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Understanding Business Dynamics: An Integrated Data System for America's Future (2007)
Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT)

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Understanding Business Dynamics: An Integrated Data System for America’s Future

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Limitations of the Current Data System for Measuring Business Dynamics

  

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 4.1  Data Coverage of Young and Small Businesses,

  

67
   

 4.2  Gaps in Data on Business Dynamics and on Small, Young, and Nascent Firms,

  

77
   

 4.3  Systemic Deficiencies,

  

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 4.4  Appendix: Data-Sharing History,

  

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Improving Data and Statistics on Business Dynamics—Bridging the Gap Between the Current and a Comprehensive System

  

92
   

 5.1  Expanding Data Sources for Measuring Business Dynamics,

  

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 5.2  More Effective Use of Existing Information,

  

100
   

 5.3  Changing the Data-Sharing Environment to Realize Systemic Efficiency,

  

110
   

 5.4  Recommendation Priorities and Costs,

  

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References

  

117

 

  

Appendixes

  

 

A

  

Overview of Current Data Collections

  

123
   

 A.1  Counting Firms and Cataloging Essential Characteristics—The Business Lists,

  

124
   

 A.2  Tracking Businesses over Time: Business List-Based Sources of Longitudinal Microdata,

  

130
   

 A.3  Data Sources Designed to Improve Coverage of Small and Young Businesses,

  

136
   

 A.4  Employment Statistics,

  

139
   

 A.5  Data on the Self-Employed, Entrepreneurs, and Business Gestation,

  

142
   

 A.6  Data Coverage of Special Sectors: Agriculture, Nonprofits, and E-Commerce,

  

148
   

 A.7  Financial Data,

  

152
   

 References,

  

154
   

 Table A-1  Business Data Sets,

  

158

B

  

Biographical Sketches of Panel Members and Staff

  

172

 

  

Index

  

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