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Kauffman Firm Survey

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Description

A panel dataset sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and conducted by Mathematica Policy Research that tracks U.S. businesses founded in 2004 and collects information on their founders, strategies, offerings, employment, finances, and organizational arrangements.

Components

  • Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) panel dataset of U.S. businesses founded in 2004: The Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) is a panel dataset on new U.S. businesses, sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and conducted by Mathematica Policy Research. The report states it is "a panel study of new businesses founded in 2004 and tracked over their early years of operation," and that it "collects data about the nature of new business formation activity; characteristics of the strategy, offerings, and employment patterns; the nature of the financial and organizational arrangements of these businesses; and the characteristics of their founders." It was created because only limited data existed on firms in their first years. (DesRoches et al. (2008))

Claims

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Key Sources

  • DesRoches, D., Barton, T., Ballou, J., Potter, F., Zhao, Z., Santos, B., & Sebastian, J. (2008). Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) Baseline Methodology Report. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/kauffman-firm-survey-kfs-baseline-methodology-report
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description A panel dataset sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and conducted by Mathematica Policy Research that tracks U.S.
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