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Consumer Historical Dataset Introduction

Data Axle (Infogroup) Historical Consumer Data

Data Axle (formerly known as Infogroup) Consumer Historical data is compiled from data provided by more than 100 sources including real estate, tax assessments, voter registrations, utility connections, bill processors and more. The historical files are available from 2006 to 2024.

Time Period: 2006-2024

Geographic Coverage and Unit: United States, households

Access Consumer Historical

To obtain access to Consumer Historical data, begin by submitting a request through the Library Mediated Accounts Request Form. Upon our review, the following two steps are required:

Complete a Data Management Plan using our template in DMPTool. You can login with your NetID and password by selecting the institutional login. Export your data management plan as a PDF, you will need to attach it in the next step. If you are an undergraduate student who is not working on a capstone project, skip this step and go to #2.
Submit Term of Use, consumer historical data is limited to use for personal academic research purposes only.

Note: Access is not available to researchers outside of NYU.

Primary status at NYU	Full raw data	Data Documentations	Anonymized sample
Undergraduate student	❌	✅	✅
Undergraduate student - completing a capstone	✅	✅	✅
Graduate student	✅	✅	✅
Staff	✅	✅	✅
Faculty	✅	✅	✅
Visiting scholar/scholar-in-residence	✅	✅	✅
Non-NYU collaborator	❌	❌	❌

Consumer Historical Supporting Documents

Supplementary documents: Product Brochure | File Layout | Data Summary

Once you have been granted access to the data, you can download it using one of two available options:

Downloading from Globus
Downloading from Research Workspace, project_name: consumer_historical | Instructions for mounting your drive.

Note:

Data is available in compressed CSV format as zipped files (.gz). The size of each file can be found in the Data Summary
Data can be downloaded either from the Research Workspace or Globus. However, accessing data files in the cloud (without downloading) is only possible through the Research Workspace.