Research Guides: Entrepreneurship/Small Business: Find Data

Statistical Compendia

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Statistics and Studies from more than 18,000 Sources. Aggregates statistics and data sets from a variety of international free and proprietary sources, including industry and marketing. Data sets can be displayed in multiple graphical formats.

County Business Patterns
lso available at HC 101 .A184 (for 1964 - 1997).
Arranges by NAICS code data by county. The data for each industry include "number of employees, taxable payrolls, and number of establishments by employment size class." There are volumes for the separate states and a summary volume for the U.S. as a whole.
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Business Trends and Outlook Survey
This Bureau of the Census Survey "provides insight into the state of the economy by providing timely data for key economic measures and business expectations about future conditions. " Provides "detailed geographic and subsector data." Data is released biweekly..
Survey of Business Owners
Provides "information about characteristics of... businesses and their owners."

411SmallBusinessFacts.com
"411SmallBusinessFacts.com is a searchable data base of approximately 2,000 facts about American small businesses and their owners (or managers) produced by the NFIB Research Foundation."