LibGuides: Economics: Data & Statistics

Sources of international data...

Include:

OECD Main Economic Indicators
Comparative statistics providing an overview of recent international economic developments.
Includes:
- wide range of short-term economic indicators for the OECD member countries
- 5 area totals
- data for selected non-member countries

World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI) This link opens in a new window
WDI is the primary World Bank database for development data from officially-recognized international sources.
GDF provides external debt and financial flows statistics for countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt under the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS).

World Economic Outlook (WEO) Databases
Data collated as part of the IMF's biannual publishing of World Economic Outlook Reports

Passport GMID: Global Market Information Database (Euromonitor) This link opens in a new window
Provides business intelligence on industries, countries, and consumers. It offers integrated access to statistics, reports, insightful comment and business information sources. Coverage is global, more than 200 countries are researched. Users need to register using an "otago.ac.nz email" address.
OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
The online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development for books, papers, periodicals and statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data.

International Financial Statistics Online (via IMF)
Source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation. For example data on: exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions and government and national accounts

New Zealand Statistics

Sources of New Zealand statistics include:

New Zealand official year-book
Central Library holds paper copies of 1892-2010.
New Zealand digitised yearbooks
1893 - 2012
Statistics New Zealand
Statistics groups include Business, Industry Sector, Economic Indicators

Infoshare This link opens in a new window
Click an finance-related subject category
Statistics for Universities This link opens in a new window
NZ universities' research staff and student access to specialised statistical products and data packages

Country information

Country surveys, descriptions and statistics can be found using the Library Search | Ketu, Article Databases and the internet.

For example:

Europa world plus
Electronic resource accessed via the Library Search | Ketu

Passport GMID: Global Market Information Database (Euromonitor) This link opens in a new window
Information covering over 200 countries.

OFFSTATS - Official Statistics on the Web
Provides access to freely available statistics found on the web.
OFFSTATS is maintained by the University of Auckland Library.

Company information and data

Search the Catalogue, Article Databases, and the internet, for information about companies.

For example:

Factiva
Click the Companies/Markets tab, to search company details,
from 1980.
- 5 user licences
New Zealand Companies Office
FREE to search company information
NZX Company Research (formerly Datex)
New Zealand company information. Provides current and historical analysis of company data including annual report and financial data, from 1999.
TableBase
Provides tabular data on companies, industries, products, demographics and other key business information, from 1994.
- 20 user licences
Audit Analytics
Contains detailed research on over 20,000 public companies and more than 1,500 accounting firms.
Bloomberg
Provides both real-time and archived financial and market data, pricing, trading, news and communication tools in a single, integrated package.
To access this database, contact the Accountancy & Finance Department
Datastream
Enables times series analysis across a broad range of financial instruments. Contains international data.
CRSP - US Stock Database
Contains stock history back to 1925 with daily and monthly data on all listed NYSE, AMEX, NYSE Amex US, NASDAQ, and NYSE ARCA common stocks along with basic market indices.
To access this database, go to either the Accountancy & Finance Department in the Commerce Building or the Central Library's PC ERAUser01
CRSP / Compustat Merged Database (CCM)
Access via CRSPSift interface. Pdf userguide available. Database provides concurrent database access to CRSP's stock data and Compustat's fundamental data for active and inactive companies. Data is available from 1925.

Share Prices & Stock Exchanges

Search the internet for information on share prices and stock exchanges.

For example:

Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)
Australian stock exchange
Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE)
European stock exchanges
New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX)
New Zealand stock exchange
New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
New York stock exchange
Worldwide Stock Exchanges
Website includes links to stock exchanges for a range of countries