Worldscope Database Datatype Definitions Guide

Employees - 1 Yr Annual Growth
Growth Rate, Annual Item; Field 08626
All Industries:
(Current Year's Total Employees / Last Year's Total Employees - 1) * 100
Employees - 5 Yr Annual Growth
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Alphabetical List of Field Definitions - E
Growth Rate, Annual Item; Field 08630
All Industries:
((Current Year's Employees / Employees six years ago, reduced to a compound annual rate) - 1) * 100
Enterprise Value
Stock Data, Annual & Interim Item; Field 18100
All Industries:
Market Capitalization at fiscal year end date + Preferred Stock + Minority Interest + Total Debt minus
Cash.
Cash represents Cash & Due from Banks for Banks, Cash for Insurance Companies and Cash & Short
Term Investments for all other industries.
This item is available in the annual time series and the quarterly, semi-annual and trimester interim time series.
It is only available at the company level.
For companies with more than one type of ordinary shares, Market Capitalisation represents the total market
value of the company calculated as total number of listed and unlisted common equivalent shares multiplied by
the price of the primary issue at fiscal year end date.
Entity Type
Descriptive Data, Current Item; Field 06100
All Industries:
ENTITY TYPE represents a code used to indicate that the Worldscope Identifier represents either an
average, company, exchange rate, ADR, security or a stock index.
Code Description
A ADR/Foreign Filer
C Company
E Exchange Rate
F Country Average
G Industry Average
I Index
S Security
EPS
See EARNINGS PER SHARE
Equipment Expense
Supplementary (Expense) Data, Annual Item; Field 01085
Banks, Other Financial Companies:
EQUIPMENT EXPENSE represents rental and maintenance expenses, furniture repairs, interest on
mortgages on bank premises, real estate taxes and all other equipment or occupancy expenses.
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