No. 02 - 02
November 2002

Women Business Owners

Table 1
Number of Firms and Receipts by Industry For Minority Women-Owned Businesses, 1997

Industry = Total; Number of Firms = 923,403; Sales and Receipts (in thousands of dollars) = 84,666,144;

Industry = Agricultural services, forestry, and fishing; Number of Firms = 7,404; Sales and Receipts (in thousands of dollars) = 459,500;
Industry = Mining; Number of Firms = 622; Sales and Receipts (in thousands of dollars) = 131,056;

Industry = Construction; Number of Firms = 18,227; Sales and Receipts (in thousands of dollars) = 4,243,591;

Industry = Manufacturing; Number of Firms = 16,099; Sales and Receipts (in thousands of dollars) = 5,269,373;

Industry = Transportation, communications, and utilities; Number of Firms = 23,855; Sales and Receipts (in thousands of dollars) = 2,488,391 Industry = Wholesale trade; Number of Firms = 16,642; Sales and Receipts (in thousands of dollars) = 16,628,051;

Industry = Retail trade; Number of Firms = 133,924; Sales and Receipts (in thousands of dollars) = 16,172,247;

Industry = Finance, insurance, and real estate; Number of Firms = 48,432; Sales and Receipts (in thousands of dollars) = 3,640,761;

Industry = Services; Number of Firms = 531,532; Sales and Receipts (in thousands of dollars) = 29,456,109;

Industry = Industries not classified; Number of Firms = 126,821; Sales and Receipts (in thousands of dollars) = 6,177,064.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Survey of Minority-Owned Business Enterprises, 1997 Economic Census.