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Author: Katz, Jerome A.
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1. Katz, Jerome A.
Secondary Analysis in Entrepreneurship: An Introduction to Databases and Data Management
Journal of Small Business Management 30,2 (April 1992): 74-86
Cohort(s): NLS General
Publisher: International Council For Small Business (ICSB)
Keyword(s): Behavior; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale); Longitudinal Data Sets; Longitudinal Surveys; Mobility; Self-Esteem

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"Low-barrier-to-entry (LBE) research" is a term derived from Northwestern University's Denise Rousseau's efforts (1987) to describe research methods that rely on inexpensive or free-to-the-researcher techniques. Examples of LBE approaches for entrepreneurship research have been outlined before (Katz 1989); but more details on LBE methods are commonly needed because many of the approaches are not easy to use. This article focuses on one of the most daunting of these approaches: secondary analysis. This article discusses the process of secondary analysis, paying particular attention to databases that are potentially useful for the individual-level analysis of entrepreneurship issues. Evaluation covers NORC, ICPSR, commercial sources including LINK and BisCAP, and major database vendors such as Dun and Bradstreet or TriNet, and major database distributors such as DIALOG and BRS, NLS--the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience, 1966-1986. The youth survey (NLSY) has been followed annually since 1979. The data here is extraordinarily rich, with extremely complete work histories, personal histories including school performance), and environmental characteristic lists. (The Panel Study of Income Dynamics is a distant second in this area.) The exact list contains the following categories: employment, education, training, work experience, income sources, marital status, health, attitudes towards work, occupational, and geographic mobility. Like the PSID described below, there is also a year-specific set of additional questions. The NLSY includes all of the above, as well as detailed transcripts, results of pyschological (locus of control, self-esteem) and academic tests, information on criminal activity, and a tremendous range of other behaviors. The data set is extraordinarily complex, and quite enormous, although it is subsetted so that topical surveys for specific subgroups are easier to load.
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Katz, Jerome A. "Secondary Analysis in Entrepreneurship: An Introduction to Databases and Data Management." Journal of Small Business Management 30,2 (April 1992): 74-86.