EDGAR server logs record requests for filings through the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system.

Charlotte Zhou, a CUHK–Shenzhen alumna, and I processed EDGAR log files covering 2020–2024.

Coverage: 2020–2024.
Observation unit: Daily download counts by filing accession ID and company CIK.
Variables: Download date, accession ID, CIK, download count, and filing information from the SEC index, including form type, filing date, and company name.
Processing: We aggregate log requests by date, accession ID, and CIK, then merge filing characteristics from the SEC index.

Request access to the processed 2020–2024 data.

Additional resources: SEC EDGAR Log File Data Sets and processed 2003–2017 data from the University of Notre Dame.

Descriptive statistics prepared by Charlotte appear below.