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There were 201,387 American Indian- and Alaska native-owned businesses in 2002 -- with receipts of $26.9 billion -- according to a new report, Survey of Business Owners: American Indian- and Alaska Native-Owned Firms: 2002 [PDF] released today by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, Calif., combined statistical area had the highest number of American Indian- and Alaska native-owned firms (20,380) and receipts (nearly $1.6 billion). Among counties, Los Angeles had the highest number of firms (13,061).
The information in the tabulations today excludes businesses owned by an American Indian tribal entity, which are considered to be government-owned entities and are therefore excluded from the estimates. Since this distinction was not made in the 1997 survey, prior data are not directly comparable.
Other highlights:
State | AIAN- owned firms (number) |
Percent of total AIAN- owned firms |
All firms (number) |
AIAN as a percent of all firms |
AIAN-owned firms’ receipts (million dollars) |
Percent of total AIAN-owned firms receipts |
All firms ‘receipts (million dollars) |
AIAN as a percent of all firms’ receipts |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
* Excludes tribal-owned entities | ||||||||
U.S. total | 201,387 | (X) | 22,974,685 | 0.9 | 26,873 | (X) | 22,627,167 | 0.1 |
California | 38,125 | 18.9 | 2,908,761 | 1.3 | 3,876 | 14.4 | 2,796,609 | 0.1 |
Oklahoma | 17,097 | 8.5 | 291,611 | 5.9 | 2,518 | 9.4 | 197,347 | 1.3 |
Texas | 16,204 | 8.0 | 1,734,517 | 0.9 | 3,138 | 11.7 | 1,812,465 | 0.2 |
New York | 11,158 | 5.5 | 1,707,172 | 0.7 | 710 | 2.6 | 1,737,979 | 0.0 |
Florida | 9,923 | 4.9 | 1,539,208 | 0.6 | 641 | 2.4 | 1,075,806 | 0.1 |
Combined statistical area | AIAN-owned firms | |
---|---|---|
Firms (number) |
Receipts (million dollars) |
|
* Excludes tribal-owned entities | ||
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, Calif. | 20,380 | 1,563 |
New York-Newark-Bridgeport, N.Y.-N.J.-Conn.-Pa. | 12,311 | 765 |
San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, Calif. | 6,549 | 965 |
County | AIAN-owned firms | State | AIAN-owned firms | Percent county to state | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Firms (number) |
Receipts (million dollars) |
Firms (number) |
Receipts (million dollars) |
Firms | Receipts | ||
* Excludes tribal-owned entities | |||||||
Los Angeles | 13,061 | 838 | Calif. | 38,125 | 3,876 | 34 | 22 |
City | AIAN-owned firms | State | AIAN-owned firms | Percent city to state | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Firms (number) |
Receipts (million dollars) |
Firms (number) |
Receipts (million dollars) |
Firms | Receipts | ||
* Excludes tribal-owned entities | |||||||
New York |
7,134 |
274 |
N.Y. |
11,158 |
710 |
64 |
39 |
Los Angeles | 5,767 | 284 | Calif. | 38,125 | 3,876 | 15 | 7 |
Gallup | 2,642 | 51 | N.M. | 6,826 | 455 | 39 | 11 |
The 2002 Survey of Business Owners (SBO) defines American Indian- and Alaska native-owned businesses as firms in which American Indians and Alaska natives own 51 percent or more of the stock or equity of the business. Data by gender of ownership by all race groups and people of Hispanic or Latino origin will be issued in August.
Later this year, information will be released for the first time in more than a decade on the characteristics of businesses and their owners. Information will be provided on home-based, family-owned and franchised businesses as well as information about sources of capital. For business owners, the Census Bureau will provide information about their age, hours worked, educational attainment and veteran status.
Data for 2002 are not directly comparable to previous survey years because of several significant changes to the survey methodology. See “Comparability of 2002 and 1997 SBO Data” at <http://www.census.gov/econ/sbo/methodology.html#comparability>.
The data collected in a sample survey are subject to sampling variability as well as nonsampling errors. Sources of nonsampling errors include errors of response, nonreporting and coverage.