1.5 million missing numbers: Overcoming employment suppression in County Business Patterns data

International Regional Science Review

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 311-335

  Isserman, Andrew M ^a   Westervelt, James D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

County data; Data confidentiality; Employment data; Estimation; Regional analysis; Suppression

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; REGIONAL ECONOMY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745296757     PISSN: 01600176     EISSN: 15526925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0160017606290359     Document Type: Article

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