Volume 25, Number 4 (Fall) 1990
Bates, Timothy. 1990. "The Characteristics of Business Owners Data Base." Journal of Human Resources 25(4):752-756.
The Characteristics of Business Owners (CBO) data base was crated in 1987 by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. It was based upon a 1986 survey of 125,000 self-employed persons; it includes five self-contained samples of 25,000 each: 1) Hispanics, 2) blacks,3) all other minorities, 4) females, and 5) nonminority males. Two versions of the CBO data files focus, respectively, upon 1) self-employed persons, and 2) small firms. For each observation, data were collected upon owner human capital, demographic traits, and financial capital investment in one's firm. Firm specific data are extensive, including sales, profits, employment, payroll, etc.
The author is a professor of economics at the Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at the New School for Social Research. Research reported herein was supported by the National Science Foundation under grants SES84-01460 and SES87-13643, "On-site Research to Improve the Government-Generated Social Science Data Base." The research was conducted at the U.S. Bureau of the Census while the author was a participant in the American Statistical Association/ Census Bureau Research Program, which is supported by the Census Bureau and NSF. Any findings or conclusions herein are the author's and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Census Bureau or NSF.
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