| Table 6-25 |
| Firms and employment in U.S. small businesses versus all businesses: 2004 |
| |
| |
| Technology |
|
All businesses |
|
Small businesses |
|
Small business share (%) |
| |
| High-technology |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Firms (thousands) |
|
497 |
|
482 |
|
97.0 |
| Employment (millions) |
|
15.1 |
|
5.0 |
|
33.5 |
| All technologies |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Firms (thousands) |
|
5,886 |
|
5,869 |
|
99.7 |
| Employment (millions) |
|
115.1 |
|
58.6 |
|
50.9 |
| |
NOTES: Small businesses are firms with <500 employees. Firms include those reporting no employees on their payroll. Firm is an entity that is either a single location with no subsidiary or branches or topmost parent of a group of subsidiaries or branches. High-technology industries defined by Bureau of Labor Statistics on basis of employment intensity of technology-oriented occupations.
SOURCES: Census Bureau, Statistics of U.S. Businesses, http://www.census.gov/csd/susb/susb.htm; and Hecker DE. 2006. High-technology employment: A NAICS-based update. Monthly Labor Review 128(7):57–72, http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/07/art6full.pdf, accessed 19 September 2007. Science and Engineering Indicators 2008 |
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