Abstract
James Spletzer (1997) "Longitudinal
Establishment Microdata at the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Development, Uses, and Access," Proceedings of the Section on Survey Research Methods,
American Statistical Association.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is currently
constructing a longitudinal database that will contain
quarterly employment and wage data for virtually all business
establishments in the United States. This longitudinal
database will enable us to track changes in employment and
wages not only at the macro level, but also at the micro
level of the establishment. This database, referred to as the
Longitudinal Database or LDB for short, will be used to
generate high quality, high frequency, timely and
historically consistent information regarding not only job
creation and job destruction, but also the life cycle of
establishments. The purpose of this paper is to describe this
database and to present some research results that will
highlight the uses of this database
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