U.S. Entrepreneurial Quantity and Quality Estimates, 1988-2014

American entrepreneurship data combines business registries and predictive analytics to estimate the quantity and initial quality of new ventures from 1988 to 2014. The dataset, created by Jorge Guzman of Columbia University, presents quality-adjusted measures that follow a cyclical pattern. It highlights the role of economic and capital market conditions as drivers of entrepreneurial quality and scaling.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in business dynamism based on quality-adjusted entrepreneurial measures.
• Modeling the relationship between capital market conditions and high-growth entrepreneurship.
• Studying the cyclical patterns of new venture creation and scaling over time.

Strengths

• Covers a 27-year time series from 1988 to 2014.
• Integrates comprehensive business registries with predictive analytics.
• Provides estimates for both entrepreneurial quantity and initial quality.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Columbia University

Collection Method

Combined business registries and predictive analytics.

Time Range

1988-2014

Geography

United States