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Article: The statistics corner: research with economic microdata: the Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies.
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- Business Economics
- Article date:
- July 1, 1993
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In a typical year, the Census Bureau's Economic Programs area carries out scores of surveys or censuses of business establishments and firms. These surveys produce a myriad of "data products" (as the Census Bureau calls them), most of which consist of aggregated sums and cross tabulations, across various economic sectors (industries, states, size classes, etc.). The vast majority of the readers of this journal use one or more of these data products directly or indirectly (for example, through the National Income and Product Accounts or the Merchandise Trade Statistics).(1)
While most readers are familiar with Census Bureau data products, they may not be familiar with ...