Comparing Revenues in the LBD-SSEL, CMF/ASM, and QFR

N. Aaron Pancost

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

Abstract: I construct a measure of firm-level revenue for the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) and compare it to two other sources of firm-level revenue: the Census of Manufactures / Annual Survey of Manufactures (CMF/ASM) and the Quarterly Financial Report (QFR). I have three main findings: (1) I can measure revenue for a large fraction of the LBD in most years, though to do so I must use lagged values of revenue. (2) Many of the QFR submasters do not have LBD revenue, and thus could be used to impute revenue for the LBD; very few CMF observations are lacking in LBD revenue. (3) LBD revenue seems to be falling over time when compared to revenue from either the CMF/ASM or the QFR, though this effect seems to be driven by the tails of the distribution; in general the three measures of revenue are in agreement in the center of the distribution.

Keywords: QFR; LBD; SSEL; CMF; ASM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-06
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www2.census.gov/ces/tn/CES-TN-2022-10.pdf Abstract (application/pdf)
https://www.census.gov/about/adrm/ced/apply-for-access.html?CES-TN-2022-10 Confidential main document (application/pdf)
Researchers need to have obtained appropriate permissions.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cen:tnotes:22-10

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CES Technical Notes Series from Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Danielle H. Sandler ().