 Hey there, Chad Boninger here for High University Libraries, coming to you with a quick business research video. We've got several students who are currently looking for statistics on the outdoor recreation industry on the global level. It's pretty easy to find US statistics, but we're going to look for global statistics in a database called Passport. And because there's not really statistics on people who do hiking, canoeing, hang gliding, rock climbing in other countries, what we'll be looking at is retail sales and consumer expenditures on outdoor equipment across global markets. So here you go. So we're going to use a database called Passport. And because we can't find the actual statistics to people who do hiking or go camping or do rock climbing or do canoeing in global countries, what we're going to do is use consumer expenditure data as a proxy, kind of a way to kind of say, well, this is good enough for making our guesstimates of how the global market is, okay? So what we're going to do is we're going to go to consumers, and we're going to look at income and expenditure. So we're going to look at consumer expenditures on leisure and recreation products. So once we get to this income expenditure homepage here, we're just going to go down and look at statistics. And we're going to select a category here, and I want consumer expenditure by category. And then once it's, we've made a selection, we just click go. This will bring up a categories and topics page here, and everything in here that's got these little nested icons here, you can actually go deeper into the section there. So I'm going to go deeper here, and here we have consumer expenditure on footwear, household goods and services, et cetera, things like that. There is one for leisure and recreation, and since the outdoor industry requires you to do leisure or take vacation or go outside and have fun, it's going to fall underneath this area here. So we're going to continue to kind of drop down here, and here we see there is consumer expenditure on other major durables for recreation and culture. So that sounds good. If I click on it, it will go up here in our top category. I'm just going to uncheck that one because this is the only one I want right now. Now if we click on the little icon here, it'll tell us what this entails. So this is the major durables for outdoor recreation includes camper vans, aeroplanes, sails, rigging, canoes, kayaks, windsurfing, golf carts, boats, camper vans, caravans, et cetera, et cetera. Now however, this also includes musical instruments and other major durables for indoor recreation. Okay, so you got to bear that in mind. So this is going to include some indoor recreation stuff. Unfortunately, there's not a way to parse that out. There's no way to separate the two inside of passport. So this is about as good as we have for that kind of information. But it'll tell you what it excludes. You don't have your horses or things like that, swimming pools, that kind of stuff. You could also, if you're looking for other information, there is stuff on recreational and cultural services as well. If you want to click that when you could, give you the information here. This gives you stuff on expenditures at skating rinks and stuff like that. Or we have accessories and things like that for mountain guides, tour guides, services for bowling, ski boots, ice skates, et cetera, et cetera. So you could use that as well as a proxy. Okay, we're just going to use that for right now. I'm going to click on next. This takes us to the geography tabs here. We can select all. If we want to look at the world, we can click on world. Or we can go in and say, let's look at Western Europe. You can go in and select individual countries if you want. You can select all here. Or if you want, you can go back and then just click this guy here. And that will get everybody under the Western Europe area. Once you're satisfied with that, you click search. And this will give us all the different areas where we can look at these different consumer expenditures and that sort of thing, okay? So you can do that. You could also go back up and just do a search up here. Now that we know what this is called, we could say consumer expenditure on other, there it is, major durables for recreation culture in all countries. If we click on that, that's another way to get this kind of data set. And that gives us basically every single country in the world for those consumer expenditures. So you'll notice that we want to maybe convert this, right? So right now we're looking at different prices. We can change this to, you want to change this to currency and let's just do US dollars fixed exchange rates. And that will give us the expenditures on US dollars. So we're comparing similar currency across the board on those countries. So that's one way to find the information. I'm back at the passport homepage now and there's a way that you can find this information in a more visual context. And that's using the search dashboards feature, okay? And as before, we're looking at consumer information and we can select this and there's our income and expenditure again and we click go. You'll notice this isn't working. We actually need to either have flash downloaded on our computer or we have to enable or allow it. So I'm going to allow flash to work. I'm going to continue there. And after a few seconds, this global consumer expenditure broad category loads for, it gives you a global map here. Now what I'd encourage you to do is change the category up here. And so here's our consumer expenditure by category. And here is consumer expenditure on leisure and recreation. And here's our other recreational items or our other major household doorbells, let's use that one. Other major doorbells for recreation and culture, click go. And that gives us comparison globally. We can save this as a chart. We can export this to PowerPoint. We can use it at PowerPoint. You can also go in and say, oh, wow, Australia is really happening down there. If you click on Australia, it'll change the country down here. And then you can go down and explore in detail and get additional information about Australia for information like that. And all these, so you can find information about your specific countries that way. So a couple of different ways to find consumer expenditure on recreation, supplies and materials and equipment and that sort of thing as a way to hopefully address how big the outdoor recreation market is in other countries across the globe. So hopefully this gives you a good idea of how you can do that and find information.