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Research Data Sources: Marketing

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Marketing data

Please note that the list is not exhaustive and we are working on it to include more entries.

(Click the data categories below to see more information) collapse all Commodity Price EIU market indicators & forecasts: Choose “Commodities” --> choose Series (Yearly/Quarterly indicators, Prices) and Years --> search. Datastream: Look into the Commodity category, choose your data type and run the request. Company Information Bloomberg: Enter company name and click "GO" for a full set of information related to that company. Or enter company ticker followed by "DES" ("CN" for news and research, "MCN" for most popular news) and <Equity> for descriptive information. EMIS: Goto Companies, and search with company names. Results can be exported as excel file. COMPUSTAT via WRDS: Goto Compustat --> Compustat Quarterly Updates --> Execucomp --> Annual Compensation, look into and choose the items listed in the Company Information box, set other criteria and search. Consumer Expenditure Passport: Look into COUNTRIES & CONSUMERS --> CONSUMERS --> Income & Expenditure --> select Consumer Expenditure in SEARCH TREE box --> Geographies. Consumer Products Passport: Goto Search --> Look into the entries under Industries in the Category Tree, and choose items of interest --> choose Geographies and run the search. MarketLine Advantage: Goto Market Data Analytics under Databases --> choose the product of interest from the Sector box --> choose Country and run the search. Or goto Country Statistics under Databases --> choose Countries --> look into Consumers/Consumer Durables under Classic indicators, and run the search. Consumer Segmentation Passport: Goto Search, look into the Category Tree --> Countries and Consumers --> Consumer Behaviour --> Consumer Segmentation --> choose data items of interest --> choose Geographies and run the search. Consumer Trends and Lifestyle (To be update) Earnings/Sales Estimates Bloomberg Household Expenditure Passport: Look into COUNTRIES & CONSUMERS --> Income and Expenditure --> Consumers, select Consumer Expenditure in SEARCH TREE box --> Consumer Expenditure by Resident Households --> Geographies. MarketLine Advantage: Choose "Country Statistics" in Databases, choose indicators (Classic, Economy, Consumer Expenditure, Household Final Consumption Expenditure, Local Currency) & countries of your choice. Household Income Passport: Countries & Consumers --> Income --> select data categories related to income, eg. Annual Disposable Income, etc. Data available from the year 1990. MarketLine Advantage: Choose "Country Statistics" in Databases, choose indicators (Classic, Economy, Consumer Expenditure, Household Income, Gross, Local Currency) & countries of your choice. Industry Information MarketLine Advantage: Directly search with the name of industry of interest, look into any of the result entries, check out the panels contains industry statistics, ie. Market Data, Market Segmentation, Macroeconomic Indicators, Market Outlook. Life Expectancy Passport: Goto Search --> Input "life expectancy" for Filter Tree --> choose Geographies --> See Data Now or Run Search. Population MarketLine Advantage: Choose "Country Statistics" under Databases, choose relavant indicators (Classic, Demographics, Population, Population by Gender/Age Distribution/Rural/Urban/Population by Marital Status) and country. Passport

 

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