This paper describes recent efforts at CES to create a new longitudinal research dataset: the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD). The LBD is a major improvement over existing longitudinal establishment datasets. Unlike the LRD, which covers only manufacturing, the LBD covers nearly all the...

In order to increase the reliability of economicresearch, the Center for Economic Studies at the U.S. Census Bureau has createdthe Longitudinal Business Database (LBD).The purpose of the LBD is toallow researchers to measure more accurately firm entry and exit, total jobflow, and variations in...

In this paper we describe the U.S. Census Bureau's redesign and production implementation of the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) first introduced by Jarmin and Miranda (2002). The LBD is used to create the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS), tabulations describing the entry, exit,...

In this paper we describe the U.S. Census Bureau's redesign and production implementation of the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) first introduced by Jarmin and Miranda (2002). The LBD is used to create the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS), tabulations describing the entry, exit,...

This paper contributes to the literature on the use of anonymized firm level data by reporting results from a replication study. To test for the practical usefulness of anonymized data I selected two of my published papers based on different cross sections of firm data. The data used there were...

This paper contributes to the literature on the use of anonymized firm level data by reporting results from a replication study. To test for the practical usefulness of anonymized data I selected two of my published papers based on different cross sections of firm data. The data used there were...