EIU Market Indicators and Forecasts

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EIU Market Indicators and Forecasts

DATA PROVIDER

The Economist Intelligence Unit

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EIU Market Indicators and Forecasts is the decision-support tool businesses have long been waiting for. The new database provides more than 500 market indicators, including five-year forecasts and historical data, along with statistics on industries, demographics, consumption, average wages, income levels, consumer markets, infrastructure, sovereign risk, business risk and business environment. The forecasts cover eight industries: automotive; consumer goods and retailing; energy and electricity; financial services; food, beverages and tobacco; healthcare and pharmaceuticals; telecoms and technology; and transport, travel and tourism.

The EIU Market Indicators and Forecasts data set is refreshed once a week, but the frequency with which individual series are updated varies. The macroeconomic indicators drawn from EIU CountryData are updated once a month. The EIU business environment rankings and the Pyramid Research telecoms forecasts are updated once a quarter. Other indicators, such as Euromonitor's market sizing indicators and forecasts, are updated on an annual basis.

EIU Market Indicators and Forecasts contains more than 500 variables for each country, divided into the following major categories and including the following series:

Macroeconomic indicators. Real GDP growth, nominal GDP, GDP per head and growth of world GDP, origins of GDP, gross investment, inflation rate, budget balance, international trade data, inward and outward FDI flows and stocks, private consumption, consumer spending patterns, investment, international trade, and EIU business environment ratings on market opportunities and macroeconomic stability.

Demographics and income. Population level and population growth, share of world population, breakdown of population by gender and age group, birth and death rates, dependency ratios, urbanisation, number of households, housing and office space, personal income, average wages and income distribution.

Automotive. Car, motorcycle and commercial vehicle registrations and production, bus registrations and production, passenger cars stock and petrol consumption.

Consumer goods. Private consumption levels, retail sales, sales value for clothing, footwear, cosmetics and toiletries, perfumes, fragrances and skincare products, sales value of furniture and household cleaning products, consumer expenditure on household goods and services, stock and sales volume for televisions, personal computers, refrigerators, video recorders and washing machines, and EIU retail and wholesale network rating.

Energy. Total consumption, production and imports, motor and aviation fuel delivery, LNG imports and exports, LPG delivery, refinery capacity, nuclear electricity power generation, installed electricity capacity, and electricity transmission and distribution losses.

Food, beverages and tobacco. Consumer expenditure, calorie and protein intake, meat, fruit, vegetable and fish consumption, sales volume of confectionery, milk, coffee and tea consumption, sales volume of cigarettes and sales volume of alcoholic and soft drinks.

Financial services. Number of banks, insurance companies in market, mutual funds, employees per institution, full-service bank branches, ATMs, concentration of top ten banks by assets, current-account deposits, time and savings deposits, total AUM of institutional investors, pension funds’ financial assets, open-end investment companies’ financial assets, insurance companies’ financial assets, other institutional investors’ financial assets, local stockmarket capitalisation, total lending by banking institutions, lending to the private sector, lending to businesses, lending to government, lending to individuals, basic indicators such as population, households, labour force, GDP, private consumption expenditure, national savings, disposable income, M1 money supply, quasi money supply, households income stratification, wholesale market stratification, key penetration indicators, including total lending per capita, total lending per income earner, total lending per household, balance-sheet items including bank assets, banks’ capital and reserves, bank loans, bank deposits, net interest income, and bank performance indicators including income state items, asset quality items, profitability and productivity indicators.

Healthcare and pharmaceuticals. Total life expectancy, infant mortality rate, doctors, hospital beds, healthcare spending, healthcare spending % of GDP and per head, prescription-only medicine, pharmaceutical sales, medical equipment, number of infectious diseases, cancers, respiratory and circulatory diseases.

Telecoms and IT. EIU ebusiness readiness rankings, telephone main lines, phone sets and faults, mobile subscribers, Internet users, personal computers, telecommunications investment, software products, applications software, systems software, hardware sales, PC peripherals and server sales.

Transport, travel and tourism. Total length of roads and paved roads, % of paved roads, density of paved roads, length of railway network, railroad density, air transport freight, air transport passengers, EIU road, rail and ports ratings, international tourist arrivals, departures, expenditures and receipts, consumer expenditure on hotels and restaurants.

Competitiveness (labour, skills and productivity). EIU labour market rating, average wage growth, overall and manufacturing unit labour costs, labour force, employment and unemployment levels, productivity of labour, productivity of capital, availability of skilled labour, education spending, education enrolment ratios, literacy rate, R&D spending and levels of patent applications and grants.

Politics, institutions and regulations. Corporate, personal and value-added tax rates, industrial relations, restrictiveness of labour laws, wage regulation, incidence of strikes, stockmarket capitalisation, employers’ social security contributions, customs tariffs, terrorism threat, international disputes and tensions, and EIU business environment ratings on foreign trade, tax, financing, the labour market, political stability, corruption and policy towards private enterprise and foreign investment.

Country credit risk. Overall risk rating and scores, currency risk rating and scores, sovereign debt risk rating and scores, and banking sector risk rating and scores, including political risk, economic policy risk, monetary policy risk, fiscal policy risk, exchange-rate policy risk, trade policy risk, regulatory policy risk, economic structure risk, global environment risk, economic growth risk, current-account risk, debt structure risk, financial structure risk, liquidity risk.

Business operations risk. Risks to business profitability including overall score, security risk, political risk, legal & regulatory risk, macroeconomic risk, foreign trade & payments risk, financial risk, tax policy risk, labour market risk, infrastructure risk.