Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) Fourth Follow Up Methodology Report
287 Pages Posted: 24 Mar 2010 Last revised: 28 Mar 2012
Date Written: March 16, 2010
Abstract
Although entrepreneurship is crucial to a capitalist economy, little information is available about U.S. businesses in their first years of operation. As part of an effort to gather more data on new businesses in the United States, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation sponsored the Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS), a panel study of businesses founded in 2004 and tracked over their first years of operation. The KFS collects data about the nature of new business formation; the characteristics of the strategy, offerings, and employment patterns; the nature of the financial and organizational arrangements of these businesses; and the characteristics of those who own and operate them. With the completion of the Fourth Follow-Up Survey, the KFS has collected this information from the panel of diverse businesses over five years, providing a unique look at business dynamics over this formative period.
Keywords: establishment surveys, entrepreneurship, business surveys
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