Documentation of RISIS datasets: Cheetah (v.2)

This report provides a comprehensive documentation and detailed description of the RISIS Cheetah dataset (version 2) on seven cohorts of medium-sized firms that experienced turnover or employment fast growth rates in the periods 2008-11, 2009-12, 2010-13, 2011-14, 2012-15, 2013-16, and 2014-17. These fast growing medium-sized firms (FGMFs) are located in 30 European countries (EU27, Norway, Switzerland and the UK). Cheetah covers an overall number of 95,407 firms.