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    • Annual Business Survey: Characteristics of Businesses: 2018

    Metadata Updated: September 30, 2025

    The Annual Business Survey (ABS) provides information on selected economic and demographic characteristics for businesses and business owners by sex, ethnicity, race, and veteran status. Further, the survey measures research and development (for microbusinesses), new business topics such as innovation and technology, as well as other business characteristics. The U.S. Census Bureau and the National Center conduct the ABS jointly for Science and Engineering Statistics within the National Science Foundation. The ABS replaces the five-year Survey of Business Owners (SBO) for employer businesses, the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs (ASE), the Business R&D and Innovation for Microbusinesses survey (BRDI-M), and the innovation section of the Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDI-S). https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/abs.html

    Access & Use Information

    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

    Harvested from Commerce Non Spatial Data.json Harvest Source

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date July 15, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025
    Publisher U.S. Census Bureau
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://api.census.gov/data/id/ABSCB2018
    Data Last Modified 2020-10-26 00:00:00.0
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 006:07
    C Dataset "abscb"
    C Documentationlink https://www.census.gov/developer/
    C Exampleslink http://api.census.gov/data/2018/abscb/examples.json
    C Geographylink http://api.census.gov/data/2018/abscb/geography.json
    C Groupslink http://api.census.gov/data/2018/abscb/groups.json
    C Isaggregate True
    C Isavailable True
    C Sorts Url http://api.census.gov/data/2018/abscb/sorts.json
    C Tagslink http://api.census.gov/data/2018/abscb/tags.json
    C Variableslink http://api.census.gov/data/2018/abscb/variables.json
    C Vintage 2018
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 864234a2-4919-4a03-8282-b0c3cd55638b
    Harvest Source Id bce99b55-29c1-47be-b214-b8e71e9180b1
    Harvest Source Title Commerce Non Spatial Data.json Harvest Source
    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Old Spatial United States
    Program Code 006:007
    Publisher Hierarchy U.S. Government > U.S. Department Of Commerce > U.S. Census Bureau
    Related Documents https://www.census.gov/developers/
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash b0847e01de4f49b484fb208cf1cc2a4c03e462b27ec4975956f6ffa435c3b746
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":-124.733253,24.544245,-124.733253,49.388611,-66.954811,49.388611,-66.954811,24.544245,-124.733253,24.544245}
    Temporal 2018/2018

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