Census Overview & Details

A Business Census is always geographically focused and always sponsored by a major local business advocacy group or groups, such as the major chamber of commerce or economic development organization.

Over six months, the census will produce a constant stream of detailed business intelligence that is several orders of magnitude deeper, broader, and more current than anything previously produced for the area.

It will target ALL local firms (all private-sector businesses with 25 or more employees) It will have an anticipated response rate of 25%-35% of all target companies It will provide answers to 50 or more questions including current contact data, size, growth, revenues, profitability, business outlook, service satisfaction ratings and more. Only three co-sponsors per sector (ie, banking, utilities, telecommunications, financial services, commercial real-estate) can be accepted for the project. Only sponsors and co-sponsors will have access to the detailed company profile information gathered in the Census. Once the Census begins, it will continue for approximately six months. Census results are being streamed to the sponsors in near real-time via the Internet over the course of the data collection period.

Once complete, a new six-month cycle will be initiated, providing local areas with an ever-current source of world-class business intelligence and trends.

 

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