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Cultural trends

Question
Can anyone recommend resources for finding cultural trend information? I have identified several pubs like: American Demographics, Futurist, Trend Letter. I also know about market research sites like: Iconoculture, Youth Intelligence, Nextpert; and opinion sites like Harris and Gallup. (Dianne White, 11/21/2003)

Responses
You might try USA Today. Trends used to be "their thing".

You could try trend expert Faith Popcorn's website at: http://www.faithpopcorn.com/

US Statistical Abstract is often used for analyzing trends

American Demographics Magazine and the various Pew Research Center Surveys (see, for example, www.people-press.org, and its Pew Internet and American Life surveys at http://www.pewinternet.org/)

Try Trendsetters.com, http://www.trendsetters.com/ Can be very superficial and product-focussed, but sometimes very interesting. Michael Tchong has also just published a report called 2004 Trendscape was released last week.

Tom Peters is usually on top of a many cultural trends, especially as they relate to business : www.tompeters.com. Another source of fun cultural trends is Lake Superior State University's "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness" : www.lssu.edu/banished/

INTERNATIONAL TRENDS
Here's a handful of possibilities and there are others depending on the audience level and specifics you require.

Asia Market Intelligence (AMI)
http://www.ami-group.com/asiabus/index.php
Also: http://tinyurl.com/w1go

Euromonitor Consumer Lifestyle Reports
https://www.euromonitor.com/results_industry.asp?icode=LL
also: Global Market Information Database (GMID)

Roper Reports Worldwide
http://www.roperasw.com/products/rrw.html

UNESCO Annual Statistical Yearbook

Other related sources are UNESCO's World Reports in the domain of education, science, culture, communication and social science. Data is also used in the UN Statistical Yearbook, the World Bank's World Development Report, the UNDP's Human Development Report, the ILO Statistical Yearbook, and the ITU Statistical Yearbook.

Cultural Briefings
http://www.culturebriefings.com/articles/artindex.html

Consumers in Europe http://tinyurl.com/6z7x