THESE TERMS.

Data

You can download the data as compressed files:

Please note: The files are very large with file size around 8-14 GB each year. Files will not open in Excel or Notepad due to their large size. The files will need to be used in a statistical program such as Stata, SPSS or SAS to search/filter/sort and to extract subsets of interest.

Documentation

 

Historical Consumer/Residential Layout. Variable spreadsheet provided by vendor.

Questions?

Please direct any questions about Data Axle Reference Solutions data to Breezy Silver.

How to Cite (APA Style)

Data Axle (YYYY). Data Axle Reference Solutions Consumer Data [data file]. Retrieved from: https://lib.msu.edu/data/DataAxleConsumer/

Note: Replace YYYY with the year of the file being cited.

Related Resources

Access to the current consumer/residential information is available in the Data Axle Reference Solutions database.