Guides and databases: SSEES Economics and Business: Central Europe

Central Europe Economics and Business Data

Central Statistical Office of Poland
Statistics related to Poland's economy, population, and society, at the national and local levels.
Czech Statistical Office
Statistics related to the Czech Republic's economy, population, and society, at the national and local levels.
Czech Statistical Office: Databases, registers
Databases and registers include: Public Database – a unified and basic data source for presentation of statistical data targeted mainly on the public; Annual National Accounts – macroeconomic data; External Trade Database – data on exports and imports; Business Register – a public list of legal persons and natural persons with the status of an entrepreneur and organisational units of the state that are accounting entities.
ECB Statistical Data Warehouse
Eurobarometer Surveys
A series of public opinion surveys conducted regularly on behalf of the European Commission since 1973 on a wide variety of topical issues relating to the European Union throughout the EU Member States, such as attitudes towards European integration, institutions, policies, social conditions, health, culture, the economy, citizenship, etc.
EUROMOD Country Reports
Country Reports document the way in which each country’s tax-benefit system is modelled, containing sections on the national tax-benefit system, the modelled tax-benefit instruments, with reference to EUROMOD parameter sheets; the micro-database and adjustments to the original data; a validation of baseline output in relation to other statistics.
EUROMOD Statistics
Statistical data for 27 EU countries and the UK on the Distribution and Decomposition of Disposable Income providing estimates of income components (taxes and benefits) by household income decile group as well as inequality and poverty indicators before and after taxes and benefits and marginal effective tax rates.
European Central Bank Statistics
Data on euro area monetary policy, financial stability and the activities of the European System of Central Banks (ESCB) includingn key euro area indicators, exchange rates, monetary and financial statistics, monetary operations, balance of payments and other external statistics, financial integration indicators, macroeconomic and sectoral statistics.
European Commission AMECO Macroeconomic Data
Annual macroeconomic database of the European Commission's Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs.
European Data Portal
A gateway offering access to data published by administrations in countries across Europe, from the EU and beyond. Portal provides access to over 415,000 data sets harvested from 70 catalogues in the EU27+. Data is collected from national, regional and local portals without excluding certain datasets.
European Election Database
The European Election and Referendum Database provides election results on a regional level for European countries. The archive cover the period from 1990 until present and publishes results from parliamentary elections, European Parliament elections, presidential elections, as well as EU-related referendums for a total of 35 European countries.
European Environment Agency Data
The database provide environmental data searchable by a topic e.g. air pollution, climate change, noise.
European Social Survey
The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically driven cross-national survey that has been conducted across Europe since 2001. The survey measures the attitudes, beliefs and behaviour patterns of diverse populations in more than thirty nations. It is covering public trust; political interest and participation; political orientation; governance; political and social values; national, ethnic and religious allegiances; well-being, health and security; demographics and socio-economic variables.
European Union Labour Force Survey (Eurostat)
The EU LFS is a large household sample survey conducted by the national statistical institutes across Europe and centrally processed by Eurostat. Survey provides quarterly results on labour participation of people aged 15 and over, living in private households. The data collection covers 27 Member States of the European Union and the UK, 2 candidate countries and 3 countries of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) from 1983 onwards. In general, data for individual countries are available depending on their accession date.
European Union Open Data Portal
The European Union Open Data Portal is the single point of access to a growing range of data from the institutions and other bodies of the European Union (EU). Data are free to use and reuse for commercial or non-commercial purposes.
European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (Eurostat)
EUI-SILC provides comparable cross-sectional and longitudinal multidimensional microdata on income, poverty, social exclusion and living conditions, coordinated by Eurostat, based on data from the European Union member states and other European countries.
European Values Study
A large-scale, cross-national, and longitudinal survey research program on how Europeans think about family, work, religion, politics and society. Repeated every nine years in an increasing number of countries, the survey provides insights into the ideas, beliefs, preferences, attitudes, values, and opinions of citizens all over Europe.
Eurostat Data
Official source for statistical data on the European Union and member states.
Eurostat Statistics Explained
An official Eurostat website presenting statistical topics in an easily understandable way. Together, the articles make up an encyclopedia of European statistics for everyone, completed by a statistical glossary clarifying all terms used and by numerous links to further information and the latest data and metadata, a portal for occasional and regular users.
Eurostat Statistics Explained
An official Eurostat website presenting statistical topics in an easily understandable way. Together, the articles make up an encyclopedia of European statistics for everyone, completed by a statistical glossary clarifying all terms used and by numerous links to further information and the latest data and metadata, a portal for occasional and regular users.
Hungarian Central Statistical Office
Data for the parliament and public administration, social organizations, local authorities, scientific bodies, economic organizations, the general public and the media as well as for international organizations and users abroad. Official data regarding the socio-economic situation as well as the changes in the population of the country are published by the HCSO.
Hungarian Central Statistical Office (STADAT)
Major data, indicators collected by HCSO or transmitted by other organizations are included in the table system of ready-made tables: territorial data by county and region and major international data by the member states of the European Union as well as by some other countries to ensure the option of intra-country and cross country comparison. STADAT-tables are free to download in an Excel format. There is a methodological guide to facilitate the interpretation of the tables.
Key indicators for the euro area
Set of tables and graphs presenting the most relevant economic statistics concerning the euro area.
International Monetary Fund Data
The IMF publishes a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators. Manuals, guides, and other material on statistical practices at the IMF, in member countries, and of the statistical community at large are also available.
Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic/Debt Statistics
Fiscal Data for the Czech Republic, Government Finance Statistics, Macroeconomic Forecast, Financial Markets Analyses.

OECD iLibrary
The database is available for use by UCL staff and students both on- and off-site within the terms of the license agreements. Off-site users will need to login using their UCL username and passwords. It contains data and documentation from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. 400 statistical series, 6,000 E-books and 3,000 working papers from 1960s to present. Platform includes data from the International Energy Agency (IEA); Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA); PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) and the International Transport Forum (ITF).

Online Archive of EU Official Publications
EU Publications Office archive of official EEC / EC / EU publications from 1950 onwards, including annual statistical compendia.
Principal European Economic Indicators
Short-term economic and business cycle indicators for the EU and member states, issued monthly by the European Commission in the PEEI framework, with supplemental European business cycle data.
Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic
Statistics related to Slovakia's economy, population, and society, at the national and local levels.
SHARE/Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
Cross-national panel database on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks of more than 45,000 Europeans aged 50 and over.
TARKI Data Archive
TÁRKI Data Archive stores data collections of empirical social research. The data collections contains factographic (ie. numerical) data. The research data are mostly from survey research, but we also archives other factographic data collections (eg. historical data, census, etc).
Transparency International/Corruption Perceptions Index
First launched in 1995, the Corruption Perceptions Index has been widely credited with putting the issue of corruption on the international policy agenda.
Transparency International/Global Corruption Barometer
Since its debut in 2003, the Global Corruption Barometer has surveyed the experiences of everyday people confronting corruption around the world.
UN Economic Commission for Europe Statistics
European Countries in Figures' published by the UN Economic Commission for Europe, providing annual statistical profiles of 56 European countries.
World Bank/Central Europe and the Baltics Data
Statistics on development in countries around the globe, collated by the World Bank. Consists of a number of datasets including development indicators, debt statistics and trade logistics statistics.
World Bank/Enterprise Surveys
Enterprise Surveys provide the world's most comprehensive company-level data in emerging markets and developing economies. Business data are available on 130,000 firms in 135 countries.
World Bank Group/Doing Business Data
Doing Business offers economic data from 2003 to the present. The data is presented in a variety of ways useful to researchers, policy makers, journalists and others.
Worldwide Governance Indicators (World Bank Data)
Aggregate and individual governance indicators for 215 countries and territories over the period 1996–2014, for six dimensions of governance.