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Reconstructing business proprietor responses for censuses 1851-81: a tailored logit cut-off method. Working paper 9.2

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

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This paper extends the reconstruction method developed in WP 9 to identify entrepreneurs 1851-81. Its aim is to identify the individual employers and own-account business people for 1851-1881, where employment status was not explicitly identified in the population censuses. This paper develops a method of variable logit cut-offs tailored to each occupation code. This allows the original census responses can be supplemented to give approximately all employers and own account. The aim is to provide a further resource for subsequent researchers, which is available in the database deposited at UK Data Archive (UKDA) as the British Census of Entrepreneurs 1851-1911 (BBCE), derived from the ESRC-supported project ES/M010953 Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses.

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  • Bennett, Robert & Montebruno, Piero & Smith, Harry & van Lieshout, Carry, 2019. "Reconstructing business proprietor responses for censuses 1851-81: a tailored logit cut-off method. Working paper 9.2," MPRA Paper 103206, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. 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.
    2. Montebruno, Piero & Bennett, Robert J. & Van Lieshout, Carry & Smith, Harry & Satchell, Max, 2019. "Shifts in agrarian entrepreneurship in mid-Victorian England and Wales," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 113866, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    1. 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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