1997 Surveys of Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises

Women

The 1997 Women-Owned Businesses report provides data on
both the number of employer and nonemployer firms,
sales and receipts, annual payroll, and employment. Data
aggregates are presented for the United States by two-
digit Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code, industry
division by state, employment and receipts size, and legal
form of organization.

The data in this report were compiled by combining
data collected on business owners in the 1997 Economic
Census Surveys of Minority- and Women-Owned Business
Enterprises with data collected on the main economic census
and administrative records. Included are all nonfarm
businesses filing 1997 tax forms as individual proprietorships,
partnerships, and any type of corporation, and with
receipts of $1,000 or more.

Women ownership of a business was based on the
gender of the person(s) owning majority interest in
the business. Firms equally male-/female-owned
were counted and tabulated as a separate category.
The gender of sole proprietors and self-employed persons
who were ‘‘single filers’’ was taken directly from
administrative record data.

Businesses with publicly held stock whose ownership
was indeterminate relative to gender, race, or ethnicity,
and nonprofit, foreign-owned, and mutual companies were
tabulated separately and published in the ‘‘other’’ category
of the Company Summary Publication.

Publication 1992||1997
Press Release
Census Brief
PowerPoint 97

Html tables
  U.S. by 2-Digit SIC
  State by 2-Digit SIC
  MSA by Industry Division
County (Note: Must first select a state)
Place (Note: Must first select a state)

PDF tables
State by 2-Digit SIC

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Source: U.S. Census Bureau. Maintained by: Melody Atkinson. | Phone Number: 301.763.3316 | Revised February 2004.