Download Horizontal Group to consider Global Business Browser

Using Commercial datasets to
produce entrepreneurship
indicators – progress report
OECD Entrepreneurship Indicators Steering
Group Meeting
Nadim Ahmad, Statistics Directorate, OECD
Istanbul 25-26 June 2007
Background
• OECD micro-level data feasibility study
• Recruited Consultant to examine Amadeus & ORBIS
databases – Firm level data, balance sheet
information, Europe/R.O.W. Final Report end August.
• OECD Horizontal Group considering all commercial
datasets – consultant will start to evaluate all
datasets, beginning August.
Findings so far
• Issues – Quality, Coverage, Representivity, good EU
coverage but thresholds differ across countries.
– ORBIS quality in OECD countries generally good.
– Proposal to link with SBS data.
– But coverage of micro-enterprises limited
• Rich source for entrepreneur characteristics –
owners, high-growth, industry, etc
Horizontal Group to consider
• AMADEUS: uses official sources, extensive company coverage
– over 6 million European companies. Ownership Database
includes group structures and shareholders with their
percentage of interest. An Independence Indictor signifies a
company’s degree of independence with its shareholders.
Uniform industry codes, cross-referenced to all national and
international codes. Integrated analysis functionality and flexible
pricing options
• ORBIS combines data from all of Bureau van Dijk’s company
information databases, provides info on 10 million companies,
including approximately 8 million European companies from 34
countries. Further information: www.bvdep.com
• Thomson Financial 12 databases containing 6 million source
documents, emphasis is on Europe. Further information:
research.thomsonib.com
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Global Business Browser Very full financial data. Extensive industry
data from data providers such as Thomson Investext,
Dunn and Bradsteet provides information on 75 million companies in
214 countries worldwide. It offers individual company/country reports
which can be purchased online. Further information: www.dnb.com
Dialog Company Profiles provides seamless access to a wide variety
of well known databases, covers approx 52,000 European companies.
Financial data includes balance sheet, insider buyer and selling
information, and major shareholders. Further
information: www.dialog.com/products/companyprofiles/
FT.com offers the World Company Financial service which provides
access to summary financials of more than 18,000 public companies
from approximately 55 countries. Further information:
www.ft.com
DEALogic –M&A activity worldwide covering transactions including
public offers, open market purchases, stock swaps, buy-outs,
privatizations, recapitalisations, share buy-backs and acquisitions.
Each transaction provides information on target and acquiror, deal
value, advisers, financials, multiples along with a detailed deal
commentary. Further information: www.dealogic.com/