The building process of a new integrated system of business micro-data 1989–2004

Marco Grazzi, Roberto Sanzo, Angelo Secchi and Alessandro Zeli ()
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Roberto Sanzo: ISTAT, Postal: ISTAT, Via Tuscolana, Rome, Italy
Alessandro Zeli: ISTAT, Postal: ISTAT, Piazza dell'Indipendenza, Rome, Italy

Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2013, issue 4, 291-324

Abstract: This work describes the process of building Micro.3, an integrated database containing firm level information for Italian enterprises. Micro.3 covers the period 1989–2004 and represents the development of a previous database, Micro.1 which covered a much narrower set of variables and spanned only from 1989 to 1997. This works explains the motives that drove the development of Micro.3 and it details the decisions taken during the process of construction to ensure the continuity of the existing variables as they are retrieved from different sources. Finally, we presents some statistical evidence that enables the reader to assess the quality of Micro.3.

Keywords: Firm-level data; integrated database; Structural Business Statistics; unbalanced panel (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C81 C83 L11 L60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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