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Women Business Ownership Fact Sheet

Using EPOP:2024 data, the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) presents a profile of women business owners and their impact on the economy.

Learn More March 2025
Black Business Ownership Fact Sheet

Using EPOP:2024 data, the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) highlights the significant contributions of Black entrepreneurs and opportunities for support.

Learn More February 2025
AEO Unveils New Survey Data to Amplify the Voices of Underserved Entrepreneurs
Learn More November 13, 2024
Latino Business Ownership Fact Sheet

Using EPOP:2023 data, the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) calls attention to Latino business owners’ contributions to the U.S. economy and the unique challenges they face. AEO uses EPOP:2023 data to study Latino entrepreneurs—to quantify their numbers, recognize the priority they place on growing their businesses, and note that they face inequitable access to resources and support.

Learn More October 2024
EPOP Podcast with Students at the Academy of Management

Karen Grigorian, EPOP Project Director, and Quentin Brummet, EPOP Principal Investigator, talked with students at the Academy of Management (AOM) about how students and other researchers might use EPOP data.  This podcast covers the available data, how to access and use the data, the data content, and future EPOP plans. 

Learn More October 15, 2023
Indiana Needs More and Better-Supported Entrepreneurs

The CEO of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) calls attention to findings from the EPOP-IN Survey about the entrepreneurial landscape in Indiana.

Learn More October 6, 2023
Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs: Removing Barriers (2023)

The Kauffman Foundation continues to recognize, with urgency, the significance of the role new and existing businesses play in local, regional, and the national economy. This report continues their series of sharing the state of capital access for entrepreneurs highlighting the need for innovative products and models to improve capital delivery systems.

Learn More July 14, 2023
EPOP in Indiana

Based on the national EPOP Survey, the Entrepreneurship in the Population: Indiana (EPOP-IN) project focuses on experiences with and interest in entrepreneurship in Indiana.  The Central Indiana Corporate Partnership (CICP) conducted EPOP-IN to learn about self-employment and business formation issues specific to residents in their state.   The study collected data from August to November 2022.  Click here for EPOP-IN information, data, and reports about the study.

If you are interested in learning more about conducting an EPOP study at the state, regional, or local level, please contact us at EPOPresearch@norc.org.

Learn More June 18, 2023
APPAM Fall Conference

The Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM) hosted its Fall Research Conference from November 17 to 19, 2022 in Washington DC.  EPOP researchers conducted a pre-conference workshop.

Learn More November 16, 2022
Data Dive Webinar on EPOP 2022 Findings

On 10/27/22 the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation hosted a webinar “Data Dive: Year 1 Findings from the NORC Entrepreneurship in the Population Survey.”

The webinar focused on the EPOP Survey data release and initial findings from this new nationally representative survey.  NORC experts discussed entrepreneurship measures useful to both researchers and policymakers.  The Data Dive launched the conversation on using EPOP Survey data to gain a deeper understanding of the complex entrepreneurial pathways at national, state, and local levels. 

View the Data Dive presentation

Learn More October 27, 2022

FEATURED NEWS

Release of the Third Year of EPOP Data and Resources on Entrepreneurship

NORC at the University of Chicago announces the release of the public use data files and initial findings from EPOP:2024, the third year of the EPOP Survey. The EPOP Survey is an annual, cross-sectional, nationally representative study of about 30,000 U.S.-residing adults. Among other findings, EPOP:2024 data reveals that American entrepreneurs rely heavily on personal financial resources, rather than institutional funding, to launch their businesses.

Learn More December 4, 2024

 

 

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