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Business Failures by Industry in the United States, 1895 to 1940: A Statistical History (ICPSR 34016)
Released/updated on: 2012-07-05
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1895-01-01--1940-01-01
Dun's Review began publishing monthly data on business failures by branch of business during the 1890s. At that time, a business failure was defined as a concern which was involved in a court proceeding or voluntary action which was likely to end in loss to creditors. Liabilities of failed businesses were defined "as all liabilities except long-term publicly-held obligations, chiefly bonds." Dun's published data on failures by branch of business from 1895 through 1935. This dataset reconstructs that series and links it to its successors. The successor series include data on business failures by division of industry, which Dun and Bradstreet's published from 1934 through 1940. This study includes six parts. Part One contains aggregate liabilities in dollars, broken down by branch, month, and year. Part Two contains aggregate numbers of business failures broken down by branch, month, and year. Part Three contains aggregate liability in dollars broken down by division, month, and year. Part Four contains aggregate numbers of business failures broken down by division, month, and year. Part Five contains aggregate liabilities broken down by sector, month, and year. Part Six contains aggregate numbers of business failures broken down by sector, month, and year. Part One and Part Two contain 36 variables and 562 cases. Part Three and Part Four contain 51 variables and 60 cases. Part Five and Part Six contain 6 variables and 562 cases.
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Center for Research on Social Reality [Spain] Survey, July 1991: Economic Attitudes and Behavior (ICPSR 9896)
Released/updated on: 1993-02-12
Geographic coverage: Europe, Global, Spain
This data collection is part of a continuing series of semi-monthly surveys of individuals in Spain. Each survey consists of three sections. The first section collects information on respondents' attitudes regarding personal and national issues. This section includes questions on level of life satisfaction and frequency of relationships, as well as a rating of the importance of national issues. The second section varies according to the monthly topic, with this survey's topics focusing on economic attitudes and behavior. Among the issues investigated are the respondent's opinion about strikes, manager-worker relations, potential solutions to unemployment, state intervention in different economic sectors, and evaluation of different tax policies for different economic groups. Other items include the respondent's economic status five years ago and one year ago compared to the present, household budgeting, Spain's present and possible future economic situation, perspectives on next year's economy given Spain's integration into the European Economic Community, and attitudes toward consumer rights. The third section collects demographic data such as sex, age, religion, income, and place of residence.
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Channels of Interstate Risk Sharing, United States, 1963-2000 (ICPSR 25541)
Released/updated on: 2018-06-18
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1963-01-01--2000-01-01
This study developed a framework for quantifying the amount of risk sharing among states in the United States, and constructed data that allowed researchers to decompose the cross-sectional variance in gross state product into levels of smoothing capital markets, federal government, and credit market smoothing.
The collection contains 67 Excel data files, that were grouped into 17 datasets based on the organizational ordering schematic provided by the principal investigator, including:
- Dataset 1 - State Personal Income: n=1,938, 51 variables
- Dataset 2 - Federal Taxes and Contributions: n=17,948, 424 variables
- Dataset 3 - State Population: n=1,887, 51 variables
- Dataset 4 - State and Local Personal Taxes: n=11,526, 306 variables
- Dataset 5 - Interests on State and Local Funds: n=7,609, 205 variables
- Dataset 6 - Transfers: n=5,814, 153 variables
- Dataset 7 - Non Federal State Income: n=1,887, 51 variables
- Dataset 8 - Federal Grants: n=1,938, 51 variables
- Dataset 9 - Federal Transfers to Individuals: n=27,415, 766 variables
- Dataset 10 - Federal Personal Taxes: n=1,938, 51 variables
- Dataset 11 - State Government Expenditure: n=1,887, 51 variables
- Dataset 12 - Disposable State Income: n=1,836, 51 variables
- Dataset 13 - State Consumption: n=5,508, 153 variables
- Dataset 14 - State and Local Transfers: n=1,836, 51 variables
- Dataset 15 - Gross State Product: n=1,910, 52 variables
- Dataset 16 - Retail Sales: n=3,774, 102 variables
- Dataset 17 - Personal Consumption Expenditures: n=38, 2 variables
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How Costly Is Sustained Low Inflation for the U.S. Economy? (ICPSR 1302)
Released/updated on: 2004-08-12
Geographic coverage: United States
The authors study the welfare cost of inflation in a general equilibrium life-cycle model that includes households that live for many periods, production and capital, simple monetary and financial sectors, and a fairly elaborate government sector. The government's taxation of capital income is not indexed for inflation. They find that a plausibly calibrated version of this model has a steady state that matches a variety of facts about the postwar U.S. economy. They use the model to estimate the welfare cost of permanent, policy-induced changes in the inflation rate and find that most of the costs of inflation are direct and indirect consequences of the fact that inflation increases the effective tax rate on capital income. The cost estimates are an order of magnitude larger that other estimates in the literature.
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Simple Crosstabs
The Welfare Impact Of Collusion Under Various Industry Characteristics: A Panel Examination Of Efficient Cartel Theory (ICPSR 34351)
Released/updated on: 2013-01-30
Geographic coverage: United States
Time period: 1927-01-01--1937-12-01
This collection focuses on the welfare impact of collusion under various industry characteristics. The data were assembled using publically available administrative records data, census/enumeration data and observational data from the industry level. Industries represented in this collection include asphalt, auto parts, brick, iron, paper-pulp, and rubber industries, as well as those dealing in other types of products and raw materials.
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World Cities Culture Report, 2022 (ICPSR 39411)
Released/updated on: 2025-05-16
The World Cities Culture Forum, established in 2012, is a leading global network of civic leaders from over 40 creative cities across six continents, representing a combined population of over 245 million. The forum fosters collaborations to place culture at the core of urban development, addressing 21st-century challenges such as climate change, affordable workspaces, cultural tourism, and diversity in public spaces. Through its Global Summit, partnerships, and programs like the Leadership Exchange Programme and Digital Dialogue Masterclasses, the forum promotes cultural integration in city planning. The World Cities Culture Report 2022 provides comprehensive open-source data on culture, including over 60 datasets from 40 cities.
- Contextual Data: Includes demographics such as characteristics of the overall and working-age populations (including percent who were foreign born) and of the geographical area, such as the percentage of national population living in the city and the percentage of the area devoted to parks and other public green spaces.
- Cultural Infrastructure: Provides counts (and rates) of various facilities and venues, including art galleries, artists' studios, rehearsal spaces, bars, bookshops, cinemas, community centers, concert halls, museums, nightclubs, libraries, video game arcades, and theatres.
- Participation and Tourism: Focuses on cultural participation metrics, such as cinema and theatre admissions, festival attendance, museum visits, average daily attendance at the top five art exhibits, and international tourist numbers.
- Creative Economy: Encompasses data on book publishing, creative industries employment, film festivals, restaurant ratings, and performances.
- Education: Includes statistics on public library book loans, higher education levels, international student enrollment, and specialist institutes in art and design education.
The source for each number is identified within the dataset. Data users can freely download selected datasets as .csv files.