Fame covers over 11 million companies in the UK and Ireland: Over 2 million companies in a detailed format (Financial data, contact details, number of employees, names of directors, ownership and subsidiaries, and more); 280,000 companies in a summary format; details of 1.3 million active companies not required to file/yet to file accounts; 6 million inactive companies.
A certified training programme is available – in the database click on the “?” help icon in the top right and then the training program tab.
Offers a wealth of textual detail on international company financials, descriptions, history, property, subsidiaries, officers and directors, long term debt and capital stock, risk ratings (see Country Insight), credit information and recommendations.
Datasets from the last six UK census: 1961 through to 2011, provided through the UK Data Service. Statistics from the UK censuses help paint a picture of the nation and how we live. They provide a detailed snapshot of the population and its characteristics and underpin funding allocation to provide public services.
The Leeds Beckett Trading Floor provides access to information and tools through Thomson Reuters DataStream. This includes local and global economic and business news, historical and real-time (15 minute delayed data feed) economic and business data, the creation and monitoring of portfolio performance, firm level information, visual analysis through charting, thousands of research works on country and firm performance and the facility to transfer the information into relevant software.
Thousands of economic data series sourced from central banks, national statistics offices, OECD and IMF.
Find out more about the range of data available in the Datastream Economics Factsheet
Online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers, podcasts and statistics, and is the knowledge base of OECD's analysis and data. We have selected access to the OECD's free content.
The EIU databases provide economic indicators and forecasts. The data can be downloaded into Excel.
In order to switch between the databases listed below click on the 'Economist Intelligence' or 'EIU' buttons at the top of the screen: 
EIU Global Forecasting Service
Monthly world economic outlooks, data analysis and forecasts for the global economy articles on critical economic issues and the top ten risks confronting the world economy at any given time. This is a FREE service - you will need to register online to view content.
A comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who depend on high-quality social and economic data. It contains single point of access to a wide range of secondary data including large-scale government surveys, international macrodata, business microdata, qualitative studies and census data from 1971 to 2011.
