Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Entrepreneurship, Geography, and Growth
- 3 Regional Variation in Entrepreneurial Activity
- 4 Human Capital and Entrepreneurship
- 5 Entrepreneurship and Employment Growth
- 6 Summary and Theoretical Insights
- 7 A Formulation of Entrepreneurship Policy
- Appendix A: Firm Formation and Growth Data from the Longitudinal Establishment and Enterprise Microdata (LEEM)
- Appendix B: 1995 + 1996 Firm Formation Rates for U.S. Labor Market Areas with 1994 Labor Force and Establishments
- Appendix C: Service Industry Standard Industrial Classification (4-digit SIC) Codes and Their Subsectors, with 1995 Establishment and Employment and Changes to 1998, and 1996 through 1998 Firm Formations per 100 Establishments in Subsector in 1995
- Appendix D: 1991–1996 Employment Growth Rates and Share of High-Growth Establishments in Labor Market Areas, with 1991 Employment, Establishments, and Population, and 1991–1996 Population Growth and Relative Employment Growth Rates
- References
- Index
Appendix A: Firm Formation and Growth Data from the Longitudinal Establishment and Enterprise Microdata (LEEM)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Entrepreneurship, Geography, and Growth
- 3 Regional Variation in Entrepreneurial Activity
- 4 Human Capital and Entrepreneurship
- 5 Entrepreneurship and Employment Growth
- 6 Summary and Theoretical Insights
- 7 A Formulation of Entrepreneurship Policy
- Appendix A: Firm Formation and Growth Data from the Longitudinal Establishment and Enterprise Microdata (LEEM)
- Appendix B: 1995 + 1996 Firm Formation Rates for U.S. Labor Market Areas with 1994 Labor Force and Establishments
- Appendix C: Service Industry Standard Industrial Classification (4-digit SIC) Codes and Their Subsectors, with 1995 Establishment and Employment and Changes to 1998, and 1996 through 1998 Firm Formations per 100 Establishments in Subsector in 1995
- Appendix D: 1991–1996 Employment Growth Rates and Share of High-Growth Establishments in Labor Market Areas, with 1991 Employment, Establishments, and Population, and 1991–1996 Population Growth and Relative Employment Growth Rates
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
The Longitudinal Establishment and Enterprise Microdata (LEEM) comprises skeletal data on almost all U.S. private sector businesses that paid any employees during the period from 1989 through 2001. These data have been linked together over time so that there are annual observations on each business establishment, including information on the entire firm (or enterprise) to which it belongs each year. Each establishment is a business location at which goods or services are produced, and these establishments are carefully tracked over time, even as they change legal form, ownership, primary industry, or location. Potentially new businesses are identified from new entries in the Master Business List of the Internal Revenue Service, and Census Bureau programs then use additional administrative data, surveys, economic censuses, and estimates to collect more detailed information on each business and to update this annually.
These microdata facilitate research on the dynamics of American businesses – especially on their patterns of formation, employment change, mergers and acquisitions, and survival. These patterns can be analyzed for establishments in different industry sectors and regions, and for firms of various sizes and other characteristics. They constitute the only comprehensive source of longitudinal microdata covering most U.S. businesses that includes the characteristics of the firm to which each establishment belongs.
Brief Description of the LEEM Database
The LEEM database (which the U.S. Small Business Administration refers to as the Business Information Tracking Series, or BITS) is a unique product of the complex register that Census maintains, with information on all businesses in the United States.
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- Entrepreneurship, Geography, and American Economic Growth , pp. 173 - 182Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006