Ka-fu Wong © 2003 Chap 13- 1 Dr. Ka-fu Wong ECON1003 Analysis of Economic Data.

Ka-fu Wong © 2003 Chap 13- 1

Dr. Ka-fu Wong

ECON1003Analysis of Economic Data

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GOALS

1. Illustrate a collection of useful and interesting data web sites.

Data cornerData corner

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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 Money and Finance Other Economic and Business Statistics

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.

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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 indiceson-line

http://www.forecasts.org/data/index.htmStock index data

International Stock Indices-Monthly Nikkei 225  Japan DAX  Germany Hang Seng  Hong Kong FTSE 100  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 PCFormat

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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Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

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)

Country Quota (b/d) Percentage

Algeria 782,000 3.19

Indonesia 1,270,000 5.18

Iran 3,597,000 14.68

Kuwait 1,966,000 8.02

Libya 1,312,000 5.36

Nigeria 2,018,000 8.24

Qatar 635,000 2.59

S. Arabia 7,963,000 32.5

UAE 2,138,000 8.73

Venezuela 2,819,000 11.51

Total 24,500,000 100

OPEC production Quota distribution as of 1 February 2003.http://www.opec.org/

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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

AlgeriaIndonesiaIranKuwaitLibyaNigeriaQatarS. ArabiaUAEVenezuela

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Exchange rate dataPACIFIC 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 includeUnit dividends of various prizes of current

lottery.Number of units for each prizeTotal investmentNext lottery dayJackpot 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 fundshttp://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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Bank for International Settlements

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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Bank of Japan

http://www.boj.or.jp/en/ Contains data that are extracted from the Financial

and Economic Statistics Monthly Money, Banking and Securities Real Economy Prices, Public Finance, Balance of Payments,

Customs Clearance, Economic Forecasts and International Statistics

In pdf format http://www2.boj.or.jp/en/dlong/dlong.htm

Long term time series data Text format

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Mutual funds

The Investment Company Institute (ICI) http://www.ici.org/site_map.htmlis 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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