Geocoding LBD Establishments

Leah Brooks, Andrea DeLisa, Rachel Meltzer and Erica Moszkowski

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

Abstract: To the extent possible, we add latitude and longitude geocodes to all establishments in the Longitudinal Business Database, 1982 to 2021. Years 2007 and onward are already geocoded by Census employees, and our methods made modest improvements for these observations. For years 1982 to 2006, we substantially improve the share of observations geocoded. Our geocoding process has six major steps, all relying on publicly available data, and each contributes to the improvement in data quality.

Keywords: LBD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-07
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