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An Analysis of Key Differences in Micro Data: Results from the Business List Comparison Project

Kristin Fairman, Lucia Foster, C.J. Krizan, Ian Rucker

September 01, 2008

The Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of the Census each maintain a business register, a universe of all U.S. business establishments and their characteristics, created from independent sources. Both registers serve critical functions such as supplying aggregate data inputs for certain national statistics generated by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. This paper examines key micro-level differences across these two business registers.

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