The Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs (ASE) supplements the 5-year Survey of Business Owners (SBO) program and provides more timely updates on the status, nature, and scope of women-, minority-, and veteran-owned businesses for three reference years (2014 – 2016).
Annual estimates are available on select economic and demographic characteristics of employer businesses and their owners by sector, sex, ethnicity, race, and veteran status for the nation, states, and the fifty most populous metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs).
Datasets include:
Read more information about the ASE at www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ase/about.html.
For a complete description of the ASE methodology, please visit www.census.gov/programs-surveys/ase/technical-documentation/methodology.html.
The 2015 ASE asked questions on selected economic and demographic characteristics for businesses and business owners by sex, ethnicity, race, and veteran status, and introduced a new module of questions covering business management practices, types of workers, tasks performed by workers, and record keeping practices.
For detailed information about the values available, please see “Technical Information for ASE API – Company Summary.”
For detailed information about the values available, please see “Technical Information for ASE API – Characteristics of Businesses.”
For detailed information about the values available, please see “Technical Information for ASE API – Characteristics of Business Owners.”