1997 Surveys of Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises

American Indian/Alaska Native

The 1997 American Indians and Alaska Natives 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.

Minority ownership of a business was based on the
race of the person(s) owning majority interest in the
business. Businesses in which ownership was shared
among minority and nonminority groups, with no single
racial/ethnic group having majority interest, were tabulated
as 50-percent minority-/50-percent nonminority-owned
and were excluded from the minority business counts.

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.