{"doc_desc":{"title":"zaf-steg-ccmfs-1950-2022-v1","producers":[{"name":"DataFirst","abbreviation":"","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","role":"Metadata producer"}],"prod_date":"2024-06-09","version_statement":{"version":"Version 2"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"zaf-steg-ccmfs-1950-2022-v1","title":"Cross Country Mean Firm Size Data 1950-2022","alt_title":"CCMFS 1950-2022"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Andrew Kerr","affiliation":"Structural Transformation and Economic Growth Initiative"},{"name":"Nic Forster","affiliation":"University of Cape Town"}],"production_statement":{"funding_agencies":[{"name":"Structural Transformation and Economic Growth","abbreviation":"STEG","role":"Funding agency"}]},"distribution_statement":{"contact":[{"name":"DataFirst Support","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","email":"support@data1st.org","uri":"www.support.data1st.org"}]},"series_statement":{"series_name":"Replication\/Reproducibility Data"},"version_statement":{"version":"v1: Edited, anonymised data for public distribution","version_date":"2023-11-29"},"study_info":{"abstract":"The Cross Country Mean Firm Size data was created by Andrew Kerr of the University of Cape Town as part of a project entitled \u201cFirm size and Economic Growth in sub-Saharan Africa\u201d, which was funded by the Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG) initiative. The data covers 198 countries from 1950 to 2022 and is created from several sources. These include IPUMS population census microdata from IPUMS, United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) aggregated population census data, aggregated household survey data from the International Labour Organization (ILO), replication data from papers by Bento and Restuccia (2017) and Poschke (2018), microdata from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) and GDP per capita information from the Penn World Table.","coll_dates":[{"start":"1950","end":"2022","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"World","abbreviation":"wd"}],"geog_unit":"The data is at the country level","data_kind":"Other","notes":"This data covers firm sizes and other firm-level information for firms in 198 countries."},"method":{"data_collection":{"coll_mode":["Other"],"coll_situation":"The Cross Country Mean Firm Size data is created from several sources, including census microdata from the IPUMS project at the University of Minnesota; aggregated population census data from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD); aggregated household survey data from the International Labour Organization (ILO); microdata from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES); GDP per capita data from the Penn World Table; and replication data from papers by Bento and Restuccia (2017) and Poschke (2018)."}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"contact":[{"name":"DataFirst","affiliation":"University of Cape Town","email":"support@data1st.org","uri":"support.data1st.org"}],"cit_req":"Kerr, Andrew. Cross Country Mean Firm Size Data 1950-2022  [dataset]. Version 1. London: Structural Transformation and Economic Growth Initiative [producer], 2023. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2023. DOI:  https:\/\/doi.org\/10.25828\/ycgf-a446","conditions":"Public access data for use under a Creative Commons CC-BY (Attribution-only) License"}}},"schematype":"survey"}