Business & economy#
Amazon best-sellers or how to scrape it yourself
Business births, deaths and survival rates, ONS
Charities in England & Wales (official register)
Childcare costs in London and across OECD
Coins: what people have in their wallets (survey)
Community interest companies (newly registered)
Companies influencing elections
Company info registers (UK) in OCCRP investigative database
Consumer Price Index: basket of goods and services 2023
Enron emails (500K) — investigate the infamous company
Financial & economic datasets — Bank of England
Fincen files (global financial transactions) — ICIJ
Gender pay gap UK reporting data
German Companies (5 million +)
Global companies (7 million +) — data.world
Homeworking during the pandemic (UK)
Job vacancies over 1 million, 2022 (ONS)
Kickstarter datasets scraped en masse
Land registry UK: who owns what? & price paid data
Livestock in Wales — last ten years
Millenium of macroeconomic data — Bank of England
Minimum wage — UK employers who underpaid
Mobile payments in India since 2018 (quarterly)
Offshore leaks databases — ICIJ
Opencorporates — Largest world database of company info
Overseas entities (UK) via Companies House
Plastic bags (England charges for single-use)
Points of interest dataset (OS) “location-based directory of all public and privately-owned businesses, education and leisure services in Britain”
Property, UK companies owning & overseas companies owning
Property sales (residential) 1995-21 by region, England & Wales
Restaurant spending via Revolut in pandemic (UK)
Violation index - 60,000 enforcement actions brought against companies by government regulators
Working from home, by local authority