Abstract

Newly available digital resources from the British census identify employers and their workforce size. However, there was a non-response rate of about 2.3% for smaller firms, rising to over 10% for firms over about 300 employees, and higher for the largest manufacturing firms. Non-responses are largely random except for different forms of business organization: significantly higher for corporates, and lower for unincorporated enterprises, but with no significant differences between partnerships and sole proprietors. Proprietor age is also significant. Non-response derives from defective census design and administration. Transcription truncations are also evaluated, which are higher for the largest firms, and vary by sector and position in the response string. Guidance to researchers on weighting and robust estimation strategies are presented for dealing with these limitations.

摘要

来自英国人口普查的新可用数字资源确定了雇主及其劳动力规模。然而，小型公司的不答复率约为 2.3%，员工人数超过 300 人的公司的不答复率上升到 10% 以上，而最大的制造公司则更高。除了不同的商业组织形式外，不答复在很大程度上是随机的：公司明显较高，非法人企业较低，但合伙企业和独资经营者之间没有显着差异。业主年龄也很重要。不答复源于有缺陷的普查设计和管理。还评估了转录截断，最大公司的截断值更高，并且因部门和响应字符串中的位置而异。