getFirmCount: Get the firm count data from the County Business Patterns...

In jtilly/cbpR: Working with Census County Business Patterns Data

Description

This function processes the downloaded CPB data and generates a long panel data set. The data frame contains the following columns

• fips the fips code

• fipsstate the state fips code

• fipscty the county fips code within the state

• year the year of observation

• est the number of establishments

• n1_4 the number of establishments with between 1 and 4 employees

• n5_9 the number of establishments with between 5 and 9 employees

• n10_19 ... with between 10 and 19 employees

• n20_49 ... with between 20 and 49 employees

• n50_99... with between 50 and 99 employees

• n100_249 ... with between 100 and 249 employees

• n250_499 ... with between 250 and 499 employees

• n500_999 ... with between 500 and 999 employees

• n1000plus ... with between more than 1000 employees

Usage

getFirmCount(naics, years = c("09", "08", "07", "06", "05", "04", "03", "02",
  "01", "00"))

Arguments

naics	a string with the naics code of the industry
years	a vector of strings with the last two digits of years for which to process the data

Value

a data frame of a long panel with the CPB data on the county level

jtilly/cbpR documentation built on May 20, 2019, 3:13 a.m.