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Smallbusiness.com Directory: Online resources for research regarding small business: (This is one of several Smallbusiness.com Directories, special pages with links to online resources for small business owners and employees.)

U.S. Government Data Sources (Recurring)

(Please limit additions to this section to online resources that contain recurring and continuous research studies related to U.S. small businesses conducted by agencies of the United States Goverment.)

• Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.
  • Business Employment Dynamics
  • Current Population Survey
• Census Bureau, U.S.
  • 1997 Economic Census
  • 2002 Economic Census (Survey of Business Owners)
  • American FactFinder
  • Nonemployer Statistics
  • Statistics of U.S. Businesses
  • County Business Patterns
  • Survey of Income and Program Participation
• Federal Reserve System, U.S.
  • Federal Reserve Bulletin
  • Survey of Small Business Finances
  • Survey of Consumer Finances
  • Senior Loan Officer Survey on Bank Lending Practices
• Internal Revenue Service, U.S.
  • Statistics of Income Division
• Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, U.S.
  • The Small Business Economy: A Report to the President
  • Quarterly Indicators: The Economy and Small Business
  • Small Firm Lending Studies
  • State and Territory Small Business Economic Profiles
  • Regulatory Research
  • Research on Owner Demographics (women, minorities, veterans, etc.)
  • Advocacy Working Paper Series
  • Chronological List of Other Advocacy Research Reports
  • Research Resource

Non-Government Data Sources (Recurring)

(Please limit additions to this section to online resources that contain recurring and continuous research studies related to U.S. small businesses conducted by organizations not associated with the United States Goverment.)

• National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)
  • Small Business Economic Trends
• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
  • Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity

Small Business Journals

(Please limit additions to this section to online resources that relate to recurring professional and academic journals related to U.S. small business trends and analysis.)

• Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
• International Small Business Journal
• Entrepreneurial Finance
• Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship
• Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures
• Journal of Business Venturing
• Journal of Small Business Management
• Small Business Economics

Small Business Research Organizations

(Please limit additions to this section to online resources that relate to organizations that conduct on-going research into trends and analyses related to small business.)

• Center for Women’s Business Research
• NFIB Research Foundation
• Ewing Marion Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research
• Kauffman-RAND Center for Study of Small Business and Regulation
• National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
• Papers in Economics
• Social Science Research Network
• The World Bank’s Doing Business Project

See also

• Categories:Directories