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Understanding and improving the firm-level revenue measures from the Business Register (BR) files

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  • Chen Yeh
  • Claudia Macaluso

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In this technical report, we construct and analyze measures of firm-level revenues for 1997-2017. Our analysis consists of four parts. First, we start by understanding the sample characteristics of the firm-level revised LBD (version 2019) that can be merged with the Business Register (BR) revenue files as constructed by Haltiwanger et al. (2020). In particular, we characterize which types of firms are most likely to have missing revenues (in terms of size and industry). Second, we characterize the sample characteristics of the establishment-level revised LBD (version 2019) that can be merged with a variety of Economic Censuses that include revenues. Third, we analyze whether firm-level revenue measures from the BR files can be improved upon by constructing revenue measures from the Economic Censuses and the Service Annual Survey files. Fourth and last, we compare firm-level revenues that are obtained from the BR files and the Economic Censuses.

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  • Chen Yeh & Claudia Macaluso, 2023. "Understanding and improving the firm-level revenue measures from the Business Register (BR) files," CES Technical Notes Series 23-03, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau.
    • Handle: RePEc:cen:tnotes:23-03
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