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America Counts: Stories Behind the Numbers
Census Bureau Launches Phase 2 Small Business Pulse Survey
In mid-May 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau pioneered a new weekly survey to take the pulse of how America’s small businesses were faring in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
In the ensuing nine-week period that the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS) was in the field, we heard from over 215,000 businesses across the country. These companies of one to 499 employees provided important new insights into the effects of the pandemic.
The survey was so successful that on August 9, the Census Bureau launched Phase 2 with the first round of responses expected today and every Thursday at 10 a.m.
To learn more about phase 2 of the SBPS, the new topics it includes, and what we learned from phase 1, continue reading.
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