Kauffman Indicators of Entrepreneurship

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- Early-Stage Entrepreneurship
  The Kauffman Indicators of Early-Stage Entrepreneurship series captures early-stage entrepreneurial activity, broadly defined.
  Data Types Available:
  State
- Entrepreneurial Jobs
  The Entrepreneurial Jobs Indicators series focuses on the quantity and quality of private sector jobs, allowing for comparisons by firm age and geography.
  Data Types Available:
  State
  County
  MSA
- New Employer Businesses
  The New Employer Businesses series provides information on new employer businesses, trends in the emergence of these businesses, and the time it takes these businesses to make a first payroll.
  Data Types Available:
  State
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- State
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  Jobs
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- Counties
  Explore county-level entrepreneurship data.
  Series available:
  Jobs
- MSAs
  Explore the top 50 MSAs based on population.
  Series available:
  Jobs
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Keywords: jobs, entrepreneurship, measurement, indicators, firm age, job creation, earnings

Acknowledgments: Travis Howe and Sameeksha Desai developed the original framework for this project. Diane Burton, Robert Fairlie, Alyse Freilich, John Haltiwanger, Jessica Looze, Derek Ozkal, Stephen Tibbets, and Aleksandra Tsvetkova provided thoughtful discussion and ideas for refinement of this project. Katie Andersen, Thom Goff, Erin Kenney, and Hayden Murray provided methodological and data analysis support.

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