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Abstract #304111

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Activity Number:	58
Type:	Topic Contributed
Date/Time:	Sunday, August 7, 2005 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
Sponsor:	Business and Economics Statistics Section
Abstract - #304111
Title:	An Automated Industry Coding Application for New U.S. Business Establishments
Author(s):	Anne T. Kearney*+ and Michael E. Kornbau
Companies:	U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
Address:	15710 Peach Walker Drive, Bowie, MD, 20716-1650, United States
Keywords:	business establishments ; automated industry coding ; NAICS ; coding rates
Abstract:	The U.S. Census Bureau's Economic Directorate receives NAICS industry codes for businesses at the EIN and establishment-level from various administrative records and survey sources. Several years ago, the U.S. Census Bureau started receiving electronic name and description for business births, along with a clerically-assigned NAICS code for each new business. This provided a wealth of information to assist in designing an automated industry coding application using common name-description-NAICS patterns. This paper discusses how an automated industry coding application was developed with low initial cost, providing a reasonably high coding rate with comparable accuracy to the clerical coders. Our experiences in implementing the automated coding routine in production will be presented along with coding rates and comparability with clerical coding. We also will discuss reasons for autocoder deterioration and how we plan to handle it.

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