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2002 Survey of Business Owners
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You are here: 2002 Survey
of Business Owners 
Advance
report Owner's primary function
in the business
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 Data are preliminary and subject to change, and will be superseded by data released in later reports.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 primary function in the business1 | SE for COLUMN2 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Producing goods / services |
Managing day-to-day operations | Financial control with the authority to sign loans, leases, and contracts | Other | Not reported |
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| A | B | C | D | E | A | B | C | D | E | |
| ALL OWNERS | 45 | 62 | 53 | 11 | 3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| GENDER | ||||||||||
| Male | 50 | 66 | 54 | 9 | 2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Female | 36 | 57 | 54 | 17 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| VETERAN STATUS3 | ||||||||||
| Veteran | 49 | 64 | 57 | 9 | 1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Service disabled veteran | 52 | 68 | 59 | 8 | 1 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 |
| ETHNICITY | ||||||||||
| Hispanic | 48 | 64 | 46 | 9 | 2 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| Non-Hispanic | 46 | 63 | 54 | 11 | 1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| RACE4 | ||||||||||
| White | 46 | 63 | 55 | 11 | 1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| Black or African American | 47 | 64 | 49 | 10 | 2 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 48 | 68 | 58 | 7 | 3 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| Asian | 45 | 62 | 44 | 11 | 2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander | 47 | 64 | 53 | 11 | 2 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 2.8 | 1.6 | 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.
