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How can I find business startups or failure rates by size of firm?

• Employer Firm Births and Deaths by Employment Size of Firm from the Small Business Administration
  
  
• Business Enterprise U.S. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2012 Table 765 Firm Births and Deaths by Employment Size of Enterprise.
  
  
• American Bankruptcy Institute offers quarterly U.S. bankruptcy data by state going back to 1980. Click on Newsroom and check Bankruptcy Statistics
  
  
• YourEconomy.org provides annual business opening and closing statistics at the state and county level from 1993-present.
  
  

updated 2/11/15