Entrepreneurship

Statistical sources focusing on broader business and economic metrics.

Statistical sources focusing on specific industries and on market research functions.

Statistics on patents and other forms of intellectual property, which can serve as proxies for innovation.

Statistical sources are listed in the guides for U.S. Federal, State, and International Government Publications.

Portal which harvests data sets from a multitude of U.S. government agencies.

U.S. and Global reports containing statistics on entrepreneurship and related topics. Publishers include government agencies, NGOs, research institutes, and commercial publishers. As of 2013, is part of the same ProQuest suite that includes the U.S. Statistical Abstract.

As of 2012, the U.S. Census stopped publishing the Abstract, which is now being continued by ProQuest as part of the ProQuest suite of statistical databases.

Archive of social science data in raw data formats for research and instruction. Coverage includes various topics related to entrepreneurship and is particularly useful for longitudinal studies of political and sociological aspects of small businesses.

Collects data on “birth and death” of enterprises as well as employment.

Includes statistics and reports on the impact of health insurance on small businesses.

Downloadable data and reports on entrepreneurial activity in the U.S.

Tracks the progress of entrepreneurial education.

From University of New Hampshire School of Business.

From Price Waterhouse, quarterly reports on venture capital activity in the U.S.

A joint project of the World Bank and other NGOs, metrics for tracking entrepreneurship worldwide.

Includes statistics on entrepreneurship and small business activity.

From the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Data Library publishes the annual reports Entrepreneurship at a Glance.

Reports and statistics on the role of entrepreneurship in economic development.