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2002 Survey of Business Owners
Advance Report on
Characteristics of Employer Business Owners: 2002

Educational Background of Owner


Data based on the 2002 Survey of Business Owners. Data are preliminary and subject to change, and will be superseded by data released in later reports. All data are shown as percents. Tables include only owners of firms with paid employees. Introductory text includes scope, methodology, sampling error, and nonsampling error.

Gender, veteran status, ethnicity, and race Owner's educational level1 SE for COLUMN2
High school or less Some college Under graduate Post graduate Not
reported
A B C D E A B C D E
ALL OWNERS 24 28 24 19 4 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
                     
GENDER                    
     Male 24 27 26 21 2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
     Female 27 33 23 15 2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.0
                     
VETERAN STATUS3                    
     Veteran 23 31 23 22 1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.0
     Service disabled veteran 21 36 20 22 1 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.1
                     
ETHNICITY                    
     Hispanic 37 30 15 15 2 0.6 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.2
     Non-Hispanic 24 29 25 20 2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
                     
RACE4                    
     White 25 29 25 19 2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
     Black or African American 21 31 21 25 2 0.5 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.1
     American Indian and Alaska Native 29 36 17 15 4 1.3 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.3
     Asian 23 21 28 26 2 0.5 0.3 0.5 0.5 0.1
     Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 29 34 20 13 3 2.5 1.9 3.0 2.1 0.7

1 Percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding.
2 For information on sampling and nonsampling error, see the "Reliability of Estimates" section of introductory text.
3 These data represent those owners who responded as veterans and does not include those owners who did not answer the question.
4 Owners reporting more than one race are counted in each race group reported.