CES-WP-02-17

The Longitudinal Business Database

Javier Miranda, Ron Jarmin

July 01, 2002

The LBD is a research dataset constructed at the Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies. The LBD is an establishment based file created by linking the annual snapshot files from Census Bureau's Business Register over time. It contains high quality longitudinal establishment linkages. Firm level linkages are currently under development at CES. The LBD contains several basic data items such as firm ownership, location, industry, payroll and employment.

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