Whether you want to locate a whole dataset or you just need a few statistics to illustrate a point, the following resources are useful and authoritative sources:
Type of data | Database |
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Company data: UK & Ireland |
FAME: Financial Analysis Made Easy Refinitiv Workspace (Eikon/Datastream) |
Mergers & Acquisitions; Deals; IPOs: global |
Refinitiv Workspace (Eikon/Datastream) |
Financial data for banks and other financial institutions | S&P Capital IQ (Pro) |
Economics, Equities, Stock & Bond Market Indices, Exchange rates, Interest rates: global | Refinitiv Workspace (Eikon/Datastream) |
Economic & Financial data: global UK government survey data |
UK Data Service |
All topics (Economy; Business, Industry & Trade; Employment & Labour Market; Health; Education; Population; Welfare): United Kingdom |
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All topics: Europe | Eurostat |
Market research data (market sizes, market segmentation, market share, forecasts, compound annual growth rates: global |
Why use FAME?
FAME enables the user to:
Help with FAME:
Why use Zephyr?
What can I do?
Help with Zephyr:
Content and features
Access
Refinitiv Workspace has restricted access. If you need to use this resource ask your module co-ordinator or dissertation supervisor to contact the library team at SoMLibrary@swansea.ac.uk
Help
There is a comprehensive training suite for Refinitiv Workspace at Refinitiv Workspace Foundational Certificate | Refinitiv Training
S&P Capital IQ (Pro) (formerly S&P Global)
You can use S&P Capital IQ (Pro) to download data via Excel. To do this you need to use the University Remote PC access service. When logged into the remote PC go to the Unified Desktop, then School of Management, Specialist Apps and click on the icon named 'SNL-Excel Plugin'.
Why use Nexis UK?
Why use UK Data Service?
Help using the UK Data Service
The School of Management offers access to several expert financial databases. See the table below for a list of databases and their coverage.
WRDS (Wharton Research Data Services) is a platform that hosts the financial databases provided by the School of Management. To access the databases you will need to to apply for a WRDS account.
Note: You must also agree to the WRDS Terms of Use to complete your account application.
Need help? For support using the databases take a look at the 'support' in WRDS and the online manuals within each database. If you need further assistance please talk to your personal tutor.
Database |
Coverage: topics |
Coverage: geography & time period |
Compustat: Research Insight North America |
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United States Global |
CSMAR
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China 1990- present |
WRDS also provides access to:
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