Only a few large, nationally-representative datasets include information on both the owner and the business. We briefly describe several of the most respected and up-to-date sources of data on entrepreneurs, the self-employed, and small businesses. More information including estimates of recent...

Dieser Bericht untersucht das Potential von Big Data in und für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU). Dafür werden mittels einer Umfrage, Fokus-Interviews und zusätzlichen Recherchen die Potentiale und Herausforderungen bei Big Data untersucht, welche für KMU zu Tragen kommen. Der Begriff...

The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) deserves entrepreneurship researchers' particular attention because it is a decades-old dataset that allows for cross-sectional, longitudinal and intergenerational analyses of both individuals and families. Originally designed to study the effects of...

The 2003 Survey of Small Business Finances (SSBF) screening interview had significant unit nonresponse and therefore some type of nonresponse adjustment was deemed necessary. The approach used in the 2003 survey differed from that used in previous surveys. The current paper examines the impact...