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Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics (NES-D) APIs

The Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics (NES-D) provides information on selected economic and demographic characteristics for nonemployer businesses and business owners by sex, ethnicity, race, and veteran status for the nation, states, and metro areas. The NES-D is not a survey; rather, it leverages existing individual-level administrative records to assign demographic characteristics to the universe of nonemployer businesses. Demographic characteristics including sex, ethnicity, race, veteran status, owner age, place of birth, and U.S. citizenship are assigned to nonemployer business owners.

Datasets include:

  • Statistics for Nonemployer and Employer Firms. Provides data for nonemployer businesses by sector, sex, ethnicity, race, veteran status, receipts size of firm, legal form of organization, and Urban and Rural classification of firm for the U.S., states, and metro areas. Additionally, provides data for the total number of businesses and receipts by demographics by combining employer data from the Annual Business Survey (ABS) with nonemployer data from the NES-D.
  • Owner Characteristics of Nonemployer Firms. Provides data for owners of nonemployer firms by sector, sex, ethnicity, race, and veteran status for the U.S., states, and metro areas, including detailed owner characteristics.

For a complete description of the NES-D methodology, please visit www.census.gov/programs-surveys/abs/technical-documentation/NESDmethodology.html.

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The Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics series (NES-D) provides information on the demographic characteristics of nonemployer businesses. The employer data in the Statistics for Employer and Nonemployer Firms dataset comes from the 2021 Annual Business Survey (ABS), reference year 2020.

Statistics for Nonemployer and Employer Firms

api.census.gov/data/2020/absnesd?get=NAME,GEO_ID,NAICS2017_LABEL,SEX,ETH_GROUP,RACE_GROUP,VET_GROUP,FIRMNOPD,URSZFI&for=us:*&NAICS2017=00&key=YOUR_KEY_GOES_HERE

For detailed information about the values available, please see Technical Information for ABS API – Statistics for Nonemployer and Employer Firms

Page Last Revised - January 8, 2024
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