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Table 16b. Employer Firms, Receipts, Exports, Employment, Average Employment, Average Productivity, and Annual Payroll by Exporting Status, Race, and Minority Status: 2007

(This table provides standard errors [SEs] and relative standard errors [RSEs] for the estimates in Appendix Table 16a. For information on confidentiality, sampling error, nonsampling error, and definitions for the Survey of Business Owners, see www.census.gov/econ/sbo/methodology.html; for the Profile of U.S. Exporting Companies, see www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/edb/2008/techdoc.pdf.)

Employer status	Exporting status1	Race and minority status	RSE of firms (%)	RSE of receipts (%)	RSE of exports (%)	RSE of employment (%)	RSE of average employment (%)	RSE of average productivity (%)	RSE of annual payroll (%)
Firms with paid employees	All firms with and without exports	All firms	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Firms with paid employees	All firms with and without exports	White	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
Firms with paid employees	All firms with and without exports	Black or African American	1	3	9	2	2	4	2
Firms with paid employees	All firms with and without exports	American Indian and Alaska Native	2	4	11	2	3	4	4
Firms with paid employees	All firms with and without exports	Asian	0	1	14	1	1	1	1
Firms with paid employees	All firms with and without exports	Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	6	7	9	11	13	13	11
Firms with paid employees	All firms with and without exports	Some other race	2	5	32	8	8	9	4
Firms with paid employees	All firms with and without exports	Minority	0	1	10	1	1	1	1
Firms with paid employees	All firms with and without exports	Equally minority/nonminority	1	5	34	4	4	6	4
Firms with paid employees	All firms with and without exports	Nonminority	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
Firms with paid employees	All firms with and without exports	All classifiable firms	0	0	3	0	0	0	0
Firms with paid employees	All firms with and without exports	Publicly held and other unclassifiable firms	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Firms with paid employees	Firms with exports	All firms	1	0	1	0	1	0	0
Firms with paid employees	Firms with exports	White	1	1	3	0	1	1	0
Firms with paid employees	Firms with exports	Black or African American	12	15	9	8	14	17	10
Firms with paid employees	Firms with exports	American Indian and Alaska Native	19	9	11	6	20	11	5
Firms with paid employees	Firms with exports	Asian	4	4	14	3	5	5	3
Firms with paid employees	Firms with exports	Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	47	6	9	5	47	8	4
Firms with paid employees	Firms with exports	Some other race	24	16	32	15	28	22	13
Firms with paid employees	Firms with exports	Minority	3	3	10	2	4	4	2
Firms with paid employees	Firms with exports	Equally minority/nonminority	14	14	34	10	17	17	12
Firms with paid employees	Firms with exports	Nonminority	1	1	3	0	1	1	0
Firms with paid employees	Firms with exports	All classifiable firms	1	1	3	0	1	1	0
Firms with paid employees	Firms with exports	Publicly held and other unclassifiable firms	2	0	1	0	2	0	0
Firms with paid employees	Firms without exports	All firms	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Firms with paid employees	Firms without exports	White	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Firms with paid employees	Firms without exports	Black or African American	1	2	0	2	2	3	2
Firms with paid employees	Firms without exports	American Indian and Alaska Native	2	4	0	3	4	5	4
Firms with paid employees	Firms without exports	Asian	0	2	0	1	1	2	1
Firms with paid employees	Firms without exports	Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander	6	8	0	11	13	14	12
Firms with paid employees	Firms without exports	Some other race	2	4	0	9	9	10	4
Firms with paid employees	Firms without exports	Minority	0	1	0	1	1	1	1
Firms with paid employees	Firms without exports	Equally minority/nonminority	1	6	0	4	4	7	5
Firms with paid employees	Firms without exports	Nonminority	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Firms with paid employees	Firms without exports	All classifiable firms	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
Firms with paid employees	Firms without exports	Publicly held and other unclassifiable firms	0	1	0	1	1	1	0

 ¹ Firms with no shipment of $2,500 or more per commodity during 2007, firms out-of-scope to the Survey of Business Owners, and firms in the Survey of Business Owners sample that did not match to the Profile of U.S. Exporting Companies are not included in "firms with exports."
 Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2007 Survey of Business Owners and 2007-2008 Profile of U.S. Exporting Companies.