• Synthesizes information on establishments'
  • Employment
  • Payroll
  • Birth and death years
  • Industrial classification
• Generated by
  • Fitting models on sensitive information in the collected data
  • Simulating replacement values from these models
  • Testing them for disclosure risk
• An experimental data product produced by the U.S. Census Bureau in collaboration with
  • Duke University
  • Cornell University
  • National Institute of Statistical Sciences
  • Internal Revenue Service
  • National Science Foundation

  Appendix: LBD Synthesis Procedures  (138 KB)