Answered By: Bobray Bordelon
Last Updated: Aug 02, 2023     Views: 177

Use the various Dun and Bradstreet statistical compilations.

ICPSR: Business Failures by Industry in the United States, 1895 to 1940: A Statistical History (ICPSR 34016) - Dun's published data on failures by branch of business from 1895 through 1935. This dataset reconstructs that series and links it to its successors. The successor series include data on business failures by division of industry, which Dun and Bradstreet's published from 1934 through 1940. The data consist of the aggregate number of corporations filing for bankruptcy in various industries each month in the United States and the total liabilities of those corporations.

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