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Annual Business Survey: Technology Characteristics of Businesses: 2018

Metadata Updated: September 30, 2025

The Annual Business Survey (ABS) collected select data on technology use and production from all sampled businesses. Results of those data are provided in the ABS Technology Characteristics of Business tables. These Technology Characteristics of Businesses estimates also provide information on sex, ethnicity, race, and veteran status of U.S. employer firms with paid employees, operating during the reference year, with receipts of $1,000 or more. The ABS Technology Characteristics of Businesses cover reference year 2018.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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References

https://www.census.gov/developers/

Dates

Metadata Created Date July 15, 2022
Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025

Metadata Source

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Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date July 15, 2022
Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025
Publisher U.S. Census Bureau
Maintainer
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Data Last Modified 2020-10-23 00:00:00.0
Public Access Level public
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Program Code 006:007
Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Department Of Commerce > U.S. Census Bureau
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Temporal 2018/2018

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