The data consist of the aggregate number of corporations filing for bankruptcy in various industries each month in the United States and the total liabilities of those corporations. Please refer to the codebook for sampling information in the "Original P.I. Documentation" section. Additional information can be found by visiting the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
For additional information on these datasets please see the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Terms of use are available at http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/studies/34016/terms
AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to ICPSR member institutions.