ReferenceUSA Historical Consumer Datasets

Dataset available only to University of Arizona affiliates. To obtain access, you must log in to ReDATA with your NetID. Data is for research use by each individual downloader only. Sharing and/or redistribution of any portion of this dataset is prohibited.

This ReferenceUSA dataset from Data Axle (formerly Infogroup) contains household data about US consumers in annual snapshots from 2006-2021. It includes details such as family demographics, income, home ownership status, lifestyle, location and more, which can help users to create marketing plans and conduct competitive analyses.

Consumer profiles are described with 58-66 indicators. Data for all states are combined into single files for each year between 2006 and 2012 while there is a file for each state in 2013-2021. The Layout - Consumer DB Historical 2006-2012.xlsx in Documentation.zip applies to 2006-2012. Codebooks for 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021 are not included but files in 2013-2021 have similar layouts therefore 2016 Historical Residential File Layout.xlsx and 2020 Historical Residential File Layout.xlsx in Documentation.zip apply to 2013-2021.

The University of Arizona University Libraries also subscribe to Data Axle Reference Solutions which provides this data in a searchable, online database with historical data available going back to 2003.

NOTE: The uncompressed datasets are very large.

Detailed file descriptions and MD5 hash values for each file can be found in the README.txt file.

For inquiries regarding the contents of this dataset, please contact the Corresponding Author listed in the README.txt file. Administrative inquiries (e.g., removal requests, trouble downloading, etc.) can be directed to data-management@arizona.edu