New Census Data Confirm -- Number of Women Firms Growing at Twice Rate of All Firms

The Census Bureau has just released a report that analyzes data from a 2002 Census survey of millions of business owners. According to the survey, 28% of all US private businesses are owned 51% or more by women. Most of the women owned firms are sole proprietor businesses, but so are 76% of all private businesses. The number of women owned firms grew 20% between 1997-2002; rate of increase for all private businesses was just 10%.

Our own Erin Fuller is quoted in a story on the survey in the Quad-City (Iowa) Times.

Click here to read the press release and get a copy of the survey.