U.S. Establishment and Enterprise Microdata (USEEM), 1988, and the 1984-1988 Weighted Linked U.S. Establishment Longitudinal Microdata (USELM)

摘要

The Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration has sponsored the development of the U.S. Establishment and Enterprise Microdata (USEEM) and the U.S. Establishment and Longitudinal Microdata (USELM) since 1979. Public Law 96-302 mandated a data base suitable for describing and analyzing U.S. businesses, with special attention to the small business sector. USEEM data for the even-numbered years 1976-1988 have been developed by carefully evaluating, editing, and adapting Dun & Bradstreet's Duns Marketing Identifier (DMI) files to represent a consistent U.S. business population over time. The information available is suitable for a broad range of studies of business dynamics, industrial organization, regional development, targeted policies for employment growth and other policy analyses. The data can be selected and analyzed on either an establishment or a firm basis, since information on the owning firm supplements each establishment record. In addition to the identification number for each establishment, each file includes data covering the location (state and county) of the establishment, its local employment and industry, if a firm, its starting year, employment, and sales, its organizational status, if part of a multi-establishment firm (or enterprise), its connection to other establishments, its firm-wide employment size class and industry, and the state location of the top (owner) of the firm.