Corporate Annual and Sustainability Reports for STOXX Europe 600, 2014–2023

Over 600 European companies' annual and sustainability reports from the STOXX Europe 600 index, covering a 10-year period. Kerstin Forster created this corpus for a study assessing corporate sustainability with large language models. Reports were sourced from company websites and reporting intermediaries to extract ESG indicators.

Use Cases

• Train or fine-tune large language models for ESG disclosure analysis based on the corpus of corporate reports.
• Benchmark automated ESG indicator extraction methods against the manually curated pipeline described in the source study.
• Analyze trends in corporate sustainability reporting over time based on the 2014–2023 coverage.
• Conduct comparative studies of reporting practices across different sectors within the STOXX Europe 600 index.

Strengths

• Reports cover a defined index of over 600 major European companies.
• Data spans a 10-year period from 2014 to 2023, allowing for longitudinal analysis.
• Corpus was specifically created and used for a peer-reviewed academic study on ESG assessment.

Limitations

• Dataset completeness is contingent on public availability; some reports for the index may be missing.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific modeling tasks.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, authored by Kerstin Forster.

Collection Method

Reports were collected from company websites and reporting intermediaries.

Time Range

2014–2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-20 17:38:45; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Europe (companies listed on the STOXX Europe 600 index)