Longitudinal Business Database

Owned by Philip Stevens
Last updated: Aug 25, 2022
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The Longitudinal Business Database (or LBD) is our core resource for understanding the behaviour and performance of New Zealand firms. It is a collection of administrative and survey data, brought together by Stats NZ in the DataLab.

Find out More

The official Stats NZ page for the LBD can be found here: Longitudinal Business Database | Stats NZ

A great place to start is the second edition of A Rough Guide to New Zealand’s Longitudinal Business Database, by Richard Fabling and Lynda Sanderson

http://motu-www.motu.org.nz/wpapers/16_03.pdf

Using this site

  • If you have never used the LBD before, then your best place to start is probably Introduction to the LBD

  • For more details on the constituent datasets of the LBD, including official documentation and copies of the forms used to collect the data, go to Underlying Datasets

  • Learn what can be done and what has been done using the LBD, including journal articles, working papers and the like by going to Research using the LBD

  • When you are ready to start crunching those numbers, you might find From data to analysis helpful.

  • If you have any questions or suggestions, please use the comment sections at the bottom of pages. Please respect other users of the site. This is not a discussion board. If you are not sure how to conduct yourself, check out GEN’s Code of Conduct.

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