County Business Patterns Database

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Fabian Eckert, Princeton University; Teresa C. Fort, Dartmouth College; Peter K. Schott, Yale School of Management; Natalie J. Yang, Chicago Booth School of Business

Version:  View help for Version V1

Version Title:  View help for Version Title Initial Release

Name File Type Size Last Modified
  Imputed-CBP-Files 01/31/2020 03:42:PM
  Industry-Concordances 01/31/2020 03:37:PM
  Raw-CBP-Files 01/31/2020 03:46:PM

Project Citation: 

Eckert, Fabian, Fort, Teresa C., Schott, Peter K., and Yang, Natalie J. County Business Patterns Database. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-01-31. https://doi.org/10.3886/E117464V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title County Business Patterns Database
Summary:  View help for Summary The County Business Patterns data published by the US Census Bureau track employment by county and industry from 1946 to the present. Two features of the data limit their usefulness to researchers in practice: employment for the majority of county-industry cells is suppressed to protect confidentiality; and industry classifications change over time. We address both issues. First, we develop a linear programming method that exploits the large set of adding-up constraints implicit in the hierarchical arrangement of the data to impute missing employment. Second, we provide concordances to map all data to a consistent set of industry codes.

In this repository, we provide the original CBP data and the imputed data files for all years from 1977 to 2016. We also provide industry concordances for the various SIC and NAICS vintages.

Github Repo with imputation codes: https://github.com/fpeckert/cbp_database_public

Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL www.fpeckert.me/cbp

Scope of Project

Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States Counties
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1/1/1977 – 1/1/2016 (1977 to 2016)
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes The data were published by the County Business Pattern program at the U.S. Census Bureau.


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