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Census Business Builder (CBB)

Version 2.4
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Version 2.4

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Small Business Edition is built primarily for small business owners who need key data for their business plan or to better understand their potential market. It presents data for a single type of business and geography at a time.

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Regional Analyst Edition is built for chambers of commerce and regional planning staff who need a broad portrait of the people and businesses in their service area. It presents data for all sectors of the economy and for a user-defined region made up of one or more areas.

Key Features

  • Easy to use menus and Search tools to select the location you’d like to research and nearly all types of businesses
  • Interactive maps to browse and download data about the selected area and type of businesses
  • A customizable dashboard that includes time series and geographic comparison charts
  • Interactive and downloadable reports (including charts) that can be easily incorporated into your research
  • Optimized for your smartphone or tablet

What's New in Version 2.4

New and Expanded Content:

  • Revised business data (from the 2016 County Business Patterns and 2016 Nonemployer Statistics program.

New or Revised Features:

  • Ability to build regions in RAE by combinations of States, Counties, Cities/Towns, ZIP codes, and Tracts (Tracts is new).
  • Ability to build regions in RAE by combinations of geographic areas across types.

Known Issues that will be addressed in future releases:

  • Users may periodically see horizontal lines displayed on top of the map that appear and disappear based on zoom level.
  • When building a region of different types of geographic areas, CBB warns users when the boundaries of their region may overlap with the area the user is trying to add, but the user CAN accept the overlapping areas resulting in data duplication.
  • The time series charts in the Region reports don’t build for regions built of different geographic types due to mismatch in the vintage of the data.
  • "An "Error fetching data..." message intermittently appears in both editions, but the map and report builds correctly.

Flyers

View flyers that provide an Overview of the Small Business and Regional Analyst Editions of CBB.

Feedback

Please email us at census.cofb@census.gov with your feedback on the tool, including what you like about it as well as what changes you’d like to see in future versions.



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