Business FAQ
Small Businesses in the United States
- Annual Business Survey (ABS)The Annual Business Survey (ABS) from the U.S. Census Bureau provides information on selected economic and demographic characteristics for businesses and business owners by sex, ethnicity, race, and veteran status.
- Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS)BDS from the U.S. Census Bureau provides annual measures of business dynamics (such as job creation and destruction, establishment births and deaths, and firm startups and shutdowns) for the economy and aggregated by establishment and firm characteristics.
- Census Business Builder: Small Business EditionTool providing small business owners with key statistics for their business plan or to better understand their potential market. Presents statistics for a single type of business at a time.
- YourEconomy.orgDatabase originally created from National Establishment Time Series data, now using Your-economy (YE) Time Series data. YE is an annual establishment-level time-series online research tool that tracks all establishments and their jobs, including for-profit (both privately-owned and publicly-traded), non-profits, and government, from 2004.
- National Small Business Association Surveys and ResearchIncludes "biannual Economic Reports which provide trending data on how small business is faring, a host of targeted surveys on items ranging from taxation to exporting" and weekly polls.
- Panel Study of Entrepreneurial DynamicsUniversity of Michigan research program designed to enhance the scientific understanding of how people start businesses.
International Small Businesses
- GlobalEDGECreated by the International Business Center and the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University and funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education Title VI B grant, globalEDGE provides tools and resources to efficiently research international business questions.
- Global Entrepreneurship MonitorAn annual assessment of the entrepreneurial activity, aspirations and attitudes of individuals across a wide range of countries.
- World Bank Enterprise SurveysCompany level data from emerging markets and developing economies.
Federal Reserve Banks
- Federal Reserve Regional BanksEach of the 12 Federal Reserve Districts is represented by a Regional Reserve Bank. Click through to the bank for a district to access specialized regional data useful for economic, financial, and market research.
