(Restricted) Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs

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The Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs (ASE) provides information on selected economic and demographic characteristics for businesses and business owners by gender, ethnicity, race, and veteran status. Title 13 of the United States Code authorizes this survey and provides for mandatory responses. The ASE represents an exciting public-private partnership between the Census Bureau, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA). The partnership with the Kauffman Foundation and the MBDA supported costs associated with designing the survey, developing new content, mailing to sampled businesses, data processing and editing, and developing data products for disseminating survey results. The Census Bureau collaborated with the Kauffman Foundation to use their expertise in entrepreneurship research to develop new relevant content and the resulting data products. The Census Bureau's collaboration with the MBDA will help complete the picture of business ownership by producing modeled estimates for nonemployer businesses by gender, ethnicity, race, and veteran status. Additionally, estimates are produced for employer businesses on the number of firms, sales and receipts, annual payroll, and employment. Data are presented by gender, ethnicity, race, and veteran status for the United States by 2-digit 2012 NAICS, states, the top 50 metropolitan statistical areas, employment size, receipts size, and number of years in business.