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Microenterprise Employment Statistics (MEES)


AEO's Microenterprise Employment Statistics calculates the percent of EMPLOYMENT that is attributed to microenterprises (businesses with five or less employees).


This information provides the field with accurate, reliable statistics on the economic prevalence of microenterprise in terms of employers and employees through a county-by-county breakdown of three indicators vital to understanding the impact of microenterprises on the U.S. economy:

  1. total number of microenterprises;
  2. total microenterprise employment; and
  3. microenterprise as a percentage of total employment.
MEES also classifies each county as Rural or Urban and provides a breakdown of rural/urban microenterprise employment and the percentage of rural/urban counties employed by microenterprises.



The primary methodology for this analysis was developed by James C. McConnon, Jr., Business & Economics Specialist and Associate Professor of Resource Economics and Policy at the University of Maine, and Thomas Allen, Associate Scientist at the University of Maine. AEO is indebted to them for sharing this work and asks that any organizations using this methodology provide full credit to McConnon and Allen in final products. The methodology for the Rural-Urban County Breakouts was developed by the AEO Research Department staff and the data used is culled from the U.S. Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, and U.S. Department of Agriculture.

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