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Cross Country Mean Firm Size Data 1950-2022

World, 1950 - 2022
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zaf-steg-ccmfs-1950-2022-v1
Producer(s)
Andrew Kerr, Nic Forster
Collections
African Research Replication and Reproducibility Data
Metadata
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Created on
Nov 30, 2023
Last modified
Jun 09, 2024
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  • Data Access
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  • Metadata production

    • Identification

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    zaf-steg-ccmfs-1950-2022-v1
    Title

    Cross Country Mean Firm Size Data 1950-2022
    Country
    Name Country code
    World wd
    Study type

    Replication/Reproducibility Data
    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 “Firm size and Economic Growth in sub-Saharan Africa”, 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.
    Kind of Data

    Other

    Version

    Version Description

    v1: Edited, anonymised data for public distribution
    Version Date

    2023-11-29

    Scope

    Notes

    This data covers firm sizes and other firm-level information for firms in 198 countries.

    Coverage

    Geographic Unit

    The data is at the country level

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Andrew Kerr Structural Transformation and Economic Growth Initiative
    Nic Forster University of Cape Town
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    Structural Transformation and Economic Growth Funding agency

    Data Collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    1950 2022
    Mode of data collection
    • Other
    Data Collection Notes

    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

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst University of Cape Town support.data1st.org support@data1st.org
    Access conditions

    Public access data for use under a Creative Commons CC-BY (Attribution-only) License
    Citation requirements

    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

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    DataFirst Support University of Cape Town support@data1st.org www.support.data1st.org

    Metadata production

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
    Date of Metadata Production

    2024-06-09

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 2
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