Trying to download historical employee count with get_data, only returns current data

lgreen Explorer

January 2019 in Eikon Data APIs

I am trying to download historical employee count with the API, using

TR.Employees and get_data. But this only returns the current value. How do we get the history?

Tagged:

• python
• eikon
• historical
• workspace
• eikon-data-api
• refinitiv-dataplatform-eikon
• workspace-data-api

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  Zhenya Kovalyov LSEG

  January 2019 Answer ✓

  @9029ef3d-816c-4b3d-b8a4-7e45f818c246_deprecated_4f808c3b-28a9-4202-93d8-df37ca58bc11, in order to have the result returned as series make sure you specify the SDate and EDate:

   df, e = ek.get_data('AAPL.O', 'TR.Employees.fperiod, TR.Employees', {'SDate':'0','EDate':'-9','Period':'FY0', 'Frq':'FY'})
  

  

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  lgreen Explorer

  January 2019

  https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/discussion/comment/37234#Comment_37234

  is it only annual? or interim as well?

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  Alex Putkov.1 ✭✭✭✭✭

  January 2019

  https://community.developers.refinitiv.com/discussion/comment/37238#Comment_37238

  I believe the number of employees is only available in annual reports through Eikon. But you may want to verify this with Refinitiv Helpdesk, since this is purely a content question not specific to the use of APIs.

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