The idea for this poll occurred after the SBA queried "How Important is Small Business to the U.S. Economy?"  Here’s what they concluded:

• Represents 99.7 percent of all employer firms.
• Employs about half of all private sector employees.
• Pays more than 45 percent of total U.S. private payroll.
• Have generated 60 to 80 percent of net new jobs annually
over the last decade.
• Creates more than half of nonfarm private gross domestic
product (GDP).
• Supplied 22.8% of the total value of federal prime
contracts in FY 2006.
• Hires 40% of high tech workers (such as scientists,
engineers and computer workers).
• Are 52 percent home-based and 2 percent franchises.
• Made up 97% of all identified exporters and produced
28.6% of the known export value in FY 2004.

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