Hello everyone!
Business students often face the problem of finding secondary sources while writing reports and dissertations, which is really annoying. Today I am going to share with you a few essential database websites for business students.
Statista
This website provides a lot of data and charts for industry analyses and market forecasts that you can directly download and use. Although it’s well worth the $1.99 if your student account doesn’t work.
It is suitable for all business students.
World Bank
This website provides macro data from various countries, such as global population data, economic development index data, etc. There is also a Chinese language option, making it very easy to download with one click.
Suitable for all business students.
Mintel
This website provides you with a lot of information on consumer behaviour research and market trends, which is very suitable for business students, especially those studying marketing, so make sure you make good use of it.
To use this database you need to access it through your school library’s databases.
It is suitable for marketing and management students.
OECD
This database provides you with macroeconomic data and analyses of OECD countries and is very useful.
It is suitable for students of all business disciplines.
Financial Times
This website provides data on the global financial markets, such as information on stock indices and bonds.
Suitable for finance and accounting students.
Yahoo Finance
This popular site contains news, data on stock indices (such as the S&P 500 and NASDAQ), and downloadable information such as historical stock prices and company profiles.
Ideal for finance and accounting students.
CSMAR Taian
The Chinese financial database is now categorised by research direction. Students studying in China can try to use the undergraduate account. If you are studying abroad, you can log in WRDS (Wharton) and then access the Taian database.
It is suitable for finance and economics students.
There are a number of other commonly used database sites, including the National Bureau of Statistics (which provides a variety of official data from China), IMF data, Fame (which requires a login via an external link from your school’s website), and WRDS (which requires you to sign up with your school email address and wait for a review).
Ibis World is also a good database to use.
If you guys know of any other good databases, please share them.
