Table F: **Change in Black-Owned Firms and All U.S. Firms As Published:
2002 and 1997**

+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| As published       | All   |       | Firms |       |       |       |
|                    | fir   |       | with  |       |       |       |
|                    | ms^1^ |       | paid  |       |       |       |
|                    |       |       | empl  |       |       |       |
|                    |       |       | oyees |       |       |       |
+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
|                    | Firms | Rec   | Firms | Rec   | Empl  | A     |
|                    |       | eipts |       | eipts | oyees | nnual |
|                    | (nu   |       | (nu   |       |       | pa    |
|                    | mber) | (mi   | mber) | (mi   | (nu   | yroll |
|                    |       | llion |       | llion | mber) |       |
|                    |       |       |       |       |       | (mi   |
|                    |       | dol   |       | dol   |       | llion |
|                    |       | lars) |       | lars) |       |       |
|                    |       |       |       |       |       | dol   |
|                    |       |       |       |       |       | lars) |
+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| **Black-owned      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
| firms:**           |       |       |       |       |       |       |
+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 2002^2^            | 1,19  | 8     | 9     | 6     | 75    | 1     |
|                    | 7,661 | 8,779 | 4,585 | 5,934 | 6,697 | 7,576 |
+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1997^3^            | 82    | 7     | 9     | 5     | 71    | 1     |
|                    | 3,499 | 1,215 | 3,235 | 6,378 | 8,341 | 4,322 |
+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| Percent change     | 45.4  | 24.7  | 1.5   | 17.0  | 5.4   | 22.8  |
+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| **All U.S.         |       |       |       |       |       |       |
| firms:**           |       |       |       |       |       |       |
+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 2002^4^            | 22,97 | 22,62 | 5,52  | 21,85 | 1     | 3,81  |
|                    | 4,685 | 7,167 | 4,813 | 9,758 | 10,78 | 3,488 |
|                    |       |       |       |       | 6,416 |       |
+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1997^5^            | 20,82 | 18,55 | 5,29  | 17,90 | 1     | 2,93  |
|                    | 1,934 | 3,243 | 5,151 | 7,940 | 03,35 | 6,493 |
|                    |       |       |       |       | 9,815 |       |
+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| Percent change     | 10.3  | 22.0  | 4.3   | 22.1  | 7.2   | 29.9  |
+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| **Black-owned      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
| firms as a percent |       |       |       |       |       |       |
| of all U.S.        |       |       |       |       |       |       |
| firms:**           |       |       |       |       |       |       |
+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 2002               | 5.2   | 0.4   | 1.7   | 0.3   | 0.7   | 0.5   |
+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1997               | 4.0   | 0.4   | 1.8   | 0.3   | 0.7   | 0.5   |
+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| **Black-owned      |       |       |       |       |       |       |
| firms as a percent |       |       |       |       |       |       |
| of all U.S. firms, |       |       |       |       |       |       |
| excluding publicly |       |       |       |       |       |       |
| held and other     |       |       |       |       |       |       |
| firms not          |       |       |       |       |       |       |
| classifiable by    |       |       |       |       |       |       |
| gender, Hispanic   |       |       |       |       |       |       |
| or Latino origin,  |       |       |       |       |       |       |
| and race:**        |       |       |       |       |       |       |
+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 2002               | 5.3   | 1.0   | 1.8   | 0.8   | 1.4   | 1.1   |
+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
| 1997               | 4.0   | 0.9   | 1.9   | 0.7   | 1.2   | 1.0   |
+--------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+

^1^ Includes firms with paid employees and firms with no paid employees.

^2^ Source: 2002 Survey of Business Owners, Black-Owned Firms.

^3^ Source: 1997 Survey of Minority-Owned Business Enterprises.

^4^ Source: 2002 Economic Census.

^5^ Source: 1997 Economic Census.