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Adjustment Weights 1891-1911: Weights to adjust entrepreneur numbers for non-response and misallocation bias in Censuses 1891-1911. Working paper 11

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This paper explains the use of weights to adjust the Censuses 1891-1911 for non-response and misallocation bias. The weights themselves are in a separate file available for download. The weights allow adjustment of observations to ‘correct’ values of when using data from I-CeM or the Entrepreneurs database at UKDA 1851-1911 developed from the ESRC project ES/M010953 Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses. The paper provides detailed documentation of how the data base should be adjusted and the weighted data interpreted. More detailed discussion of the difficulties that arise in these three censuses is provided in the paper by Bennett et al. (2018) to which this working paper is linked.

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  • Montebruno, Piero, 2018. "Adjustment Weights 1891-1911: Weights to adjust entrepreneur numbers for non-response and misallocation bias in Censuses 1891-1911. Working paper 11," MPRA Paper 103194, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:103194
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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. Van Lieshout, Carry & Smith, Harry & Montebruno, Piero & Bennett, Robert J., 2019. "Female entrepreneurship: business, marriage and motherhood in England and Wales, 1851–1911," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 115354, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.

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    Keywords

    Entrepreneurship; Employers; Self-employment; Small businesses; Census 1891; Census 1901; Census 1911; non-response bias; misallocation bias;
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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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