Reconstructing business proprietor responses for censuses 1851-81: a tailored logit cut-off method. Working paper 9.2.

Bennett, Robert and Montebruno, Piero and Smith, Harry and van Lieshout, Carry (2019): Reconstructing business proprietor responses for censuses 1851-81: a tailored logit cut-off method. Working paper 9.2.

Abstract

This paper extends the reconstruction method developed in WP 9 to identify entrepreneurs 1851-81. Its aim is to identify the individual employers and own-account business people for 1851-1881, where employment status was not explicitly identified in the population censuses. This paper develops a method of variable logit cut-offs tailored to each occupation code. This allows the original census responses can be supplemented to give approximately all employers and own account. The aim is to provide a further resource for subsequent researchers, which is available in the database deposited at UK Data Archive (UKDA) as the British Census of Entrepreneurs 1851-1911 (BBCE), derived from the ESRC-supported project ES/M010953 Drivers of Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Employers; Self-employment; Small businesses; Census
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics > D13 - Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation; D - Microeconomics > D2 - Production and Organizations > D22 - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis; L - Industrial Organization > L2 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior > L25 - Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope; L - Industrial Organization > L2 - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior > L26 - Entrepreneurship

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