Matching Compustat Data to the Business Register 1976 - 2016

Cristina Tello-Trillo and Sean Streiff

CES Technical Notes Series from Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau

Abstract: This document describes the methodology used for processing and matching Compustat to the Business Register (BR) to create the latest Compustat bridge (CSB) located in the data warehouse. The CSB maps a gvkey from Compustat to a firmid from LBD by year. Matching was performed in several steps which includes EIN, and fuzzy name and address matching. The Compustat bridge file starts in 1976 and ends in 2016.

Keywords: Compustat; LBD; SSEL; BRÂ (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-08
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