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U.S. Census Bureau


Why It's Trending: The 2010 Census is proving to be a helpful bit of economic stimulus, leading to the creation of more than 100,000 jobs for census workers.

Should You Consider Franchising?

A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows one in ten businesses is a franchise.

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Recent Articles about U.S. Census Bureau

Minority- and Women-Owned Businesses Skyrocket

New Census data shows significantly higher startup rates among such groups.  Read more

Most Small Businesses Start Without Outside Capital

New Census reports reveal how the nation's businesses are funded, where they are based, and other demographics.  Read more

Census Bureau to Update Employment Data

Nov. 8, 2006 -- The Census Bureau will interview some 70,000 households across the nation during the week of Nov. 12 for the Current Popu...  Read more

Q: Where are the Women? A: Nevada and L.A.

The number of women-owned businesses grew by 20% between 1997 and 2002 according to a Read more

Women Managing Women

The latest Census Bureau statistics reveal that women owned businesses are hotter than ever. Between 1997 and 2002 women started businesses at twice the n...  Read more

The Soloists

How many one-person businesses are there -- and what do they actually do?  Read more

Planning for Customers by the Numbers

As an essential first step to writing a business plan, you should have a good idea of how many potential customers there are. Most business plans c...  Read more

Women-owned Companies

A new report from the U.S. Bureau of the Census makes official that more and more American businesses are owned by women. Based on 1982 federal tax retur...  Read more

How To Know Your Customers Better

Demographics sounds expensive and frightening, but it's a useful tool even for small companies.  Read more

Business Failure and Dissolution

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Census Data

The U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 2) mandates that a census ("enumeration") of the population be conducted at 10-year intervals. The first census ...  Read more

Discretionary Income

Discretionary income is a widely used but imprecise definition of that portion of personal income not spent on actual or perceived necessities. Thus discr...  Read more

Mail-Order Business

A mail-order business is one that receives and fulfills orders for merchandise through the mail. The terms "mail-order," "direct mail," and "direct market...  Read more

Minority-Owned Businesses

Minority-owned businesses are on the rise. Over the past twenty years the United States has seen steady growth in the number of businesses owned by minori...  Read more

Service Businesses

INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION Industries are broadly classified as goods-producing and services-producing, but in the gradual evolution of industrial...  Read more

Entrepreneurial Ventures Surge, Says Census Data

June 21, 2004 -- During the economic boom of the late 1990s and even through the ensuing bust, millions of Americans formed their own bus...  Read more

Census Bureau Introduces New Economic Indicator

Sept. 14, 2004 --A new economic indicator released Monday showed that overall services revenue in the U.S. increased 5.4% in the second qu...  Read more

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Counting Companies

How many small businesses are there? Just a few more than there are ways to count them.  Read more

Hispanic Businesses on Growth Path

June 7, 2004 -- Six years from now, Hispanic-owned businesses will earn an estimated $465 billion and number 3.2 million, according to a n...  Read more

Employee Retention

Employees leave a company to get a better job—and for other reasons. It has cost the business money to hire and to train them; over time they have b...  Read more

Entrepreneurial Couples

If farming is considered a business, and all farms have a definite business aspect, then the reality of couples working together in a business goes back t...  Read more

Multicultural Work Force

A multicultural work force is one made up of men and women from a variety of different cultural and racial backgrounds. The labor force of any country is ...  Read more

Where To Start

Access to computerized information doesn't have to cost a lot. Government agencies, trade associations, and even your own suppliers can be inexpensive so...  Read more

Number of Small Businesses Reaches All-Time High

A new SBA report counts six million small firms with employees and close to 20 million sole proprietorships.  Read more

The Silent Majority

Statistics show a low turnout of business workers at the polls.  Read more

Make Your Business Count

Make your business count! And have your business be counted. It's time for the Economic Census of the United States. Every five years, the US Censu...  Read more

Global Business

Related Terms: Globalization Global business refer...  Read more

Market Research

Related Terms: Focus Groups If the "market" is viewe...  Read more

Uncle Sam Doesn't Know Much About You

Unless small businesspeople demand that the U.S. collect better information, nobody will know how important they are.  Read more

Resources: Click Here for Business Help

The URLs for three data-packed Web sites.  Read more

Business-to-Consumer

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Small Business

Most people get their definition of "small business" from personal experience in dealing with small retail stores and service organizations. Most people a...  Read more

Free Software

Company sells list of software programs available free from the government.  Read more

Getting the Dirt on Your Market

New location? Get market information, including population density, demographics, and the number and type of local businesses.  Read more

Employee Compensation

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Retail Trade

Related Terms: Dot-coms Retailers are business firms engaged...  Read more

How to Profit from Market Research

Knowing what your customers want and how they want it is essential to any business. Here's how to gather information through market research.  Read more

Manufacturers Go Online to Boost Business

Jan. 31, 2005 --After wrapping up a healthy year, America's manufacturing sector is looking toward the Internet to keep the party going in...  Read more