MinorityOwned Business WomenOwned Business

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Minority-Owned BusinessWomen-Owned Business

• Women
• Black
• Hispanic
• American Indians and Alaska Natives
• Asians and Pacific Islanders
• Minority Summary
• Company Summary

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Map Black-Owned
Black-Owned Firms as a Percent of Total Firms in
State 1997
Percent of Total
10
.0
and greater
(3)
5
.0
to
9
.9
(7)
1
.0
to
4
.9
(28)
0.0
to
0
.9
(13)
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Map Hispanic-Owned
Hispanic-Owned Firms as a Percent of Total Firms
in State 1997
Percent of Total
Greater than 10.0
(4)
5
.0
to
9
.9
(5)
1
.0
to
4
.9
(28)
0.0
to
0
.9
(14)
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Improvements for 1997

• Inclusion of all corporations
• Improved sample design
• Ownership based on 51
• Separate publication for American
• Indian and Alaska Natives
• Publication of subgroups within
• Asian and Pacific Islander

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Regular C Corporations covered for the first
time
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Growth 1992 to 1997--excluding C Corps
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Gender

• Male
• Female
• Equally male and female
• Other (includes publicly held,
• foreign-owned, and not-for-
• profit businesses)

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Ownership data exclude publicly held, foreign
owned, or nonprofit
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Improvements for 1997

• Inclusion of all corporations
• Improved sample design
• Ownership based on 51

These affect 1992 to 1997 comparability. Compariso
ns shown only at national level in Summary of
Findings.
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Comparability with other Economic Census data

• Survey includes nonemployers
• Classification by SIC vs NAICS
• Survey covers more industries
• Firms vs establishments

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Inclusion of Nonemployers

• All Firms includes employers and nonemployers

• Most census figures limited to Firms with paid
  employees

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Comparability with other Economic Census data

• Survey includes nonemployers
• Classification by SIC vs NAICS
• Survey covers more industries
• Firms vs establishments

So make comparisons to All U.S. Firms tables in
SMOBE/SWOBE, not to census.
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Sampling Variability
Example Services receipts 60000 (1,000), RSE
25 Standard error (s.e.) is 25 of 60000
15000 68 confidence interval is 45000 to
75000 90 confidence interval is 36000 to 84000
( or - 1.6 se)
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Geography for SMOBE/SWOBE

• U.S.
• States
• MSA's
• Counties
• Places of 2,500 Inhabitants

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SIC DetailU.S States--2 digitsMSAs--divisions
Counties places--none
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Whats New for 2002

• New name Survey of Business Owners
• Race counts will include multi-race
• New owner characteristics
• age, education, hours worked, disability
• New business characteristics
• home-based, family-owned, franchising, year
  started, financing

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