July 2010 – Preliminary information on veteran business owner demographics assembled by the U.S. Census Bureau is available now on the census website 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO). The SBO provides data on the number of firms, sales and receipts, employment, and annual payroll for business type by gender, Hispanic or Latino origin, race, and veteran status. Download census data tables (self-extracting Microsoft Excel files) sorted by industrial sectors and by state.
March 2010 – Saving for Retirement: A Look at Small Business Owners [PDF file] by Jules Lichtenstein, Office of Advocacy, Research Summary [PDF]
October 2009 – An Analysis of the Effect of Reserve Activation on Small Business [PDF file] by John B. Hope and Patrick C. Mackin, SAG Corporation, Research Summary [PDF]
August 2008 – Do Business Definition Decisions Distort Small Business Research Results? [PDF file] an Office of Advocacy Working Paper by Brian Headd and Radwan Saade, Office of Advocacy, Research Summary [PDF]
December 2007 – Educational Attainment and Other Characteristics
of the Self-Employed: An Examination using Data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics [PDF File] a working paper by Chad Moutray, U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, Research Summary. [PDF File]
December 2007 – Characteristics of Veteran Business Owners and Veteran-owned Businesses [PDF File] Chapter 5 of The Small Business Economy for Data Year 2006, A Report to the President
October 2007 – Income and Wealth of Veteran Business Owners, 1989 – 2004 [PDF File] submitted by George W. Haynes, Research Summary. [PDF File]
January 2007 – Self-Employment in the Veteran and Service-Disabled Veteran Population [PDF File] submitted by Open Blue Solutions, Research Summary. [PDF File]
December 2004 – Research Study [PDF file], Evaluating Veteran Business Owner Data, an Advocacy report prepared in collaboration with Jack Faucett Associates, Inc., Eagle Eye Publishers, Inc., Waldman Associates, and REDA International, Inc., Research Summary.
December 2005 – Entrepreneurship and Business Ownership in the Veteran and Service-Disabled Veteran Community [PDF file], submitted by Waldman Associates
December 2004 – Research Study [PDF file], Self-Employed Business Ownership Rates in the United States: 1979-2003, submitted by Robert W. Fairlie Research Summary.
November 2004 Research Study [PDF file], Entrepreneurship and Business Ownership In the Veteran Population, Waldman Associates Research Summary.
June 2004 Research Study [PDF file], Characteristics of Federal Government Procurement Spending With Veteran-Owned Businesses: FY 2000 – FY 2003 (3Q), submitted by Eagle Eye Publishers, Inc., Research Summary.
December 1986 Research Study [PDF file], Differences Between Veteran-Owned and Non-Veteran-Owned Businesses , submitted by David Rothenberg Research Summary.
November 1986 Research Study [PDF file], Financial Success and Business Ownership Among Vietnam and Other Veterans, submitted by Steven Lustgarten Associates, Inc., Research Summary.
1984 –1986 [PDF] Profiling Entrepreneurial Veterans (Vol.III) (Vol.II) (Vol.I) , submitted by Mid-Atlantic Research Inc., Research Summary.
May 1985 Research Study [PDF file], A Study of Department of Defense Procurement from Veterans , submitted by KCA Research, Inc Research Summary.
May 1985 Research Study [PDF file], Viable Loan Categories for Veterans , submitted by Joel Popkin & Company Research Summary.
May 1985 Research Study [PDF file], Enterpreneurial Choice and Success , submitted by David S. Evans .
March 1985 Research Study [PDF file], Vietnam-Era Veterans and Enterpreneurship , submitted by Jerry F. Booren Research Summary.
Historical Research
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