DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02555.v1
title: Patterns in the Bankruptcy Reorganization of Large, Publicly Held Companies, 1979-1988: [United States]
title: Version 1

description: This data collection gathered information on select large, publicly held companies that filed for bankruptcy during 1979-1988. The goal of the study was to identify patterns in the filing, processing, and distributions of bankruptcy reorganization in large, publicly held companies. Data were collected on the companies' income, assets, sales, trading, value of stocks and notes, equity, claims, debt filing, mode of bankruptcy filing, secured and unsecured claims, distribution to unsecured creditors and equity holders, and liquidation. Data are also provided on the name of the debtor company, place, date, and day of bankruptcy filing, and the number of persons employed by the company before and after filing for bankruptcy. Additional information is provided on changes at the chief executive officer (CEO) level before, during, and after bankruptcy, and on the CEO's exit salary.
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS0: Study-Level Files 
 DS1: Air Florida Data 
 DS2: Amarex Company Data 
 DS3: American International Data 
 DS4: Anglo Energy Data 
 DS5: Baldwin United Data 
 DS6: Braniff Airways Data 
 DS7: Charter Company Data 
 DS8: Combustion Equipment Company Data 
 DS9: Continental Airlines Data 
 DS10: Cook United Data 
 DS11: Crystal Oil Company Data 
 DS12: Dreco Incorporated Data 
 DS13: Energetics Company Data 
 DS14: EPIC Company Data 
 DS15: Evans Products Company Data 
 DS16: Funding Systems Corporation Data 
 DS17: HRT Company Data 
 DS18: Itel Corporation Data 
 DS19: King's Department Stores Data 
 DS20: Lionel Company Data 
 DS21: Manville Corporation Data 
 DS22: Marion Corporation Data 
 DS23: Mclouth Steel Corporation Data 
 DS24: MGF Oil Company Data 
 DS25: Narrative Data 
 DS26: NSF20 Data 
 DS27: NSF40 Data 
 DS28: NSF60 Data 
 DS29: NSF80 Data 
 DS30: NSF95 Data 
 DS31: NSFVENUE Data 
 DS32: Nucorp Company Data 
 DS33: Oxoco Company Data 
 DS34: Penn-Dixie Industries Data 
 DS35: Phoenix Steel Company Data 
 DS36: Pizza Time Theatre Company Data 
 DS37: Protocol Data 
 DS38: Revere Company Data 
 DS39: Salant Corporation Data 
 DS40: Sambo Corporation Data 
 DS41: Saxon Industries Data 
 DS42: Seatrain Lines Company Data 
 DS43: Smith International Company Data 
 DS44: Sorted Data 
 DS45: Storage Technology Company Data 
 DS46: Tacoma Company Data 
 DS47: Technical Equities Firm Data 
 DS48: Towle Manufacturing Company Data 
 DS49: Towner Petroleum Company Data 
 DS50: White Motor Company Data 
 DS51: Wickes Corporation Data 
 DS52: Wilson Foods Company Data
description: (1) Parts 26-31 are numeric data files that contain the variables NSF20, NSF40, NSF60, NSF80, NSF95, and NSFVENUE for all companies. The remaining 46 files in the collection are in ASCII text format, and they provide individual narrative descriptions of the bankruptcy filings for each separate company. The text files consist of one wrapped line. (2) The codebook, record layout, and data map are provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the Internet.
description: Bankruptcy reorganization cases filed by or against debtors in bankruptcy courts of the United States on or before October 1, 1979, with plan confirmed on or before March 15, 1988, and with debtor listed assets of $100 million or more and at least one class of the debtor's investment securities publicly held.