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

Average Number of Hours Owner Spent Managing or Working 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 Data are preliminary and subject to change, and will be superseded by data released in later reports.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 Average number of hours owner spent managing or working in the business1 SE for COLUMN2
None Less than 20 20 to 39 40 41 to 59 60 or more Not
reported
A B C D E F G A B C D E F G
ALL OWNERS 7 13 12 14 30 19 4 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
                             
GENDER                            
     Male 6 11 11 14 34 22 3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
     Female 10 20 18 14 23 14 2 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1
                             
VETERAN STATUS3                            
     Veteran 6 14 14 13 31 20 2 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.0
     Service disabled veteran 6 14 15 10 27 26 2 0.5 0.9 0.4 0.5 0.9 0.8 0.2
                             
ETHNICITY                            
     Hispanic 5 11 12 16 30 23 2 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.1
     Non-Hispanic 7 14 13 14 31 19 3 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
                             
RACE4                            
     White 7 14 13 14 31 19 3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
     Black or African American 5 13 13 12 26 27 3 0.2 0.3 0.5 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.2
     American Indian and Alaska Native 5 12 13 13 28 25 4 0.3 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.3
     Asian 8 12 11 16 26 24 2 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.2
     Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander 7 13 12 17 25 24 2 1.2 2.2 1.0 2.2 2.0 2.9 0.4

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.