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Company Births, Deaths and Marriages: Flaws in Age Fields in Business Microdata
Author(s) -
Muurlink Olav,
Wilkinson Adrian,
Peetz David,
Townsend Keith
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
australian economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 1467-8462
pISSN - 0004-9018
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2011.00642.x
Subject(s) - microdata (statistics) , subsidiary , population , geography , demographic economics , demography , political science , business , economy , sociology , economics , law , census , multinational corporation
In identifying gazelles (generally defined in the literature as young, fast growing businesses) researchers traditionally rely on commercially available databases not designed for scholarly work, to identify a pool of suitable study participants. This paper discusses systemic biases in the most commonly-deployed databased used in gazelle studies, the Dun and Bradstreet database, with a focus on the Australian market.No Full Tex