Imperial Russian Factory Database, 1894-1908

This database digitizes the 1894, 1900, and 1908 Imperial Russian manufacturing censuses. For each factory, the database includes industry, province, enterprise form, total workers, total revenue, and identifiers that allow factories to be matched over time. The 1894 and 1908 years also include information on the factory's total machine power. The dataset was constructed to study why some Russian firms chose to become corporations despite the Empire's expensive and time-consuming concession system. Note that the final analysis files exclude factories located outside of European Russia and, in the main data files, factories subject to the excise tax.