【经济数据篇】试问宏观经济数据哪家强？作为分析师，你应该知道的那些事儿
做经济形势研究分析、投资决策等，都离不开大量的经济数据作支持，但是查找数据往往是一个相当繁琐的工作，并且数据准确性和及时性都是首要考虑的元素。基于这些需求，便诞生了今天要推荐的内容——作为分析师，你应该知道的那些事儿。
一般情况下，我们通过以下的几个渠道寻找经济数据：搜索引擎、官方机构、政府网站、文库等等。但是经常发现一些问题，比如说，搜索引擎搜到的文章与文库中引用的数据，没有明确表明数据的来源、时间、口径等，这都会对专业的分析造成不同程度的影响。同时一些未被披露的数据或者修正数据都是我们无从查找的，那么这个时候，是不是需要考虑一些别的渠道，比如通过更为专业的经济数据库来查找呢？
这里将会通过连载的形式推荐一些好用的宏观经济、行业经济数据库，有了这些资源，不仅仅可以使数据收集的效率大大提高，同时也能学习到更多的业内知识。
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今天要说的是CEIC经济数据库， 它以提供以高质量、及时、准确的宏观经济数据闻名于业界。
CEIC在1992年成立于香港，由经济学家和分析师组成。目前数据库覆盖超过195个国家的400多万条时间序列的宏观经济数据。在数据库中，包含了很多未公开披露的以及比较难找到的数据，这些都可以帮助我们做出更深入与全面的分析。特别是CEIC还提供关于金砖国家的深度数据库，比如说中国经济数据库，对于研究中国宏观经济以及相关行业的朋友们来说，说是非常有帮助的。
之后我们也会为大家陆续介绍CEIC经济数据库的具体组成，以及其他经济数据库的一些信息，敬请关注！
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[Chapter of Economic Data] As an analyst, something you should know
When doing the economy and policy analysis, investment decision making, economic data is requested as a supporting. But data searching tends to be rather tedious work and needs lots of time to do this. In the meantime, the data accuracy and timeliness are also the important thing to be considered. Based on all these requests and issues, we write this article today, as an analyst, something you should know, for your reference.
Usually, we are looking for economic data through the following channels: Search Engine, Official Institutions, Government Websites, e-Libraries and so on. But we often face another problems, for example, an article/analysis report from search engine is without reference resource and does not clearly indicate the statistics period etc., all of that will have negative or bad impact on professional analysis. While some undisclosed data or correction of data are hard be found. Under such circumstances, do you consider to use a professional economic database to find such data?
Today, I would like to recommend a professional macroeconomic database, industry database. With these resources, will not only enhance the efficiency on the data collection, but also could learn more knowledge about the industry.
Today I want to introduce CEIC Economic Database to you. CEIC Database is known for providing high quality, timely and accurate macroeconomic data among the world.
CEIC was founded in 1992 in Hong Kong by a team of economists and analysts. Currently the database archives over 4 million time series economic data and cover more than 195 countries globally. CEIC database contains lots of economic data which is not publicly disclosed, as well as hard-to-find, all of these can help you to make a more in-depth and comprehensive analysis. CEIC also provides several premium database focusing on the BRIIC countries, for example, China Premium Database, it enables the researcher and analyst to do China macroeconomics and industry research.