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data product description<br />

Commodity Flow<br />

Survey<br />

Foreign Trade—<br />

Import Transactions<br />

Foreign Trade—<br />

Export Transactions<br />

Foreign Trade—<br />

Exporter Database<br />

Longitudinal<br />

Business Database<br />

Linked/<br />

Longitudinal Firm<br />

Trade Transactions<br />

Database<br />

The Commodity Flow Survey (CFS) is the primary source of data<br />

on domestic freight shipments by U.S. establishments in mining,<br />

manufacturing, wholesale, auxiliaries, <strong>and</strong> selected retail industries.<br />

It is a shipper-based survey <strong>and</strong> is conducted every 5 years as part<br />

of the <strong>Census</strong> <strong>Bureau</strong>’s Economic <strong>Census</strong> program. It provides a<br />

modal picture of national freight flows, <strong>and</strong> represents the only<br />

publicly available source of commodity flow data for the highway<br />

mode.<br />

This database covers the universe of firms operating in the United<br />

States that engage in merch<strong>and</strong>ise import from a foreign destination.<br />

Information is compiled from automated data submitted through<br />

the U.S. Customs’ Automated Commercial System. Data are also<br />

compiled from import entry summary forms, warehouse withdrawal<br />

forms, <strong>and</strong> Foreign Trade Zone documents as required by law to be<br />

filed with the U.S. Customs <strong>and</strong> Border Protection. Data on imports<br />

of electricity <strong>and</strong> natural gas from Canada are obtained from<br />

Canadian sources.<br />

This database contains transactions level data on the exports of<br />

the universe of firms operating in the United States that engage in<br />

merch<strong>and</strong>ise export to a foreign destination. Information is compiled<br />

from copies of the Shipper’s Export Declaration (SED) forms. For<br />

U.S. exports to Canada, the United States uses Canadian import<br />

statistics. Exports measure the total physical movement of<br />

merch<strong>and</strong>ise out of the United States to foreign countries whether<br />

such merch<strong>and</strong>ise is exported from within the U.S. Customs territory<br />

or from a U.S. Customs bonded warehouse or a U.S. Foreign Trade<br />

Zone.<br />

The Exporter Database is a set of files used to create the Profile of<br />

U.S. Exporting Companies. The files are created by matching yearly<br />

export transaction records to the company information from the<br />

Business Register.<br />

The LBD is a research dataset constructed at the Center for Economic<br />

Studies. Currently, the LBD contains the universe of all U.S. business<br />

establishments with paid employees from 1976 to 2009. The LBD is<br />

invaluable to researchers examining entry <strong>and</strong> exit, gross job flows,<br />

<strong>and</strong> changes in the structure of the U.S. economy. The LBD can be<br />

used alone or in conjunction with other <strong>Census</strong> <strong>Bureau</strong> surveys at<br />

the establishment <strong>and</strong> firm level of microdata.<br />

The Linked/Longitudinal Firm Trade Transactions Database (LFTTD)<br />

links individual trade transactions to firms in the United States. This<br />

data has two components: (1) transaction-level export data (Foreign<br />

Trade—Export) linked to information on firms operating in the United<br />

States; (2) transaction-level import data (Foreign Trade—Import)<br />

linked to information on firms operating in the United States. The<br />

firm identifiers on the LFTTD can be used to link trade transactions<br />

by firms to many other <strong>Census</strong> data products (LBD, Economic<br />

<strong>Census</strong>es, surveys, etc.).<br />

new or<br />

updated<br />

years<br />

U.S. <strong>Census</strong> <strong>Bureau</strong> Research at the Center for Economic Studies <strong>and</strong> the Research Data Centers: <strong>2010</strong>–<strong>2011</strong> 75<br />

2007<br />

2008–<strong>2010</strong><br />

2008–<strong>2010</strong><br />

2007–2009<br />

2006–2009<br />

1992–2009

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