DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38834.v1
title: Early County Business Pattern Files: United States, 1946-1974
title: Version 1

description: The County Business Patterns ("CBP") is a data product by the U.S. Census Bureau that reports employment and establishment counts by industry and county. These files contain employment and establishment counts for detailed industry codes covering all counties in the United States from 1946-1974. Methods developed in Eckert, Fort, Schott, and Yang (2020a) were applied to impute missing employment observations in the raw data.
description: The purpose of this study was to digitize, clean, and prepare the County Business Pattern files from 1946-1974.
description: There are three categories of datasets: (1) the raw datasets for each year, (2) a consolidated panel dataset of employment and establishment counts for about 20 industries and all US counties, (3) estimates for suppressed employment counts for each year. Variables across all three categories include FIPS state and county codes, Standard Industry Classification (SIC) codes, and number of establishments with different ranges of number of employees.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: 1946 Raw Data DS2: 1947 Raw Data DS3: 1947 Aggregate Data DS4: 1947 Imputed Data DS5: 1948 Raw Data DS6: 1948 Aggregate Data DS7: 1948 Imputed Data DS8: 1949 Raw Data DS9: 1949 Aggregate Data DS10: 1949 Imputed Data DS11: 1950 Raw Data DS12: 1950 Aggregate Data DS13: 1950 Imputed Data DS14: 1951 Raw Data DS15: 1951 Aggregate Data DS16: 1951 Imputed Data DS17: 1953 Raw Data DS18: 1953 Aggregate Data DS19: 1953 Imputed Data DS20: 1956 Raw Data DS21: 1956 Aggregate Data DS22: 1956 Imputed Data DS23: 1959 Raw Data DS24: 1959 Aggregate Data DS25: 1959 Imputed Data DS26: 1962 Raw Data DS27: 1962 Aggregate Data DS28: 1962 Imputed Data DS29: 1964 Raw Data DS30: 1964 Aggregate Data DS31: 1964 Imputed Data DS32: 1965 Raw Data DS33: 1965 Aggregate Data DS34: 1965 Imputed Data DS35: 1966 Raw Data DS36: 1966 Aggregate Data DS37: 1966 Imputed Data DS38: 1967 Raw Data DS39: 1967 Aggregate Data DS40: 1967 Imputed Data DS41: 1968 Raw Data DS42: 1968 Aggregate Data DS43: 1968 Imputed Data DS44: 1969 Raw Data DS45: 1969 Aggregate Data DS46: 1969 Imputed Data DS47: 1970 Raw Data DS48: 1970 Imputed Data DS49: 1971 Raw Data DS50: 1971 Imputed Data DS51: 1972 Raw Data DS52: 1972 Imputed Data DS53: 1973 Raw Data DS54: 1973 Imputed Data DS55: 1974 Raw Data DS56: 1974 Imputed Data DS57: 1957 vs 1967 Concordance Standard Industry Classification Data DS58: 1967 vs 1972 Concordance Standard Industry Classification Data DS59: FIPS Changes Data DS60: FIPS 2018 Data DS61: Panel Data
description: All business establishments in the 50 states and the District of Columbia with one or more paid employees, excluding agriculture production, railroad, government, and household employment. Smallest Geographic Unit: FIPS code
description: record abstractsAdditional information can be found at the project website.Data is not available for every year. Below is additional information about what years data are or are not available: Between 1946 and 1974, CBP were published in 1946-1951, 1953, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1964-1974; 1946 has no suppression and thus is only included in the raw data, and only on the county-level; 1949 and 1950 include information on manufacturing industries only; 1970-1974 only have county-level data in the raw files.