Business Data Links

Best websites for Business Data
 
The internet is full of economic data, if you know where to look for it. Below are links to some of the best sources of economic data published by various websites. You can get macro and micro datasets to use in economics and finance research and empirical work.
 
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Data-Broker.co.uk
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Datamarket.com
An excellent resource of business and economic data providing access to thousands of data sets from a range of well known data providers. The site allows the data to be searched, visualized, compared and downloaded in a single place in a standard, unified manner.
 
 
City-Data.com
Provides data on US states and cities. You can get data on population, house prices, unemployment, education, health and much more.
 
 
Zanran.com
Zanran is like a google for finding data. The search engine finds ‘semi-structured’ data on the web. This is the numerical data that people have presented as graphs, spreadsheets, tables and charts. This data information can be difficult to locate using traditional search engines, which are focused primarily on finding text rather than graphs.
 
 
Statista.com
The Statista website has statistical data on over 600 international industries from more than 18,000 sources. Data comes from market researchers, trade organizations, scientific journals, and government databases.
 
 
Quandl.com
This is a great resource for students and researchers. Once you sign in there is access to over 9 million economic, financial and social data sets. You can see a variety of sources where the data may exist and download and graph the data. A superb resource.
 
 
dreamtolearn.com/data
Here is a fantastic list of thousands of links to useful data. Just take your pick !
 
 
 
Business Dynamics Statistics
The Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) provides annual measures of business dynamics for the United States. These include job creation and destruction, establishment births and deaths, and firm startups and shutdowns for the economy. The stats are aggregated by establishment and firm characteristics.
 
 
worldbank.org/governance
The World Bank Governance indicators provide a rich dataset of various governance indicators on a scale of 1 to 4 on the following criteria Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality Rule of Law and Control of Corruption. You can check countries for the period 1995-2013.
 
 
Statista.com
An excellent source of business statistics, their data covers a wide range of different industries and loads of large companies. You can graph data and even produce infographics. They also provide market research reports. Excellent resource.
 
 
Enterprisesurveys.org/Data
Enterprise Surveys offers an expansive array of economic data on 130,000 firms in 135 countries. The data is presented in a variety of ways useful to researchers, policy makers, journalists, and others
 
 
WorldBankEnvironmentSurvey
The World Business Environment Survey (WBES) is a survey of over 10,000 firms in 80 countries and one territory conducted in 1999-2000 that examines a wide range of interactions between firms and the state. Based on face-to-face interviews with firm managers and owners, WBES is designed to generate comparative measurements in such areas as corruption, judiciary, lobbying, and the quality of the business environment, which can then be related to specific firm characteristics and firm performance.

 

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