Forbes2000 {HSAUR2}

The Forbes 2000 Ranking of the World's Biggest Companies (Year 2004)

Description

The Forbes 2000 list is a ranking of the world's biggest companies, measured by sales, profits, assets and market value.

Usage

data("Forbes2000")

Format

A data frame with 2000 observations on the following 8 variables.

rank

the ranking of the company.

name

the name of the company.

country

a factor giving the country the company is situated in.

category

a factor describing the products the company produces.

sales

the amount of sales of the company in billion USD.

profits

the profit of the company in billion USD.

assets

the assets of the company in billion USD.

marketvalue

the market value of the company in billion USD.

Source

https://www.forbes.com, assessed on November 26th, 2004.

Examples

data("Forbes2000", package = "HSAUR2")
summary(Forbes2000)
### number of countries
length(levels(Forbes2000$country))
### number of industries
length(levels(Forbes2000$category))