SBA Small Business Profiles for the States and Territories

The Office of Advocacy’s Small Business Profiles for the States and Territories http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/profiles/08profilestot.pdf supply data on small businesses in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The publication also provides national-level data and limited data on the U.S. territories. The usefulness of the publication is the great detail it provides about small businesses at the state level. The following topics are covered: the number of firms, demographics of business ownership, small business income, banking, business turnover, industry composition, and employment gains and losses by size of business. Detailed historical data may be found in the Small Business Economic Indicators http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/sbei.html and the Small Business Economy http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/sbe.html reports.

Montana Small Business Profile 2008 http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/profiles/08mt.pdf

Full Report: http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/profiles/