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Finance and Insurance (Sector 52);
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Real Estate and Rental and Leasing (Sector 53);
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Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (Sector 54);
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Management of Companies and Enterprises (Sector 55);
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Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services (Sector 56);
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Educational Services (Sector 61);
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Health Care and Social Assistance (Sector 62);
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Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (Sector 71);
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Accommodation and Food Services (Sector 72);
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Other Services (except Public Administration) (Sector 81);
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Public Administration (Sector 92); and
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Industries not classified.10
We provide examples of professions in these industries in the Appendix, based on information provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.11 In 2007, Georgia had 175,052 businesses, including microbusiness and nonmicrobusiness establishments. While these are many businesses, the subcategories for gender, race, ethnicity, and veteran status did not always have an entry for each subcategory. In some cases the U.S. Bureau of the Census had flagged the entries to protect the privacy of that particular (micro)businesses, i.e., there were too few (micro)businesses to warrant an entry. In other cases the number of (micro)businesses was zero. Thus, we only utilized the following categories in this report: ▪
Gender (i.e., male vs. female);
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Race (i.e., White); and
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Ethnicity (i.e., non-Hispanic only).
10
U.S. Bureau of the Census (n.d.b). North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). Washington, DC: U.S. Bureau of the Census. http://www.census.gov/cgibin/sssd/naics/naicsrch?chart=2007 11 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (n.d.). Industries at a Glance. Washington, DC: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. http://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag_index_naics.htm
9 III. Data Microbusinesses in Georgia: Characteristics and Economic Impacts