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<h2> The Forbes 2000 Ranking of the World's Biggest Companies (Year 2004) </h2>

<h3>Description</h3>


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


<h3>Usage</h3>

<pre>data("Forbes2000")</pre>


<h3>Format</h3>


<p>A data frame with 2000 observations on the following 8 variables.
</p>

<dl>
<dt>rank</dt><dd><p>the ranking of the company.</p>
</dd>
<dt>name</dt><dd><p>the name of the company.</p>
</dd>
<dt>country</dt><dd><p>a factor giving the country the company is situated in.</p>
</dd>
<dt>category</dt><dd><p>a factor describing the products the company produces.</p>
</dd>
<dt>sales</dt><dd><p>the amount of sales of the company in billion USD.</p>
</dd>
<dt>profits</dt><dd><p>the profit of the company in billion USD.</p>
</dd>
<dt>assets</dt><dd><p>the assets of the company in billion USD.</p>
</dd>
<dt>marketvalue</dt><dd><p>the market value of the company in billion USD.</p>
</dd>
</dl>



<h3>Source</h3>


<p><a href="http://www.forbes.com">http://www.forbes.com</a>, assessed on November 26th, 2004.
</p>


<h3>Examples</h3>

<pre>
data("Forbes2000", package = "HSAUR")
summary(Forbes2000)
### number of countries
length(levels(Forbes2000$country))
### number of industries
length(levels(Forbes2000$category))
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