Longitudinal Business Database research

The prototype Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) was created in December 2007, as a result of the two-year feasibility project, the Improved Business Understanding via Longitudinal Database Development (IBULDD).

The purpose of the IBULDD project was to test the feasibility of creating a longitudinal firm level database covering the time period 1999–2005/06. Official statistics cannot be produced from IBULDD as it is still subject to change. The project was funded by Cross Departmental Research Pool (CDRP) money and finished in December 2007 with the successful creation of the Longitudinal Business Database.

Research reports using Longitudinal Business Database

2010

Business Participation in Government Assistance Programmes
Descriptive statistics on the businesses that participate in different types of government assistance programmes.

NZTE Output Class 1 Evaluation (MED Evaluation, August 2009)
An evaluation of the effectiveness of the suite of training and advisory programmes provided by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise.

Impact of emissions pricing on New Zealand manufacturing: A short-run analysis (MED Occasional Paper, 10/02 2009)

2009 

Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED) Conference 2009:

Papers presented at this conference included:

  • Export Market Choice for New Zealand Firms
  • The "Suite" Smell of Success: Complementary Personnel Practices and Firm Performance 

Multi-Product Exporters and Product Turnover Behaviour Of New Zealand Exporters (Treasury Working Paper, April 2009) 

New Zealand Association of Economists (NZAE) Conference 2009:

Papers presented at this conference included:

  • Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment in New Zealand: Firm Level Evidence
  • Exporting and performance: The impact of destination characteristics on learning effects
  • The evolution of export unit values: Some stylised facts
  • Entrepreneurship and Aggregate Merchandise Trade Growth In New Zealand
  • Job Mobility and Wage Dynamics
  • Agglomeration Elasticities in New Zealand
  • The Need for Speed: Impacts of Internet Connectivity on Firm Productivity
  • Competition in New Zealand: An analysis Using Micro Data 

2008

Developing the prototype Longitudinal Business Database
Two conference papers about how Statistics New Zealand developed the prototype Longitudinal Business Database.

Labour Productivity in Auckland Firms (MED Occasional Paper, August 2008)

Over the hedge? Exporters' optimal and selective hedging choices (RBNZ Discussion Paper DP2008/14, October 2008). Available from Reserve Bank website, Recent Reserve Bank discussion papers .

2007

Potential Outputs from the Longitudinal Business Database
Examples of outputs and indicators that can be produced from the database. 

Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators in a Changing World, OECD, 2007
See in particular chapter 9, How innovative are New Zealand firms?

The performance of NZ exporters: Some firm-level evidence
Presentation by Richard Fabling, Reserve Bank of New Zealand, to Motu Public Policy Seminar. 

The following four papers were presented at the New Zealand Association of Economists (NZAE) Conference 2007 and subsequently updated and released as MED Occasional papers: 

2006

IBULDD Project Peer Group Review: Findings and recommendations
Findings and recommendations of the first peer group review of the Statistics New Zealand Improved Business Understanding via Longitudinal Database Development (IBULDD). 

2005

Improved business understanding via longitudinal database development
Overview of the project previously known as Longitudinal Research of Business Dynamics, linking business-related data from administrative and sample survey data.