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NEW: The 2024 DC Small Business Census can now be taken online by businesses in their own time at dcsmallbusinesssurvey.com.

DC-headquartered businesses can now participate in DC’s Small Business Census in just 3 – 5 minutes online at dcsmallbusinesssurvey.com. Every business that responds is helping District government make smarter investments in our small business community. The data business owners provide will be used to identify industry clusters that may need support, evaluate the success of our existing grant programs, and share more grant and community building opportunities with our small business community.

Business owners may have received a call or visit from a member of the DC Small Business Census team between April and now – if your business has already participated in the survey this year, you do not have to do so again.

Please help us to ensure that business owners of all backgrounds can thrive in our city. Learn more at dmped.dc.gov/sbc, and participate in the Small Business Census today at dcsmallbusinesssurvey.com. Please feel free to reach out to project lead Hannah Eli at [email protected] or the project team at [email protected] with any questions.

 

Hannah Eli
Data Officer
Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development
District of Columbia
(t) 202-568-2437; (e) [email protected]

Betsy Sava
Project Manager
BBC Research & Consulting
(t) 303-321-2547; (e) [email protected]

About the Small Business Census

The Government of the District of Columbia (the District) has selected BBC Research & Consulting (BBC), as well as Pantera Management Group (Pantera) and Tiber Hudson (Tiber), to conduct a census of small businesses in the District of Columbia. This census, known as the DC Small Business Census, will attempt to contact small businesses to participate in a short survey.

The census will be conducted in two parts via telephone and in-person interviews.

• Davis Research will conduct telephone interviews with local businesses.
• A street team identifying themselves as members of the DC Small Business Census project team will be going door-to-door to local businesses to conduct the census in-person for those businesses who did not fill out the census online or over the phone.
• In-person outreach for the Small Business Census has now begun. If your business is closed when a member of the Small Business Census team visits the address that we have on file, we will leave a leave-behind card with a unique code to enable you to take the survey online. This code may be on the front or back of the leave-behind card. Please see an image of the leave-behind card below. If you receive a leave-behind card that does not look like the leave behind card below, it is not legitimate outreach from the Small Business Census team. Please reach out to us with any questions.”

Next Steps

• Census announcement. Beginning in April 2024, the project team will work in conjunction with small business advocacy organizations to inform the small business community about the census.
• Telephone interviews. Davis Research will contact DC-headquartered small businesses via phone to complete their census entry.
• In-person interviews. A street team identifying themselves as members of the DC Small Business Census project team will be going door-to-door to DC-headquartered small businesses who have not yet participated in the census online or over the phone to conduct the census in person.
• Small Business Census Press Release - May 14, 2024
• Small Business Census Information Session with DSLBD's Inno.ED - Recording 
• Small Business Census Information Session with DSLBD's Inno.ED - Slides