Allows researchers to create customized tables and models and to study entrepreneurial activity and the relationships between business characteristics such as access to capital, firm size, employer-paid benefits, minority- and women-ownership, and firm age. Includes national- and state-level data and detailed characteristics of businesses and their owners while protecting the confidentiality of survey respondents. Includes earlier back to 1992. For surveys prior to 1992, available in paper in the Trustees Reading Room under various call numbers (HD2346.U5 A17; HD2346.U5 S96; HD2346.U5 U48; HD2346.U5 U49). Dates back to 1969. 2007 included microdata. 2012 data can be derived in tables using American FactFinder or through a series of APIs. One must apply for a key to retrieve.Successor is the Annual Business Survey.
