Abstract
Research at Statistics Canada has made extensive use of longitudinal data bases to study business demography. This paper describes the way in which the data required for these exercises have been created from Statistics Canada's Business Register. It recounts the problems that researchers faced when using the Business Register and the lessons learned. It then describes the manner in which the traditional problems of creating longitudinal identifiers was solved with the creative use of data that involved a labour-tracking exercise.
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