Year Incorporated

Description:
The year a business was incorporated.

Child attributes (and data file structure):

Column Name	Data Type	Description	Example
year_incorporated	string	The year the business was incorporated.	2011

JSON Sample:

JSON

"year_incorporated": "2011"

Coverage:

• Business: 55%
• Business Locations: 49%

Time structure:

• Current point in time. No historical information.

Data sources:

• Secretary of State corporate registration filings

Methodology:

• We define the incorporation date of the business as the earliest year in which a corporate registration was filed.
• For businesses, we take the earliest year incorporated across all information associated with the business.