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Comparing Revenues in the LBD-SSEL, CMF/ASM, and QFR

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I construct a measure of firm-level revenue for the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) and compare it to two other sources of firm-level revenue: the Census of Manufactures / Annual Survey of Manufactures (CMF/ASM) and the Quarterly Financial Report (QFR). I have three main findings: (1) I can measure revenue for a large fraction of the LBD in most years, though to do so I must use lagged values of revenue. (2) Many of the QFR submasters do not have LBD revenue, and thus could be used to impute revenue for the LBD; very few CMF observations are lacking in LBD revenue. (3) LBD revenue seems to be falling over time when compared to revenue from either the CMF/ASM or the QFR, though this effect seems to be driven by the tails of the distribution; in general the three measures of revenue are in agreement in the center of the distribution.

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  • N. Aaron Pancost, 2022. "Comparing Revenues in the LBD-SSEL, CMF/ASM, and QFR," CES Technical Notes Series 22-10, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
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    QFR; LBD; SSEL; CMF; ASM;
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