Readme for NBER-CES data
Brendan Price
July 29, 2014

This folder contains industry-level data from the NBER-CES Manufacturing Productivity Database. To conserve space, we include only the cleaned file ("nberces_clean.dta") and omit the underlying source files "sic5809.dta" and "naics5809.dta". The source data were downloaded from http://www.nber.org/nberces.

Documentation is available at
- http://www.nber.org/papers/t0205.pdf
- http://www.nber.org/nberces/nberces5809/nberces_5809_technical_notes.pdf

We provide these files solely for the purpose of facilitating replication of the present paper. If you wish to use the NBER-CES data in your own research, please download fresh extracts from the NBER website to ensure that you have the latest version of the data.