The manufacturing plant ownership change database: its construction and usefulness

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Nguyen, Sang V.^a

Affiliations: [a] Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Bureau of the Census, 4700 Silver Hill Road, Stop 6300, Washington, DC 20233-6300, USA. Tel.: +1 301 457 1882; Fax: +1 301 457 1235; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: The Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Bureau of the Census, has constructed the ``Manufacturing Plant Ownership Change Database'' (OCD) using plant-level data taken from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research Database (LRD). The OCD contains data on all manufacturing establishments that have experienced ownership change at least once during the period 1963--1992. This is a unique data set which, together with the LRD, can be used to conduct a variety of economic studies that were not possible before. This paper describes how the OCD was constructed and discusses the usefulness of these data in economic research.

Keywords: manufacturing, plant-level data, ownership change, data matching

DOI: 10.3233/JEM-1998-0152

Journal: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, vol. 24, no. 3-4, pp. 209-232, 1998