Easily compare small business data with Firms in Focus chartbooks
What will you discover?
Analyzing small business data across firm and owner characteristics can provide a helpful framework for understanding business experiences and credit outcomes. The 2025 Firms in Focus chartbooks are now available.
2025 Report on Employer Firms
Employment growth held steady between the 2023 and 2024 surveys. However, firms were more likely to report that revenues decreased rather than increased in the prior 12 months. Application rates for financing remained stable, as did approvals.
2025 Main Street Metrics
This chartbook presents over-time trends on small business performance and financing metrics using Small Business Credit Survey data from 2016 through 2024.
2024 Report on Startup Firms
The Small Business Credit Survey provides insights on different types of firms of various ages: from small startup nonemployer firms to well-established employer businesses. This report looks at what these firms have in common and how they differ.
2024 Report on Payments
This report summarizes data from the 2023 Small Business Credit Survey on small firms' payments practices and challenges.
From Short-Term Relief to Long-Term Hardship: Some Small Businesses Struggle with Debt Burdens from COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans
Numerous small businesses turned to the government's Economic Injury Disaster Loan program to weather the most challenging days of the pandemic. But some of these firms are struggling with the resulting debt burdens.
2024 Firms in Focus chartbooks on small business data
These 43 chartbooks help researchers easily compare small business data. They break down the data from the Federal Reserve’s 2023 Small Business Credit Survey by business characteristics, owner demographics, and geographic location (states and metropolitan statistical areas).