BUSOWN is the concordance that links a person to the business they operate, published split by legal form. Businesses are drawn first and their owners second: a sole trader has one owner, a partnership has two or more, drawn from a household because spousal and family partnerships are the common Australian form. Each business trades over a spell of financial years rather than existing in every year of the window.
Usage
generate_busown(
spine = NULL,
seed = 42L,
years = 2010L:2023L,
output_dir = NULL,
format = c("parquet", "csv"),
return_data = FALSE
)Details
The generator runs centrally on the full spine rather than per slice. Slices are contiguous row ranges and households are scattered across them, so a sliced build would split most multi-person households and lose their partnerships.
Which identifier names the business
The tables delivered up to 2021-22 name the business in ABN_HASH_TRUNC
and the tables from 2021-22 on name it in BN. Which one a table carries
comes from the bundled data item list, not from the financial year: 2021-22
is mixed, with ABN_HASH_TRUNC on the 12-month extracts and BN on the
16-month re-extracts. The two are different hashings of the same ABN and
never share a value, so joining across the change needs the
blade-key-abn-hash-trunc-to-bn-key product in abs-blade.
ABN_HASH_TRUNC and SYNTHETIC_AEUID are both 12 hexadecimal characters
and look alike. They are never joined to one another: the first names a
business and the second names a person.
Dataset and variable information
The ABS PLIDA Modular Product
website gives information about this dataset. Use dataset_info("BUSOWN")
for dataset information. Use variable_info("BUSOWN") for variables,
sources, value support, and topic tags.