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Statistical Datasets in category D4: Economic Processes and Indicators, USA


  • IRRC-Corporate Governance and Directors Datasets

    The Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) provides independent research and data covering corporate governance provisions for individual firms in Corporate Takeover Defenses, proxy voting and corporate responsibility issues. These data are derived from a variety of public sources including corporate bylaws and charters, proxy statements, annual reports, as well as 10-K and 10-Q documents filed with the SEC. The IRRC's universe is drawn from the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 as well as the annual lists of the largest corporations in the publications of Fortune, Forbes, and Business Week. The IRRC's sample expanded by several hundred firms in 1998 through additions of some smaller firms and firms with high institutional-ownership levels. The IRRC tracks 22 charter provisions, bylaw provisions, and other firm-level rules plus coverage under six state takeover laws; duplication between firm-level provisions and state laws yields 24 unique provisions. This version of the data set has information on 3990 companies and covers years: 1990, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2003. The data set contains 56 variables (almost all of which are binary indicators) and 10121 observations.

    The IRRC dataset on corporate governance was used in the article: Gompers, Paul A., Andrew Metrick, and Joy L. Ishii, Corporate Governance and Equity Prices, The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(1), February 2003.

    List of variables

    The data is available in the following formats:

    Stata

    http://fmwww.bc.edu/VDC/irrc/irrc.dta.gz

    SAS Transport

    http://fmwww.bc.edu/VDC/irrc/irrc.tpt.gz

    SPSS

    http://fmwww.bc.edu/VDC/irrc/irrc.sav.gz

  • COMPUSTAT-INDA : Standard and Poor's COMPUSTAT Industrial Annual file

    The COMPUSTAT Industrial Annual (P-S-T) file contains balance sheet and income statement data for 4,201 current U.S.corporations. The industrial annual dataset contains 20 years of data (1986-2005). A separate dataset lists the firms available. These datasets are available for download in Stata, SAS (version 8 for Unix) and SPSS formats.

    List of variables

    Stata format (in gzipped form):

    Names file | Industrial Annual file (Years 1986-2005) 32 Mb

       Additional Years:
          Names file | Industrial Annual file (Years 1967-1986) 9 Mb
          Names file | Industrial Annual file (Years 1950-1969) 2.2 Mb

    SAS format (in gzipped form):

    Names file | Industrial Annual file (Years 1986-2005)   31 Mb

       Additional Years:
          Names file | Industrial Annual file (Years 1967-1986)   10 Mb
          Names file | Industrial Annual file (Years 1950-1969)   3.4 Mb

    SPSS format (in gzipped form):

    Names file | Industrial Annual file (Years 1986-2005)   26 Mb

       Additional Years:
          Names file | Industrial Annual file (Years 1967-1986)   8 Mb
          Names file | Industrial Annual file (Years 1984-2003)   3.4 Mb


    Full coverage: Names file [Stata] [SAS] Data file [Stata] [SAS]
    Warning: the ungzipped Stata file is 1.7 Gb, which may require more memory than on a typical machine.
     

     
  • COMPUSTAT-INDQ: Standard and Poor's COMPUSTAT Industrial Quarterly file

    The COMPUSTAT Industrial Quarterly (P-S-T) file contains balance sheet and income statement data for 4,199 current U.S. corporations. The industrial quarterly dataset contains 11 years of data (1993q1-2004q4). A separate dataset lists the firms available. These datasets are available for download in Stata, SAS (version 8 for Unix) and SPSS formats.

    List of variables

    Stata format (in gzipped form):

    Names file | Industrial Quarterly file (Years 1993-2004)   30.3 Mb

       Additional Years:
          Names file | Industrial Quarterly file (Years 1982-1993)   19 Mb
          Names file | Industrial Quarterly file (Years 1971-1982)   7.2 Mb
          Names file | Industrial Quarterly file (Years 1962-1973)   2.8 Mb

    SAS format (in gzipped form):

    Names file | Industrial Quarterly file (Years 1993-2004)   36 Mb

       Additional Years:
          Names file | Industrial Quarterly file (Years 1982-1993)   21.8 Mb
          Names file | Industrial Quarterly file (Years 1971-1982)   8.9 Mb
          Names file | Industrial Quarterly file (Years 1962-1973)   3.7 Mb

    SPSS format (in gzipped form):

    Names file | Industrial Quarterly file (Years 1993-2004)   42 Mb

       Additional Years:
          Names file | Industrial Quarterly file (Years 1982-1993)   22 Mb
           Names file | Industrial Quarterly file (Years 1971-1982)   9.1 Mb
           Names file | Industrial Quarterly file (Years 1962-1973)   3.6 Mb

  • COMPUSTAT-BANK: Standard and Poor's COMPUSTAT Bank files

    The COMPUSTAT bank files contain balance sheet and income statement data for over 700 current U.S. banks and bank holding companies. The annual dataset contains 20 years of data, while the quarterly dataset contains 12 years of data. Time period of the data availability for a company is dependent upon when that company was added to the database and/or when the data item itself was first added to the database. The Annual Research file has data on firms that used to be on COMPUSTAT, but are no longer for reasons such as merger, acquisition, and bankruptcy, etc. Both the Annual and the Annual Research files are needed if, for example, one is interested in all the firms over given time period. Separate datasets list the firms available. These datasets are available for download in Stata and SAS (version 8 for Unix) formats.

    Lists of variables: annual | quarterly

    Stata format (in gzipped form):

    Names file | Annual file | Quarterly file

    Names file | Annual Research

    SAS format (in gzipped form):

    Names file | Annual file | Quarterly file

    Names file | Annual Research

    SPSS format (in gzipped form):

    Names file | Annual file | Quarterly file

    Names file | Annual Research

  • DRI-Global Insight Basic Economics Indicators: annual, quarterly, monthly 1930-, via browser
  • FEDERAL RESERVE H.15: Daily interest rates

    The H.15 release contains daily interest rates for selected U.S. Treasury and private money market and capital market instruments. It is published weekly.

    List of variables

    Stata format (download over the web):

     use http://econ.bc.edu/d4/h15.dta   4 Mb 

  • FEDERAL RESERVE H.10: Daily exchange rates

    The H.10 release contains daily rates of exchange of major currencies against the U.S. dollar. The data are noon buying rates in New York for cable transfers payable in the listed currencies. The rates have been certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for customs purposes as required by section 522 of the amended Tariff Act of 1930.

    List of variables

    Stata format (download over the web):

     use http://econ.bc.edu/d4/h10.dta   3 Mb


  • Last modified: 3 April 2008