The Survey of Business Owners (SBO) provides the only comprehensive, regularly collected source of information on selected economic and demographic characteristics for businesses and business owners by gender, ethnicity, race, and veteran status.
News
STATS FOR STORIES | NOVEMBER 24, 2018
Small Business Saturday: November 24, 2018
The 2016 County Business Patterns series counted 7,757,807 establishments in the U.S. Most (6,627,392) had fewer than 20 employees and averaged about 4.5.
STATS FOR STORIES | NOVEMBER 2018
National Aviation History Month: November 2018
The 2015 Annual Survey of State and Local Finances found that 13 states account for 76% of the $22 billion in airport revenue dollars.
STATS FOR STORIES | OCTOBER 14, 2018
Minority Enterprise Development Week: October 14-20, 2018
The 2016 Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs found that 1.1M of 5.6M firms with paid employees are minority firms and employ 8.7M of the total 121.1M paid employees.
Publications
PUBLICATION | JANUARY 2002
Negocios de propiedad hispana: 1997
Este informe, basado en los datos de la Encuesta de Empresas Comerciales Minoritarias de 1997, presenta los resultados de las empresas propiedad de hispanos.
PUBLICATION | JANUARY 2002
Minority-Owned Businesses: 1997
This brief, based on 1997 Survey of Minority-Owned Business Enterprises data, presents findings on minority-owned businesses in the United States.
PUBLICATION | OCTOBER 2001
Hispanic-Owned Businesses: 1997
This brief, based on 1997 Survey of Minority-Owned Business Enterprises data, presents findings on Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States.
Data
TABLE | 2012
SBO - Company Summary: 2012 Tables
These Company Summary tables are from the 2012 Survey of Business Owners.
2012
SBO - Characteristics of Business Owners: 2012 Tables
These Characteristics of Business Owners tables are from the 2012 Survey of Business Owners.
2012
SBO - Characteristics of Businesses: 2012 Tables
These Characteristics of Businesses tables are from the 2012 Survey of Business Owners.
