2005 was the year of the self employed and small businesses, in fact, it's the highest so far. The report was just released in December (there is considerable lag time in these reports).
The U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy issued the report called
The Small Business Economy for Data Year 2005. It cites 29 million small businesses. Of those 19.8 million were small businesses that have no employees.
Here's the full report:
http://www.sba.gov/advo/research/sb_econ2006.pdfTechnorati Tags:
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