The Characteristics of Business Owners (CBO) Survey provides basic economic, demographic, and sociological data on the characteristics of minority, women, and nonminority male business owners and their business activities. Each sole proprietor selected from the CBO sample was mailed a Form CBO-1. This report asked the owner and business characteristics of a sole proprietor or self-employed person. Each partnership or subchapter S corporation selected in the CBO sample was mailed a Form CBO-2. This report asked the business characteristics of a partnership or subchapter S corporation. Based on the number of business owners stated in its SMOBE/WOB survey response, up to ten CBO-3 questionnaires were included with each CBO-2 form mailed. Form CBO-3 asks the owner characteristics of a partner or shareholder. It was respectively the responsibility of each partnership or subchapter S corporation to distribute the CBO-3 questionnaires to its 1992 partners or shareholders.

1992 CBO-1 Form [<1.0 MB]

1992 CBO-2 Form [<1.0 MB]

1992 CBO-3 Form [<1.0 MB]

The Survey of Minority-Owned Business Enterprises (SMOBE) provides basic economic data on businesses owned by Blacks, persons of Hispanic or Latin American ancestry, and persons of Asian, Pacific Islander, American Indian, or Alaska Native descent. The sample consists of all nonfarm businesses filing tax forms as sole proprietorships, partnerships, or subchapter S corporations (corporations other than subchapter S were excluded), and with receipts of $500 or more in 1992. Individual proprietorships or self-employed businesses were mailied the MB-1 questionnair. Limited parnerships, a partnership composed of at least one general partner and one or more limited partners, recieved the MB-2. Subchapter S corporations in the sample were mailed the MB-3.

1992 MB-1 Form [<1.0 MB]

1992 MB-2 Form [<1.0 MB]

1992 MB-3 Form [<1.0 MB]

1992 WB-1 Form [<1.0 MB]