Open e-commerce 1.0, five years of crowdsourced U.S. Amazon purchase histories with user demographics.

ABSTRACT: This is a first-of-its-kind dataset containing detailed purchase histories from 5027 U.S. Amazon.com consumers, spanning 2018 through 2022, with more than 1.8 million purchases. Consumer spending data are customarily collected through government surveys to produce public datasets and statistics, which serve public agencies and researchers. Companies now collect similar data through consumers' use of digital platforms at rates superseding data collection by public agencies. We published this dataset in an effort towards democratizing access to rich data sources routinely used by companies. The data were crowdsourced through an online survey and shared with participants' informed consent. Data columns include order date, product code, title, price, quantity, and shipping address state. Each

SUBMITTER: Berke A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11091104 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature