RELATED SURVEY: Characteristics of Business Owners is available.
SMALL BUSINESS DATA OVERVIEW: See a comparison of company and business data sets created at the Census Bureau.
Publications: The Survey of Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises publications may be viewed and/or downloaded. Software which will view .PDF files (such as Adobe, see www.adobe.com) is required. See below for selected quick view data text files.
CD-ROM: CD-ROM_1i contains Hispanic, and remaining minority-owned and summary (incl. gender) data. CD-ROM_1i is cumulative and contains all data from CD-ROM_1h which contained Women, Black and All firms data. These CD`s are part of the 1992 Economic Censuses CD-ROM series.
Documentation. Note the following components: "General", "Survey Methodology", and "Estimates." Summaries and CD-ROM documentation is also included.
Area Profiles
(link only)
This university sponsored site highlights data from the Census Bureau`s Economic CD-ROM.
Data for single area requests (this and other programs)--as well as general economic
data--may be quickly accessed. Be sure to select report, "Minority- and Women-Owned Business --
Area Totals."
ALL FIRMS (BUSINESSES) IN THE U.S.
[This survey "universe" includes all businesses (minority- and nonminority,
women-, and male-owned) with the exception of all "C" corporations.
For more information on this component, see
Legal form of Organization and "C" Corporations.
.TXT files:
State
Industry
Metro Area (MSA)
.PDF (portable document format) files:
Industry, State, Legal form of organization, and Receipts and Employment Size
State by Industry Division
Metro Area by Industry Division
County
Places
For electronic data, see the 1992 Economic Censuses CD-ROM.
Summary--Total Minority-Owned Business Enterprises by
Gender
P.R.(Nov `96)
All Firms Comparison
Data by State
Data by Industry
Gender
Asian- and Pacific Islander-, American Indian- & Alaska Native-Owned
(API/AIAN) Business Enterprises
P.R.(Aug `96)
Black-Owned Business Enterprises
P.R.(Feb `96)
All Firms Comparison
Data by State
Data by Industry
Hispanic-Owned Business Enterprises
P.R.(Jul `96)
All Firms Comparison
Data by State
Data by Industry
Women-Owned Businesses
P.R.(Jan `96)
All Firms Comparison
Data by State
Data by Industry
RELATED SURVEY: 1994 Survey of Employer Businesses
by Gender Ownership