April 2007– Minorities in Business: A Demographic Review of Minority Business Ownership [PDF file],– is a report on statistical information about minority-owned businesses such as the number of businesses, types of businesses, business turnover, income, industry, procurement, and financing, Research Summary. [PDF file]

December 2005 – Minority Entrepreneurship [PDF file], submitted by Robert W. Fairlie; University of California; Santa Cruz with a review by Ying Lowrey

September 2005 - Preliminarily information on women and minorities in business, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, are available now on the census 2002 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) website. The explanation of the data can be found at http://www.census.gov/csd/sbo/intro2002SBO.htm. The census’ interactive data is sorted by industrial sectors and sorted by state.The SBO provides data on the number of firms, sales and receipts, employment, and annual payroll for kind of business, by gender, Hispanic or Latino origin, and race. Download Tables (Self-Extracting Microsoft Excel File).

May 2005 - Research Study (PDF file), Availability of Financing to Small Firms Using the Survey of Small Business Finances, submitted by Karlyn Mitchell and Douglas K. Pearce, (Research Summary)

January 2005 Research Study [PDF file], Dynamics of Minority-Owned Employer Establishments, 1997-2001 – is an analysis of employer data from the Survey of Minority-Owned Business Establishments Research Summary.

December 2004 – Research Study [PDF file], Self-Employed Business Ownership Rates in the United States: 1979-2003, submitted by Robert W. Fairlie Research Summary.

January 2002 Research Study [PDF file], An Investigation of Venture Capital in Women-and Minority-led Firms, submitted by Dr. Candida G. Brush; Dr. Nancy Carter; Elizabeth Gatewood; Dr. Patricia G. Greene; and Myra M. Hart, Research Summary.

November 2001 Research Report [PDF file], Minorities in Business, – is a report on statistical information about minority-owned businesses such as the number of businesses, types of businesses, business turnover, income, industry, procurement, and financing.

March 2000 Research Study [PDF file], Analyses of Business Dissolution by Demographic Category of Business Ownership, submitted by Dr. Richard J. Boden, Jr. Research Summary.

September 2000 Research Study [PDF file], Analysis of Hispanic-Owned Companies, submitted by Cognetics, Research Summary.

November 1999 Research Report [PDF file], Minorities in Business  –  reports a report on statistical information about minority-owned businesses such as the number of businesses, types of businesses, business turnover, income, industry, procurement, and financing.

May 1999 Research Study [PDF file], Women and Minorities in Franchising and Financing Practices, submitted by Women in Franchising Inc., Research Summary.

January 1993 Research Study, Equity Capital Access by Small and Minority Business Enterprises, submitted by Applied Economics Group, Inc., Research Summary [HTML file].

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