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The Impact of the Pandemic on US Businesses: New Results from the Annual Business Survey

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  • Brent Meyer
  • Mark E. Schweitzer

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Working with Federal Reserve staff, the US Census Bureau added to the 2021 Annual Business Survey (ABS) a special module of questions focused on the pandemic and small business finances. Questions ranged from the impact of the pandemic on business sales, to government assistance requested/received, and to the financial health of the firm. In this article, we report the results of these questions—and how they differ by race and ethnicity. The survey finds that more than 60 percent of business experienced declines in sales. Fully one-third experienced significant declines. More than 70 percent of survey respondents requested government assistance, with the majority receiving 75 to 100 percent of their requests. However, the results also reveal that the fraction of minority-owned businesses receiving at least 75 percent of their requests was significantly lower for minority-owned businesses than for firms not owned by minorities. In general, the results find that minority-owned businesses were disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and expectations for business operations in 2022 are less optimistic than those for nonminority-owned businesses.

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  • Brent Meyer & Mark E. Schweitzer, 2022. "The Impact of the Pandemic on US Businesses: New Results from the Annual Business Survey," Policy Hub, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, vol. 2022(3), pages 1-13, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:a00068:99088
    DOI: 10.29338/ph2022-03
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    Keywords

    COVID-19; racial equity; small business credit access;
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    JEL classification:

    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • L5 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy
    • R3 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location

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