Smart Data for Multinational enterprises (MNEs) – using open source data to obtain information on Multinational enterprises — 2021 edition - Products Statistical working papers

Trusted Smart Statistics endeavour aims to develop statistics in datafied societies, leveraging information from the web (Web Intelligence), using innovative data collection methods and “smart systems”. Within the framework of Trusted Smart Statistics and Web Intelligence, this paper presents the results of a proof-of-concept of retrieving information about MNEs and enterprise groups from open source data from the web. It brings together the results of research undertaken within the framework of “Smart Data for MNEs” including scoping and assessment of relevant data sources for developing the necessary components of web scraped data, processing the information for further analysis, transforming and visualising this information, exploiting relevant aspects in order to enhance and extend the availability of information on MNEs. The results of this study provide input for the developments within the Trusted Smart Statistics framework, leveraging information from the web.