Show Me How: To Use IBISWorld

US Industry Research

• US NAICS Industry Reports – 700+ reports for every 5-digit NAICS code
• US Specialized Industry Reports – 700+ reports on smaller or new industries
• iExpert Summaries – quick industries' snapshots derived from US NAICS Industry reports or US Specialized Industry reports including a section on Call Preparation Questions

Report Features

• All industry reports are similarly structured, regularly updated, and provide in-depth industry analysis, key statistics, segmentation, market characteristics, industry conditions, key factors, competitors, industry performance and outlook.
• Charts included in the reports are interactive and can be downloaded into PNG or CSV. They can also be viewed as tables.
• Downloading reports: With the report opened, click the Download icon  in the upper right corner and select PDF, Word, Excel or PowerPoint to download the entire report. You can also download by chapters.

Keyword Search: Search across the entire database. Enter keyword(s) in the search box in the center on the Home page or at any time in the Search box located in the top right corner of every page. You can also search by industry, company, and NAICS code. 

Examples:

• Keyword: tortilla chips, deodorant
• Company: Starbucks
• NAICS Code: 722511
• Industry: Snack Food

Browse by Industry Sector: Click on Industries to browse by sector. It will also give you the NAICS code for that industry. 

• IBISWorld reports are made up of chapters. You can either click on the chapters on the left side of the report or scroll through the reports and each chapter will load as you scroll. 
• Don't forget you can download the entire report or chapter by click on the download arrow on the right side of the report.
• If you click on the i About this industry it will provide you with an overview of the industry, including what NAICS codes, companies, related terms, related industries and link out to additional resources. 

This feature in IBISWorld reports allows you to convert select sections from list-style to paragraph format. 

• Paragraph Builder uses a large language model (LLM) to ingest our analyst-written list-style analysis and generate a natural language paragraph-style version of the written analysis. 
• It uses a third-party Azure OpenAI Service and the input from their proprietary data and analysis to reformat the list-style analysis into paragraphs.
• This is available for Current Performance, Industry Outlook, Products and Services, Major Markets, International Trade, Business Locations, and Cost Structure sections of IBISWorld reports.

You can enable paragraph analysis at the top of the Current Performance, Industry Outlook, Products and Services, Major Markets, International Trade, Business Locations, and Cost Structure sections.

From IBISWorld Paragraph Builder FAQ.

Format

Report Author. (date). Report title (Report number). IBISWorld. URL of database homepage

Example

Fernandez, C. (2020, March). Paint manufacturing in the US (US Industry Report 32551). IBISWorld. https://my.ibisworld.com/

In-Text Example

Parenthetical: (Fernandez, 2020)

Narrative: "... as mentioned by Fernandez (2020),"