1996 COMPUSTAT Data Available
By George Morrow, Academic Computing Services Programmer/Analyst (morrow@unt.edu)
Standard and Poor's COMPUSTAT data files
contain financial, statistical, and market information on over
7,000 publicly held companies. The University of North Texas presently
subscribes to the following COMPUSTAT files:
| Description | Data Set Name | Accessed By |
|---|---|---|
| Bank - annual | COMP.BANK.ANNUAL | FORTRAN |
| Bank - quarterly | COMP.BANK.QUARTER | FORTRAN |
| Canadian - Annual | COMP.CANADA.INDUS | SAS DataSource |
| Industrial - Annual | USER.A000.COMSTAT2.INDUS96 | SAS Program |
| Industrial - 48 Quarter | COMP.PSTIND.48QTR | SAS DataSource |
| Industrial - research | COMP.PSTIND.RSRCH | SAS DataSource |
| Over-the-Counter-annual | USER.A000.COMSTAT2.OTC96 | SAS Program |
| Over-the-Counter-research | COMP.OTC.RESEARCH | SAS DataSource |
| Price, Dividends, Earnings | COMP.PDE.TOTAL | FORTRAN |
| S&P ACE (Consensus Est.) | COMP.SP.ACE.WKLY | FORTRAN |
The COMPUSTAT Data consists of a computer readable library of
financial, statistical, and market information covering several
thousand industrial and nonindustrial companies. There are more
than 300 variables available on the industrial files. A full range
of fundamental data is provided including key income statements,
balance sheets, changes in financial position, and market items.
The data tapes (magnetic) listed are accessible through FORTRAN
or SAS programs submitted from CMS to the MVS batch system. To do
this you must have active CMS and MVS User-IDs. To obtain those
User-IDs, contact the
Computing Center
in ISB 119 (940-565-2324).
Proc Datasource is documented in the SAS/ETS User's Guide. Proc
Datasource may be used to access the industrial, OTC, Canadian, and
research files. The cut-off date for these files is July, 1996,
therefore data are available for the years 1976 through 1995.
Questions about COMPUSTAT, SAS, JCL and/or accesing these data tapes
should be directed to
Academic Computing Services
in ISB 119 (940-565-2324).
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