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2002 SURVEY OF BUSINESS OWNERS (SBO)
The SBO is a consolidation of two prior surveys, the Surveys of Minority- and Women-Owned
Business Enterprises (SMOBE/SWOBE), and includes questions from a survey discontinued in
1992 on Characteristics of Business Owners (CBO).
Women-Owned Firms: 2002
Revised August 29, 2006. Revisions are annotated by an "r" in the tables.
Statistics for 150 Places with the Largest Number of Women-Owned Firms: 2002
[NOTE. Includes firms with paid employees and firms with no paid employees. The estimates are based on the 2002 Survey of Business Owners. Firms with more than one domestic establishment are counted in each geographic area in which they operate. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, geographic area coding, and definitions, see
Introductory Text. Revisions are not noted in this table.]