If you want to know more about how to find economic and social data, please feel free to join the following database training workshops.
Topics covered in each workshop:
- Overview of the content of the database and its sub-databases
- Basic and advanced searching skills
- Features and functions of the database
- Q & A session
Passport
Contains volume and value sales statistics for consumer, industrial and services markets across 82 countries worldwide. It also provides a wide range of data on business enterprise including consumer market sizes, consumer lifestyles, companies and brands as well as market research reports, country profiles and socio-economic statistics.
Date: 11 Oct (Wed) 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Speaker: Mr Sebetian Tan, Euromonitor International
Language: English
Venue: User Education Room 2, G/F, University Library
Click here to register online
eiu.com
Provides full-text access to reports published by the Economist Intelligence Unit, covering a wide range of business information. Titles include Country Forecast, China Hand, CountryData, Market Indicators and Forecasts, and Global Forecasting Service.
Date: 17 Oct (Tue) 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Speaker: Mr. Nick Marro, Economist Intelligence Unit
Language: English
Venue: User Education Room 2, G/F, University Library
Click here to register online
CNKI Statistical Yearbook Database (中國統計年鑒數據庫)
Contains 624 statistical yearbooks in 39 regions. Data retrieval and data analysis by regions, years, and other indicators are available.
Date: 26 Oct (Thu) 2:30 p.m.– 3:30 p.m.
Speaker: Training Specialist, CNKI
Language: Putonghua
Venue: User Education Room 2, G/F, University Library
Click here to register online
Thomson Reuters Eikon
This is the new version of the DataStream Professional which is a financial research database providing a wide range of financial data including financial instruments such as equities, equity indices, bonds, bond indices, futures, warrants, options, and credit default swaps as well as economic data, fundamental company accounts data.
Date: 31 Oct (Tue) 2:30 p.m.– 3:30 p.m.
Speaker: Ms Winnie Tang, Client Specialist, Thomson Reuters
Language: English
Venue: User Education Room 2, G/F, University Library
Click here to register online
Enquiries: email to
eref@lib.cuhk.edu.hk
