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Citing Guide for Business Majors (APA 7th ed.)

Data sets

Citation elements include the author (which may be a corporate author rather than a personal name), the date, the title of the data set followed by the phrase "Data set" in brackets after the title, and the URL.

Example:

DataUSA. (2021). United States workforce and wage by location [Data set]. 

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/united-states#workforce-and-wage-by-location

Note:  If you do not have a direct URL to a data set in a specific format, such as a spreadsheet, use the URL for the website that includes the option to download the data.  For example, the URL in the citation above will take you to a data visualization (infographic) on the DataUSA site with the option to download the complete data set as a CSV file in Excel.

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