Data and programs:
"Small Business Heterogeneity"
Erik Hurst and Ben Pugsley
September 2011

Directory contents:
  *datasets* (instructions for downloading the raw data within these do files)
    sbh-bds.dta : created from downloaded BDS data using read_bds.do
    sbh-kauffman.dta : created from downloaded KFS5 using read_kfs.do
    sbh-psed.dta : created from downloaded PSED using psed_read.do
    sbh-ssbf.dta : created from downloaded SSBF using ssbf_read.do
    sbh-susb-dyn.dta : created from downloaded panel SUSB data (see note)
    sbh-susb-static07.dta : created from downloaded SUSB data (see note)

  *susb note*
    to build the SUSB datasets, the following do files must be run (in order)
    susb1_cleanstatic.do
    susb2_cdfs.do
    susb3_readdyn.do (optional)
    susb4_cleandyn.do

    the SUSB data are assembled from ascii/xls downloads from the Census 
    website instructions for the files to download are documented within 
    the above do files. "susb_readdyn.do" prompts for table data from the xls
    spreadsheets to be pasted into an edit window: it creates the datasets
    within the susb_raw folder.
        
  *tables and figures*
    table01-table10b.do : individual stata do files for each table
    figure1-figure3.do : individual stata do files for each figure
    appendix_tableA1.xls : spreadsheet with census non employer data
    appendix_tableA2.txt : page numbers for A2 in the PSED codebook


  
