The early county business pattern files: 1946-1974

Fabian Eckert; Ka-leung Lam; Atif R. Mian; Karsten Müller; Rafael Schwalb; Amir Sufi

doi:10.3386/w30578

The early county business pattern files: 1946-1974

Fabian Eckert
, Ka-leung Lam
, Atif R. Mian
, Karsten Müller
, Rafael Schwalb
, Amir Sufi

Research output: Working paper › Working Paper › Other

Abstract

The County Business Pattern (“CBP”) files contain employment and establishment counts for detailed industry codes covering all counties in the United States. The contribution of this project is to digitize, clean, and prepare the CBP files from 1946-1974. We also apply the methods developed in Eckert, Fort, Schott, and Yang (2020a) to impute missing employment observations in the raw data. We provide three digital data products for public use: (1) the cleaned CBP files for each year, (2) a consolidated panel data set of employment and establishment counts for about 20 industries and all US counties, (3) estimates for suppressed employment counts for each year.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Cambridge MA USA
Publisher	National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Pages	1-26
Number of pages	26
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3386/w30578
Publication status	Published - 2022
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	NBER Working Paper Series
No.	30578

Access to Document

10.3386/w30578

https://www.nber.org/papers/w30578

Cite this

@techreport{0acedca10ad44d2996fcd2ad775d4f6c,

title = "The early county business pattern files: 1946-1974",

abstract = "The County Business Pattern (“CBP”) files contain employment and establishment counts for detailed industry codes covering all counties in the United States. The contribution of this project is to digitize, clean, and prepare the CBP files from 1946-1974. We also apply the methods developed in Eckert, Fort, Schott, and Yang (2020a) to impute missing employment observations in the raw data. We provide three digital data products for public use: (1) the cleaned CBP files for each year, (2) a consolidated panel data set of employment and establishment counts for about 20 industries and all US counties, (3) estimates for suppressed employment counts for each year.",

author = "Fabian Eckert and Ka-leung Lam and Mian, \{Atif R.\} and Karsten M{\"u}ller and Rafael Schwalb and Amir Sufi",

year = "2022",

doi = "10.3386/w30578",

language = "English",

series = "NBER Working Paper Series",

publisher = "National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)",

number = "30578",

pages = "1--26",

type = "WorkingPaper",

institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)",

}

TY - UNPB

T1 - The early county business pattern files

T2 - 1946-1974

AU - Eckert, Fabian

AU - Lam, Ka-leung

AU - Mian, Atif R.

AU - Müller, Karsten

AU - Schwalb, Rafael

AU - Sufi, Amir

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - The County Business Pattern (“CBP”) files contain employment and establishment counts for detailed industry codes covering all counties in the United States. The contribution of this project is to digitize, clean, and prepare the CBP files from 1946-1974. We also apply the methods developed in Eckert, Fort, Schott, and Yang (2020a) to impute missing employment observations in the raw data. We provide three digital data products for public use: (1) the cleaned CBP files for each year, (2) a consolidated panel data set of employment and establishment counts for about 20 industries and all US counties, (3) estimates for suppressed employment counts for each year.

AB - The County Business Pattern (“CBP”) files contain employment and establishment counts for detailed industry codes covering all counties in the United States. The contribution of this project is to digitize, clean, and prepare the CBP files from 1946-1974. We also apply the methods developed in Eckert, Fort, Schott, and Yang (2020a) to impute missing employment observations in the raw data. We provide three digital data products for public use: (1) the cleaned CBP files for each year, (2) a consolidated panel data set of employment and establishment counts for about 20 industries and all US counties, (3) estimates for suppressed employment counts for each year.

U2 - 10.3386/w30578

DO - 10.3386/w30578

M3 - Working Paper

T3 - NBER Working Paper Series

SP - 1

EP - 26

BT - The early county business pattern files

PB - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

CY - Cambridge MA USA

ER -