This database system compiles annual social responsibility reports published by U.S. listed companies and large enterprises. These reports represent critical documents where enterprises voluntarily disclose their non-financial performance in sustainable development, employee rights, environmental protection, community contributions, and other areas. They reflect corporate social responsibility practices and long-term development philosophies. The dataset includes comprehensive basic corporate information, report metadata, and original PDF document paths. CnOpenData's U.S. Corporate Social Responsibility Report Database provides users with primary resources for in-depth analysis of corporate ESG performance, facilitating the study of corporate social responsibility trends, sustainability assessment, and supporting academic research, investment decision-making, and industry benchmarking.
Key Features:
- Complete Historical Time Series: Data spanning nearly three decades enables comprehensive observation of ESG disclosure evolution from inception to institutionalization and standardization, providing a long-cycle research foundation for academia.
- Comprehensive Collection of Original PDF Reports: The database preserves originally disclosed PDF documents, suitable for text mining, natural language processing, content comparison, discourse analysis, and other deep research scenarios.
- Rich Metadata: Beyond basic corporate information, it includes multidimensional fields such as report ratings, industry classifications, and company size, enabling cross-dimensional analysis.
- Extensive Sample Coverage: Encompassing enterprises across multiple industry sectors and varying scales, featuring unified data structure and stable fields to facilitate cross-enterprise and cross-year comparative studies.
Application Value:
- Academic Research: Supports empirical studies in ESG disclosure effectiveness, corporate sustainability, and non-financial information disclosure; PDF originals enable discourse analysis, text classification, risk sentiment identification, and other methodologies.
- Investment Decision-Making: Provides ESG assessment basis for responsible investing, aiding investment decisions and risk management.
- Industry Benchmarking: Assists enterprises in conducting industry benchmarking analysis to optimize social responsibility strategies and disclosure practices.
- Policy Research: Offers data support for regulatory agencies in formulating ESG disclosure policies and industry standards.
With its complete historical data, rich metadata configuration, and preservation of original reports, this database provides academia and industry with a high-quality platform for in-depth research on U.S. corporate social responsibility practices. It serves as a fundamental resource for ESG research, corporate decision-making, and policy formulation.
Data Scale
Time Period
1998-2025.10
Field Display
Sample Data
Data Update Frequency
Annual Updates