The landscape for small firm data in the US  Commensurate with their importance in the US economy, there are many data sources at the national, state, and local levels examining small firms. Whether you’re looking for data on jobs, new business creation, or startup survival, there are a number of places you can find information.* While more data is generally a good thing, it can be overwhelming to try to navigate the myriad datasets and statistics and make sense of the differ

Small firms with 1-20 workers make up the majority of employer firms in the US. But these businesses, especially those in low-income neighborhoods, are under-examined in existing research like large economic surveys. Here's why, and here's how the Small Firm Diaries proposes to help fill the gap.

The Financial Access Initiative started conducting in-depth, diaries-style analyses on small firms in 2021, with studies in 7 countries....

In our last post we talked about the challenge of understanding both how volatile revenues and expenses are for small firms, but more...

When, where, and why fluctuations in income and expenses matter This fall, when we began to dig into early data coming out of the Small...

As part of CFI's Financial Inclusion week, Tim Ogden and Jonathan Morduch discuss why they embarked on the Small Firm Diaries study. They...

In this video, which we made for the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) Annual Conference, we walk through summary...