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    • 2021 Annual Business Survey: Characteristics of Business Owners

    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 October 30, 2023
    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 October 30, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date September 30, 2025
    Publisher U.S. Census Bureau
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://api.census.gov/data/id/ABSCBO2021
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-24 10:31:02.0
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 006:07
    C Dataset "abscbo"
    C Documentationlink https://www.census.gov/developer/
    C Exampleslink http://api.census.gov/data/2021/abscbo/examples.json
    C Geographylink http://api.census.gov/data/2021/abscbo/geography.json
    C Groupslink http://api.census.gov/data/2021/abscbo/groups.json
    C Isaggregate True
    C Isavailable True
    C Sorts Url http://api.census.gov/data/2021/abscbo/sorts.json
    C Tagslink http://api.census.gov/data/2021/abscbo/tags.json
    C Variableslink http://api.census.gov/data/2021/abscbo/variables.json
    C Vintage 2021
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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    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 7ba31a952e01220fdb07beed2f4cfa274a9b4e033b05e5c239ab4e8a9509bf7f
    Source Schema Version 1.1
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    Temporal 2021/2021

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