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  Businesses - Non USA ::
  
  
• County Business Patterns (1967+)
  Summary statistics extracted from the Census Bureau's Standard Statistical Establishment List (SSEL). Provide data on the total number of establishments, mid-March employment, first quarter and annual payroll, and the number of establishments by employment-size class for all business establishments with one or more paid employees. Data are tabulated by detailed kinds of business based on the 1972 revised Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) designations (for 1987 data and earlier years) and on 1987 revised SIC designations (for 1988 data and later years). Contains data broken down by state and county, as well as United States summary data. SMSA summary data are not available from the Census Bureau after 1979. Data are provided for most divisions of the economy, including agricultural services, mining, construction, manufacturing, transportation, public utilities, wholesale trade, retail trade, finance, insurance, real estate, and services. However, data are not included for agriculture production, railroad, government, or household employment. For 1946+ use the paper in Firestone. HC106.5.A13

• Entrepreneurship and the Policy Environment
  Uses a panel approach to examine the effect that the government-policy environment has on the level of entrepreneurship. Investigates whether marginal income tax rates and bankruptcy exemptions influence rates of entrepreneurship.

• Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Adult Population Survey Data Set, 1998-2003
  Designed to capture various aspects of firm creation and entrepreneurship across countries.

• Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM): Expert Questionnaire Data, 1999-2003
  Designed to capture various aspects of firm creation and entrepreneurship across countries. Seeks to measure the national attributes considered critical for new firm births and small firm growth.

  Sample Size: 4,685 experts from over 38 countries and 3 subnational regions: Hong Kong, Shenzhen (China), and Taiwan.

• Microfinance Revolution: An Overview
  Microfinance in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Mexico, and the United States.

• Organizations Convicted in Federal Criminal Courts (1987+)
  Offense and sentencing characteristics for organizations sentenced in federal district courts.

• Patterns in the Bankruptcy Reorganization of Large, Publicly Held Companies, 1979-1988: [United States]
  Information on select large, publicly held companies that filed for bankruptcy during 1979-1988. The goal of the study was to identify patterns in the filing, processing, and distributions of bankruptcy reorganization in large, publicly held companies. Data were collected on the companies' income, assets, sales, trading, value of stocks and notes, equity, claims, debt filing, mode of bankruptcy filing, secured and unsecured claims, distribution to unsecured creditors and equity holders, and liquidation. Data are also provided on the name of the debtor company, place, date, and day of bankruptcy filing, and the number of persons employed by the company before and after filing for bankruptcy. Additional information is provided on changes at the chief executive officer (CEO) level before, during, and after bankruptcy, and on the CEO's exit salary.

• Survey of Consumer Attitudes and Behavior (1953+)
  Measure changes in consumer attitudes and expectations, to understand why these changes occur, to evaluate how they relate to consumer decisions to save, borrow, or make discretionary purchases, and to forecast changes in aggregate consumer behavior. Changes in consumers' willingness to buy are best assessed by making use of the answers to all questions asked in the surveys, especially the open-ended questions that probe underlying reasons. Nevertheless, in order to make available a summary measure of change in consumer sentiment, the Survey Research Center uses the answers to selected questions to calculate an Index of Consumer Sentiment. Each survey also probes a different aspect of consumer confidence. The surveys use a national sample of dwelling units selected by area probability sampling that is representative of the adult population of the United States.

  Sample Size: National sample of dwelling units selected by area probability sampling that is representative of the adult population of the United States.

• Survey of Consumer Finances. 1947-1971, 1977, 1983+
  Since 1983, conducted every 3 years. Collects information on the assets, liabilities and other financial characteristics of households. Only U.S. survey that contains an oversample of wealthy households. For data prior to 1983, see ICPSR.

  Documentation: (Codebooks) (DSS) HC110.S3 S88

  Sample Size: About 4,500 families are interviewed in the main study.

• Survey of Small Business Finances (SSBF) (1987, 1993, 1998, 2003)
  Collects information on small businesses (fewer than 500 employees) in the United States. Owner characteristics, firm size, use of financial services, and the income and balance sheets of the firm are just some examples of the types of information collected.

• U.S. Regional Business Cycles and the Natural Rate of Unemployment
  

• United States Business and Jobs: Structure and Changes by Sector and County, 1976-1988
  Provides a description of the changes in businesses and jobs in all United States counties, by 75 two-digit industry sectors. Designed to inquire to what extent new firm formation and small firm expansion reflect or cause economic growth. Contains detailed data on establishment births, establishment deaths, expansion and contraction of all private-sector business establishments, and on the number of business jobs affected by these changes.