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Article: The longitudinal research database: status and research possibilities.
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- Survey of Current Business
- Article date:
- November 1, 1988
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The Longitudinal Research Database: Status and Research Possibilities
Introduction
THE Longitudinal Research Database (LRD) is a large micro database(1) of establishment-level data constructed by pooling information from the Census of Manufactures (CM) and the Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM). It is housed within the Census Bureau at the Center for Economic Studies (the Center), which was established in 1982 to oversee the development of this database, to use the data to improve future Census Bureau data collection and reports, and to make the data available to outside users.
The construction of the database was itself a major achievement. ...