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Reconstructing entrepreneur and business numbers for censuses 1851-81. Working paper 9

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  • Bennett, Robert
  • Montebruno, Piero
  • Smith, Harry
  • van Lieshout, Carry

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This paper develops a reconstruction method to identify entrepreneurs 1851-81. Its aim is to reconstruct the numbers of employers and own account business people for 1851-1881, which are the years where employment status was not explicitly identified in the population censuses. The individuals are identified with varied levels of certainty. These will be invaluable resources for subsequent research and will be available in the entrepreneurs database deposited at UK Data Archive (UKDA), derived from the ESRC-supported project ES/M010953 Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses. The final reconstruction is used for a wide range of aggregate analysis in the ESRC-Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses.

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  • Bennett, Robert & Montebruno, Piero & Smith, Harry & van Lieshout, Carry, 2018. "Reconstructing entrepreneur and business numbers for censuses 1851-81. Working paper 9," MPRA Paper 103529, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. Robert J. Bennett & Harry Smith & Piero Montebruno, 2020. "The Population of Non-corporate Business Proprietors in England and Wales 1891–1911," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 62(8), pages 1341-1372, November.
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    1. Smith, Harry & Bennett, Robert J. & van Lieshout, Carry & Montebruno, Piero, 2020. "Households and entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851-1911," MPRA Paper 102647, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Robert J. Bennett & Harry Smith & Piero Montebruno & Carry van Lieshout, 2022. "Changes in Victorian entrepreneurship in England and Wales 1851-1911: Methodology and business population estimates," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 64(7), pages 1211-1243, September.
    3. Montebruno, Piero & Bennett, Robert & Smith, Harry & van Lieshout, Carry, 2019. "Machine learning classification of entrepreneurs in British historical census data," MPRA Paper 100469, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    Entrepreneurship; Employers; Self-employment; Small businesses; Census;
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    JEL classification:

    • D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
    • L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
    • L26 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Entrepreneurship

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