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Asset Market Experiments, 1986-1990 (ICPSR 1037)

Released/updated on: 1996-01-03

These data and/or computer programs are part of ICPSR's Publication-Related Archive and are distributed exactly as they arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the INVESTIGATOR(S) if further information is desired.

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Capital Control Policy Changes, 1951-1998 (ICPSR 3932)

Released/updated on: 2004-04-28

Geographic coverage: Japan, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Iceland, Global, New Zealand, Canada, Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Norway, Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Israel, Australia, France, Germany

Time period: 1951-01-01--1998-01-01

This collection measures capital control policy changes using the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) yearly summary of each member state's financial regulations. In the country reports each year, the IMF describes and dates all significant changes in each state's regulations on trade, payments, and capital movement policies. The IMF's written descriptions for each reported change in each country were converted into a set of numeric variables. The survey covered 19 parliamentary democracies that have been continuously democratic since 1951, the first year for which the IMF reported regulatory changes. Since this collection focuses on investment capital, it does not include regulatory changes relating to tourist allocations or payments for services. The date of each regulatory change is included as well as dummy variables which measure whether the change, based on IMF descriptions, was restricting or liberalizing.

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CBS News Poll, January 2014 (ICPSR 36194)

Released/updated on: 2015-07-30

Geographic coverage: United States

This poll, fielded January 2014, is a part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicits public opinion on a range of political and social issues. Respondents were asked how well Barack Obama was handling the presidency, foreign policy, health care, and national security. Opinions were also collected on how Congress was handling its job, the condition of the national economy, the wage gap, unemployment, the federal minimum wage, and the 2010 health care law. Additional topics include the use of marijuana, the distribution of wealth, voter registration status, and the National Security Agency. Demographic information includes sex, age, ethnicity/race, marital status, household income, employment status, and political party affiliation.

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Central and Eastern Euro-barometer 2: Current Affairs and the Media, September-October 1991 (ICPSR 6105)

Released/updated on: 2005-04-29

Geographic coverage: Czech Republic, Latvia, Romania, Hungary, Europe, Poland, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Global, Russia, Estonia, Albania

The second round of Central and Eastern Euro-Barometer Surveys was carried out in Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and European Russia. It assessed Central and Eastern Europeans' awareness of and attitudes toward the European Community (EC) and its programs and activities. In addition, the survey asked respondents to give opinions on a number of issues of importance to all European nations. It also explored citizens' reactions to the political and economic reforms occurring in their own countries. Respondents were asked whether things in general were going in the right or wrong direction in their country, and whether economic reforms and privatization were occurring too fast or too slowly. Other questions probed for how well individuals felt their country's economy and their own finances had fared over the past year, and how well they would fare over the coming year. Opinions were sought on whether the establishment of a free market economy was right or wrong. The survey asked respondents how satisfied they were with the development of democracy in their country, and whether they intended to vote in the next general election. It also elicited opinions on the degree of respect for human rights in the respondent's country. Other questions asked how frequently respondents thought of themselves as European, and whether they had considered going to work in a country in Western Europe. A series of items focused on general usage of television, radio, and newspapers, and on trust in various forms of information media, including broadcasts from the West. Several country-specific questions were asked about sources of information on the European Community. Respondents were also asked to indicate how aware they were of, and how interested in, the European Community and its activities and institutions, and to rate how positively they regarded the EC and the prospect of their country's membership in it. Participants were also asked about how the economy, government, and private citizens might be advantaged or disadvantaged by the country's increasing ties with the EC. Opinions were sought on the fairness of the Community's and other countries' trade and assistance policies, especially the PHARE assistance program for Central and Eastern Europe, and EC aid requested by the former Soviet Union. Respondents were asked to rate the usefulness of EC initiatives in Yugoslavia and its republics if they were aware of them. Respondents' views were also obtained on the break-up of the Soviet republics. Demographic data collected on each participant included age, education, occupation, religion, ethnic background, mother-tongue, citizenship, union membership, left/right political placement, sex, and income. A brief section, not asked in Albania, obtained data on lifestyle characteristics, such as household appliances and machines, recreation and hobby activities, and optimistic or pessimistic attitudes.

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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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Dollarization as a Monetary Arrangement for Emerging Market Economies (ICPSR 1250)

Released/updated on: 2002-03-08

Official dollarization refers to the adoption of the United States dollar as legal tender in place of the national currency. Some Latin American countries have recently dollarized, and others have seriously considered dollarization. This article discusses the reasons behind the surge of interest in dollarization and provides a review of the new academic literature on the topic. It discusses in detail some of the factors that are commonly considered to be the important costs and benefits of dollarizing. The paper also provides an analysis of the existing liability dollarization in several countries and its relation with official dollarization. Finally, it briefly looks at dollarization from the perspective of the United States.

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Ethnic Minorities and Political Support: An Examination of Mass Attitudes in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Belarus, 1998 (ICPSR 3713)

Released/updated on: 2003-08-27

Geographic coverage: Belarus, Kazakhstan, Global, Soviet Union, Kyrgyzstan

Time period: 1998-04-12--1998-07-06

The objective of this collection was to study the attachment of minorities, especially ethnic Russians outside Russia, to their country of residence and assess their level of support for its institutions and leaders. The survey posed the following questions: If variation in loyalty and support exist within a given minority, what explains the variation at the individual level? Is political support by ethnic minorities a rational calculation or is it the result of subjective, identity-related factors? Respondents were asked a series of questions about their perceptions of nationality, their attitudes toward the independence of their nation, the current state of their country compared with its former existence as part of the Soviet Union, and their financial position and future prospects, as well as the economic condition of their nation and the development of market economies. Additional questions focused on the status of the political system in which they resided, including trust in government, the development of democracy, which groups of people were being served by the government, feelings about personal political rights and the rights of the Russian-speaking population, ties with Russia, relations with other countries in Europe, human rights, the status of Russian culture, and common interests with other nations in the world. Respondents also provided information on their national language, which foreign languages children should study in school, and the importance of the Russian language. In addition, there were a variety of questions about employment, workers' rights, medical care, income levels, free speech, interest in politics, trust in other people, participation in elections, life satisfaction, feelings about other nationalities, preferences for interactions with other nationalities at work and home, and attitudes toward emigration and provision of gifts to government officials. Demographic items include employment status, earnings, citizenship, sex, country of birth, level of education, marital status, household composition, and age.

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Eurobarometer 77.2: Economic and Financial Crisis, Helplines for Social Services, Railway Competition, Food Production and Quality, and Cyber Security, March 2012 (ICPSR 34578)

Released/updated on: 2013-11-06

Geographic coverage: Cyprus, Portugal, Global, Malta, Greece, Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Latvia, Luxembourg, Ireland, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, France, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania, Hungary, Europe, United Kingdom, Spain, Czech Republic, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Estonia

Time period: 2012-03-10--2012-03-25

The Eurobarometer series is a unique cross-national and cross-temporal survey program conducted on behalf of the European Commission. These surveys regularly monitor public opinion in the European Union (EU) member countries and consist of standard modules and special topic modules. The standard modules address attitudes toward European unification, institutions and policies, measurements for general socio-political orientations, as well as respondent and household demographics. The special topic modules address such topics as agriculture, education, natural environment and resources, public health, public safety and crime, and science and technology.

This round of Eurobarometer surveys covers the following special topics: (1) helplines for social services, (2) railway competition, (3) food production and quality, and (4) cyber security. Questions in this survey address the respondent's usage, knowledge, and opinions of telephone hotlines and helplines for services of social value. Other questions pertain to the respondent's usage and opinions of the current railway system, as well as their opinions about the effects of additional competition in the rail market. Respondents were asked for their opinions concerning food supply, production, and quality. Additional questions focused on the respondent's usage of the Internet and their concerns regarding cybercrimes.

Demographic and other background information collected includes age, gender, nationality, marital status and parental relations, occupation, age when stopped full-time education, household composition, ownership of a fixed or mobile telephone and other goods, difficulties in paying bills, level in society, and Internet use. In addition, country-specific data includes type and size of locality, region of residence, and language of interview (select countries).

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Eurobarometer 78.2: European Parliament, Future of Europe and Consumer Behavior in the European Union, November-December 2012 (ICPSR 35251)

Released/updated on: 2014-10-09

Geographic coverage: Cyprus, Portugal, Global, Malta, Greece, Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Latvia, Luxembourg, Ireland, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, France, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Croatia, Romania, Hungary, United Kingdom, Spain, Czech Republic, Belgium, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Estonia

Time period: 2012-11-17--2012-12-02

The Eurobarometer series is a unique cross-national and cross-temporal survey program conducted on behalf of the European Commission. These surveys regularly monitor public opinion in the European Union (EU) member countries and consist of standard modules and special topic modules. The standard modules address attitudes towards European unification, institutions and policies, measurements for general socio-political orientations, as well as respondent and household demographics. The special topic modules address such topics as agriculture, education, natural environment and resources, public health, public safety and crime, and science and technology.

This round of Eurobarometer surveys covers the following special topics: (1) Future of Europe, and (2) Consumer behavior in the European Union. In regard to the future of Europe, opinions were collected on the expected quality of life for future generations, main challenges for the EU to face in the future, predictions on whether EU society will place more importance on solidarity or individualism and predictions of whether the EU will be a leading diplomatic power. In regard to consumer behavior, respondents were asked if they had a legitimate cause for complaint during a transaction, what type of action was taken during the interaction, court ruling where a business was taken to court, willingness to go to court, reasons to go to court in another EU member state, and European small claims procedure. Additional information includes respondents' sources of political knowledge and to what extent they feel well informed on political matters.

Demographic and other background information collected includes age, gender, nationality, marital status and parental relations, occupation, age when stopped full-time education, household composition, ownership of a fixed or a mobile telephone and other durable goods, difficulties in paying bills, level in society, and Internet use. In addition, country-specific data includes type and size of locality, region of residence, and language of interview (select countries).

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Evolution of Monetary Policy in Transition Economies (ICPSR 1219)

Released/updated on: 2000-08-28

Geographic coverage: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Global

The last decade of the 20th century brought about many economic and financial changes in the economies of former communist countries. This article provides an overview of the developments that took place in financial markets, institutions, and monetary policies of three of the most advanced transition economies: the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. After examining the evolution of monetary policy in each country, the authors highlight the problems that monetary authorities have faced in these countries and describe the current approach to managing inflation. The authors state that although monetary policy has made a significant contribution to stabilization, the relative newness and fragility of these countries' markets and institutions remains a concern because of the heavy burden placed on monetary authorities in the battle to reduce inflation. They caution that it will be important to continue to strengthen the capital market in these countries and to provide more active fiscal policy support for monetary policy.

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Firm Volatility and Credit: A Macroeconomic Analysis (ICPSR 25062)

Released/updated on: 2009-03-11

Geographic coverage: United States

This paper examines a tractable real business cycle model with idiosyncratic productivity shocks and binding credit constraints on entrepreneurs. The model shows how firm volatility increases in combination with credit market development. It further generates the observed co-movement of credit and firm volatility with output at business cycle frequencies in response to aggregate productivity shocks.

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Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM): Expert Questionnaire Data, 1999-2003 (ICPSR 21862)

Released/updated on: 2009-06-26

Geographic coverage: Singapore, Hong Kong, United States, China (Peoples Republic), Scotland, Thailand, Portugal, Iceland, Global, Greece, Netherlands, South Korea, Sweden, Ireland, Brazil, Slovenia, France, Chile, Croatia, Argentina, Hungary, Japan, United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Switzerland, India, Spain, New Zealand, Canada, Venezuela, Belgium, Norway, Taiwan, Finland, Denmark, South Africa, Italy, Mexico, Uganda, Israel, Australia, Germany

Time period: 1999-01-01--2003-01-01

The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) was designed to capture various aspects of firm creation and entrepreneurship across countries. The data have been collected over a number of years (1998-2003) and include responses from 4,685 experts in over 38 countries and three subnational regions. This study seeks to measure the national attributes considered critical for new firm births and small firm growth. The dataset is a harmonized file capturing the results from all of the surveys. The expert, or key informant, questionnaire was improved and adjusted each year to increase the reliability of multi-item indices and provide for the addition of new dimensions. For each version of the questionnaire, respondents completed 70-80 standardized items that were the basis for 12-15 multi-item indices. Respondents were initially asked a series of general questions pertaining to starting a business, such as whether they were currently trying to start a new business, whether they knew anyone who had started a new business, and whether they thought it was a good time to do so. Respondents were also asked about the process of starting up a new business; whether they had done anything to start a new business in the past 12 months; whether they would own all, part, or none of the new business; how many people would be involved with the new business; what sort of business they were starting; and what they would sell. In addition, respondents identified the total start-up costs, the various sources of the start-up money, and why they were involved in the start-up. Respondents then answered a set of questions to assess the national conditions influencing entrepreneurial activity in their own country. In this respect, respondents provided their opinions on business and entrepreneurial education, the integration of new technology in businesses, the availability of financial support through government policies and programs, the availability of subcontractors, yearly changes in the economic market, and the physical infrastructure in their country. Views were also elicited from respondents about their national cultures in regard to entrepreneurial efforts and opportunities, attitudes towards entrepreneurs in general, women entrepreneurs and the resources available to them, and citizens' knowledge and experience with new businesses. They also gave their views on the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) legislation and its enforcement in their respective countries. Respondents were then queried on the technological strengths of their country by ranking the top five sectors in which there has been development of the greatest number of technology-intensive start-up companies in the past ten years. Finally, respondents were asked the same general questions as those used in the GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP MONITOR (GEM): ADULT POPULATION SURVEY DATA SET, 1998-2003 (ICPSR 20320) in order to ascertain whether the opinions and behaviors of the current "expert" respondents differ from those of the general population. These questions included whether they were starting a new business, if there were opportunities for new businesses, funding sources for a new business, skills required to start a new business, shutting down a business, and whether a fear of failure was preventing the start of a new business. The dataset also contains variables that describe the respondent's gender, age, educational attainment, labor force status, the entrepreneurial areas in which they feel they have strong expertise, and the month and year the survey was conducted.

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Open Market Operations and the Federal Funds Rate (ICPSR 21303)

Released/updated on: 2007-11-08

Geographic coverage: United States

It is commonly believed that the Fed's ability to control the federal funds rate stems from its ability to alter the supply of liquidity in the overnight market through open market operations. This paper uses daily data compiled by the author from the records of the Trading Desk of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York over the period March 1, 1984, through December 31, 1996. The author analyzes the Desk's use of its operating procedure in implementing monetary policy and the extent to which open market operations affect the federal funds rate-- the liquidity effect. The author finds that the operating procedure was used to guide daily open market operations. However, there is little evidence of a liquidity effect at the daily frequency and even less evidence at lower frequencies. Consistent with the absence of a liquidity effect, open market operations appear to be a relatively unimportant source of liquidity to the federal funds market.

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Price Quotations in Early United States Securities Markets, 1790-1860 (ICPSR 4053)

Released/updated on: 2005-08-24

Geographic coverage: United States, England, United Kingdom, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, New York City, Charleston (South Carolina), Baltimore, Massachusetts, Louisiana, London, New Orleans, Alexandria, Virginia, Maryland, Philadelphia, Boston, Norfolk, Richmond

Time period: 1790-01-01--1860-01-01

The dataset is a compilation of prices of public securities (equities and bonds) traded in nine United States securities markets and in London during the period between the United States Revolutionary and Civil Wars. The data were gathered by scanning early United States periodicals chronicling the period from 1786-1862. The data were concentrated on what were termed "runs" of securities quotations broken down by days, weeks, or months for each of the ten cities in the data set. Runs are series of bids and offer quotes for different securities and maturities. Within each part (market), the data were divided by issuer sectors or types. There may be some redundancy in the data, because when there was doubt about categorizing similar issues under a key code they were categorized under separate codes.

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A Primer on the Empirical Identification of Government Spending Shocks (ICPSR 22681)

Released/updated on: 2008-06-09

Geographic coverage: United States

The empirical literature on the effects of government spending shocks lacks unanimity about the responses of consumption and wages. Proponents of shocks identified by structural vector autoregressions (VARs) find results consistent with New Keynesian models: consumption and wages increase. On the other hand, proponents of the narrative approach find results consistent with neoclassical models: consumption and wages decrease. This paper reviews these two identifications and confirms their differences by using standard economic series. It also uses alternative measures of government spending, output, and the labor market and shows that, although there are minor fluctuations within each identification, the disparate results between the two are robust to the alternative measures. However, under the structural VAR approach, the authors find some differences between the responses to federal and state/local government spending.

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Survey of Employment, Income, and Attitudes in Russia (SEIAR), January-March 1998 (ICPSR 2732)

Released/updated on: 1999-07-16

Geographic coverage: Global, Russia

Time period: 1998-01-01--1998-03-01

The purpose of this study was to assess the ways in which recent economic and social changes in Russia, specifically those since the collapse of the Soviet system, have affected the social stratification of Russian society, the composition and nature of the Russian labor market, and Russian public opinion regarding the state of the Russian economy. The survey covered the population of the Russian Federation 16 years of age and older, excluding residents of four Caucasus republics and eight inaccessible regions of the Russian far north. Respondents were asked to complete a self-administered written questionnaire in the presence of an interviewer, with a portion of the survey administered directly by the interviewer. The main aim of the project was to gather information on respondents' social origins (including past affiliation with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), income and standard of living, activity or work history since 1990, and current attitudes toward the economy and market reforms. Specifically, respondents were asked about both their current and 1990 occupations and sources of income (and changes within that period), and their assessments of the current economic situation for their family, city, region, and Russia as a whole. They were also queried about personal experiences with wage delays and compulsory unpaid leave, and whether they thought current and planned market reforms would eventually improve their lives. Demographic information on respondents includes age, sex, marital status, household size, education, parental background, income, and current employment status.

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Survey of Soviet Values, 1990 (ICPSR 6099)

Released/updated on: 1994-10-20

Geographic coverage: Armenia, Latvia, Georgia (Republic), Moldova, Lithuania, Belarus, Global, Russia, Estonia

This dataset contains survey information from parts of the former Soviet Union located in Europe: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belorussia, Ukraine, Moldavia, Georgia, Armenia, and Russia west of the Ural Mountains. It was designed to assess respondents' commitment to democratic values and rates of political participation of the Soviet mass public. Major topics covered include conventional and unconventional political participation, political tolerance, support for democratic elections, support for pluralistic media, rights consciousness, anti-Semitism, and support for market institutions.

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Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study, El Beni, Bolivia, 2002-2010 (ICPSR 37671)

Released/updated on: 2022-11-30

Geographic coverage: Bolivia, El Beni

Time period: 2002-01-01--2010-01-01

This is an annual longitudinal panel study of the Tsimane' society, referred to as the Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study (TAPS). The Tsimane' are native Amazonian foragers-horticulturists who live mainly in the Department of El Beni, Bolivia. TAPS is aimed at measuring the impact on a small-scale rural society undergoing lifestyle changes from unabating contact with the market economy. All residents in 13 villages along the Maniqui River were surveyed annually from 2002 until 2010.

Variables in the dataset capture a broad range of data on socioeconomic conditions and health status, including: demography; exact physical measurements (anthropometrics); horticultural inputs and outputs; uses of natural resources; current wealth in physical assets and recent monetary earnings; conviviality; health status and medical test results; and substance use.

The units of analysis are villages, households, and individuals.

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United States Entrepreneurial Assessment, 2004 (ICPSR 4688)

Released/updated on: 2007-06-27

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2004-09-10--2004-12-20

This Entrepreneurial Assessment project is a study of the prevalence of entrepreneurship in the United States. One of the major purposes of this study was to explore the value of creating an index of entrepreneurial activity to complement existing measures that track the status of all national economies. It is designed to provide an overview of the extent of activity, the types of individuals who get involved, the nature of the businesses that are created, and the major sources of differences in entrepreneurial activity: personal, regional, or temporal. It is the direct measurement of citizen participation in the creation of new firms. Respondents were asked for their opinions and experiences in creating new businesses, firms' ownership and type, expectation for the new firm, and personal investment. Other items addressed the firms' products, markets and customers, financial situations, management and organizational structures, and locations. These topics were assessed for the individual company both in terms of initial status and current status. Background information includes respondent's age, gender, marital status, race, household income, occupation, employment status, education, household composition, place to use the Internet.

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US Census Firm Concentration Data, 1972-2012 (ICPSR 37961)

Released/updated on: 2021-08-26

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1972-01-01--2012-01-01

Since the passing of the 1953 Title 13 U.S. Code, Congress gave the Census Bureau authority to conduct an economic census every 5 years on years that end in a 2 or 7. This code mandated that all economic firms must provide requested information, and it required the Bureau to maintain the confidentiality of the individual records. Respondents are asked to provide a range of operational and performance data for their companies.

This collection is compiled from publicly available U.S. Census Bureau data and publications. This data comes from a mix of digitized paper documents, CD-ROMs/Floppy discs, now-discontinued FTP servers, and the US Census Bureau website. However, this data is not a complete sample of the US economic census. This collection has variables related to the type of establishment, year, business sector, payroll, number of employees, number of firms, and shipments. Some inquiries apply to some industries but not others, such as materials consumed and franchising