Using Commercial datasets to produce entrepreneurship indicators progress

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

Horizontal Group to consider • • • 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/