Princeton University Library
Pliny Fisk Library of Economics & Finance
Go to http://myinsight.globalinsight.com/servlet/cats?imask=1&pageContent=home
For data, click on Data Insight Web.
To search you have several options:
Do a keyword search
or
Choose Global Economy (non-United States or international comparative)
or
Financial Markets
or
U.S. Economy (national level)
or
U.S. Regional (sub-national level)
Do not specify frequency unless you must have very high frequency data. Note most economic data is quarterly if not annual.
Create a Workbook.
Highlight the items you want. Use Shift-Enter for items that fall in a row. Use CTRL-Enter for non consecutive items.
Drag the highlighted series to the workbook. Note that you are restricted to the limits imposed by Excel (260 columns).
For market research on the automotive industry, energy, health care and pharmaceuticals, and telecommunications the entry is on the front page when you enter Global Insight.
Global Insight is also available as a client-based desktop application which must be installed. While the downloading capabilities of the client-based application are more flexible, not all databases in the WEB version are contained in the client version.
Last updated October 9, 2007