Information is offered to help researchers accustomed to primary research to understand the nature, forms, and opportunities of secondary analysis of entrepreneurial datasets. This chapter supplements work published in 1992 and 1993. Secondary analysis is generally faster and based on higher...

This work contains papers reporting on the structure, utilization and analytic concerns arising from the use of the major datasets in small business and entrepreneurship research including: the National Federation of Independent Businesses surveys; US Small Business Administration datasets; the...