"... Present[s] a harmonized data set over the period 1972-2000, containing two-yearly data on the number of non-agricultural business owners and the size of the labour force for 23 OECD countries, as well as the quotient of these two variables which is called the business ownership rate of a country. The data set is called COMPENDIA (version 2000.2), which means COMParative ENtrepreneurship Data for International Analysis."--P. 5.