Does Compustat-NA quarterly data have number of employees for each company?

[singhalc]

Hello all,

Does Compustat-NA quarterly data have the number of employees for each company? I could not find it. 

Do I then just merge quarterly data with the number-of-employee variable from the annual dataset?

[Guoyu Lin]

yes, you are correct.

[att...@balogh.net]

  Another approach is to take the number of employees at the end of the previous year and the current year to interpolate the quarterly figure.

  You may either take a linear growth view, or use the growth in staff expense as a proxy. You can find those in the Company Interim Quarterly Item dataset (comp.co_ifndq) under Staff Expense - Wages/Salaries (xstq) and Staff Expense - Other (xstoq).

Attila

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Attila Balogh

School of Banking & Finance

UNSW Business School | UNSW Sydney

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