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Dr. Ka-fu Wong
ECON1003 Analysis of Economic Data
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1.
Data corner
GOALS
Illustrate a collection of useful and interesting data web sites.
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HK Census and Statistics Department
Press Releases on Statistical Data (http://www.info.gov.hk/censtatd/eng/press/index2.html)
Population
Labour
National Income and Balance of Payments Statistics
External Trade External Direct Investment Statistics of Hong Kong Industrial Production Building, Construction and Real Estate Statistics on Vessels, Port Cargo and Containers Price Index Commerce A brief commentary of the data is given.
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HK Census and Statistics Department
Frequently Asked Statistics (http://www.info.gov.hk/censtatd/eng/hkstat/index1.html)
Population and Vital Events
Labour and Employment
Wages and Payroll National Income Balance of Payments Account Consumer Price Indices External Trade Transport Commerce and Industry Building and Construction Short series of data available in Excel format.
Refer to various issues of Monthly Digest of Statistics or Annual Digest of Statistics for longer historical data.
Money and Finance Other Economic and Business Statistics
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HK Monetary Authority
Monthly Statistical Bulletin (http://www.info.gov.hk/hkma/eng/statistics/msb/index.htm)
Financial statistics summary
Money
Banking Money markets and debt instruments Exchange Fund Bills and Notes Exchange rates and interest rates Monetary market operation Exchange Fund and foreign currency reserves assets Data available in Excel format.
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The Big Brother is watching us!
The Central Intelligence Agency of the United States http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Introduction
Geography People Government
Economy Communications Transportation Military Transnational Issues On China: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.html
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Historical International Stock indices on-line
http://www.forecasts.org/data/index.htm
Stock index data
International Stock Indices-Monthly
Nikkei 225
DAX Japan Germany
Hang Seng
FTSE 100 Hong Kong United Kingdom
TSE 300 Canada
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Datastream
A database which provides international financial, economic, stock market and company data. Includes coverage of equities, stock market and bond indices, economic statistics, foreign exchange rates, interest rates, fixed income instruments and derivatives. Data may be downloaded and exported and can be used to create graphics, reports and spread sheets. Available at : HKU main Library, Standalone PC Format Location: Borrow from Reference Counter, Main Library
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International Financial Statistics (published by International Monetary Fund)
The International Finance Statistics (IFS) contains approximately 24,000 time series for 196 countries and geographical areas. These time series cover the following sections as detailed in the IMF International Finanance Statistics Yearbook -
Exchange Rates
Fund Accounts
International Liquidity International Banking Money and Banking Interest Rates
Prices, Wages, Production and Employment International Transactions Government Finance National Accounts and Population Available at HKU in the Network CD system, via Winframe.
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Global development finance (published by the World Bank)
Provides complete and up-to-date data and analysis on the external debt and international capital flows of developing countries.
Includes: country group aggregate data and World Bank analysis, from v.1 of Global Development Finance, and the country time series data, plus pipeline projections for 136 World Bank borrowers from v.2. Available at : HKU main Library Location: Borrow from Reference Counter, Main Library
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The World Development Indicators (published by the World Bank)
The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's premier annual compilation of data about development. WDI 2002 includes approx. 800 indicators in 87 tables, organized in six sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. The tables cover 152 economies and 14 country groups-with basic indicators for a further 55 economies. Available at : HKU main Library Location: Borrow from Reference Counter, Main Library
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O
rganization for
E
conomic
C
ooperation and
D
evelopment
http://www.oecd.org/ http://www.oecdwash.org/DATA/online.htm
Available online in pdf format.
Gross Domestic Product
Composite Leading Indicators
Standardized Unemployment Rates
Population
Purchasing Power Parities
Short-Term Economic Statistics Available in CD-ROM in HKU library.
OECD Main economic indicators (Historical statistics)
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
OPEC production Quota distribution as of 1 February 2003.
http://www.opec.org/
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Country Algeria Indonesia Iran Kuwait Libya Nigeria Qatar S. Arabia UAE Venezuela Total Quota (b/d) 782,000 1,270,000 3,597,000 1,966,000 1,312,000 2,018,000 635,000 7,963,000 2,138,000 2,819,000 24,500,000 Percentage 3.19
5.18
14.68
8.02
5.36
8.24
2.59
32.5 8.73
11.51
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
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Algeria Indonesia Iran Kuwait Libya Nigeria Qatar S. Arabia UAE Venezuela
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Exchange rate data PACIFIC Exchange Rate Service http://pacific.commerce.ubc.ca/xr/
Historical daily exchange rates may be retrieved or plotted through an on-line database.
Also provided is a list of all the currencies of the world with information on each country's exchange rate regime and ISO-4217 currency code. Note that the default based currency is Canadian dollar.
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Mark Six Lottery Results Archive
http://www.hongkongjockeyclub.com/english/marksix/index.htm
Results
Drawn Result Archive
Numbers drawn on specific lottery days
Click on the links, you will find past announcement of results. The results include
Unit dividends of various prizes of current lottery.
Number of units for each prize
Total investment
Next lottery day
Jackpot for next lottery.
You can find the history of Mark Six Lottery and how the unit dividends are determined.
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Mutual funds
Get a list of fund houses:
Most search engines (such as YAHOO) includes the following categories:
Finance
mutual funds http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Finance_and_Investment/Mutual_Funds/
http://finance.lycos.com/home/funds/overview.asp
Or we can simply search for “mutual funds and quotes” or “list of mutual funds” under GOOGLE.
Search for, say, “invesco and prices and performance” will get us to
http://www.invescofunds.com/Cached/PricesPer/InvShare/DailyPricesInv.asp
Most fund house will provide the current and historical prices of their funds, sometimes in downloadable format.
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World Trade Organization
http://www.wto.org/ http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm
International Trade Statistics Historical series
In excel format
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The Heritage Foundation
The Freedom Index
http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/
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B
ank for
I
nternational
S
ettlements
http://www.bis.org
Cross country statistics about banking, exchange rate, etc.
International banking statistics
Consolidated banking statistics
Securities statistics
Derivatives statistics
Triennial foreign exchange and derivatives survey 2001
Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-World Bank Statistics on External Debt
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ank
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J
apan
http://www.boj.or.jp/en/ Contains data that are extracted from the Financial and Economic Statistics Monthly
Money, Banking and Securities
In pdf format http://www2.boj.or.jp/en/dlong/dlong.htm
Real Economy Prices, Public Finance, Balance of Payments, Customs Clearance, Economic Forecasts and International Statistics Long term time series data
Text format
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Mutual funds
The Investment Company Institute (ICI) http://www.ici.org/site_map.html
is the national association of the American investment company industry. Founded in 1940, its membership includes 8,938 mutual funds, 535 closed-end funds, and six sponsors of unit investment trusts. Most local newspapers (such as SCMP and HK Economic Times) publish price quotes of mutual funds.
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Concatenating two CPI series of different base year
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Data Corner
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