Accessing Data

To obtain access to all data other than ASX Daily Data, SFE Daily Data, Company Announcements, Aspect Financial Data, Member Universities must complete a Data Consult Form. Users must be authorised by the Member Representative at their university before obtaining access to this form.

Data Consult Form (members only)

Consult Forms are reviewed by the Consult Manager at SIRCA. On some occasions, approval must be sought from the data vendor to allow access to the data. This is managed by the Consult Manager.

ASX and SFE data consults will typically require approval if the researcher requests order level data or broker identifiers. Requests requiring approval are reviewed periodically.

Data Approval Dates

Data approval dates are subject to change, so Members should check this information before submitting a request. Requests will not be approved outside these dates. Researchers are asked to keep these dates in mind when submitting requests to ensure that the time taken to receive data is minimised.

If approval is not required or after approval has been obtained, the SIRCA programmers will estimate the time it will take to complete the task and the Consult Manager will communicate this to the researcher.

SIRCA will deliver the data to the researchers as soon as possible. Researchers should note that the peak period for data consults is from July to November. Researchers should be aware that during this time data consults are likely to take longer to be completed. Please refer to our instructions on Downloading Data to aid this process.

Data will be delivered via our ftp server, unless otherwise specified by the user and approved by SIRCA. A new directory will be created for each user. This data will be encrypted and will need to be decrypted by the user after it has been downloading.

Further details may be obtained about this process from the SIRCA programmers.