What is the Survey of Business Owners?"
Every five years the U.S. Census Bureau conducts a nation-wide “Survey of Business Owners" (formerly referred to as surveys of minority- and women-owned business enterprises). This survey is conducted in conjunction with the economic census, and obtains information about: race, gender and other owner characteristics; business acquisition; and financing methods.
The last Survey of Business Owners for which information has been published by the U.S. Census Bureau was completed in 2002, with findings reported in 2006. The following articles contain information extracted from this survey:
- Statistics on Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander Women-Owned Businesses: A comparison of the types of businesses owned by Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander women as compared to the types of businesses owned by Native Hawaiian & Other Pacific Islander males.
- Statistics on American Indian and Alaska Native Women-Owned Businesses: A comparison of the types of businesses owned by American Indian and Alaska Native women as compared to the types of businesses owned by American Indian and Alaska Native males.
- Statistics on Asian Women-Owned Businesses: A comparison of the types of businesses owned by Asian women as compared to the types of businesses owned by Asian males.
- Statistics on Black Women-Owned Businesses: A comparison of the types of businesses owned by black women as compared to the types of businesses owned by black males.
- Statistics on Hispanic Women-Owned Businesses: A comparison of the types of businesses owned by Hispanic women as compared to the types of businesses owned by Hispanic males.
- Statistics on Caucasian Women-Owned Businesses: A comparison of the types of businesses owned by Caucasian women as compared to the types of businesses owned by Caucasian males.
- Summary of Minority-Owned Business Survival Rates: 50.4% of all businesses that reported positive payrolls in the 1992 Survey of Business Owners conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, were still in business four years later (in 1996).
- Summary of the 1997 Census Bureau Statistics on Minority-Owned Businesses: Summary of the 1997 U.S. Census Bureau business statistics for minority-owned businesses.
