Entrepreneurship over Time: Measures of Activity and Recent Changes in the U.S.: 1993-2002

According to the authors, data from three different research programs, all measuring the prevalence rate of new firm creation in the U.S. adult population, suggest that from 1993 to 2002 the level of entrepreneurship may have increased up to three fold, from 4 to over 13 percent. Of those 18-74 years of age - a shift from one in twenty adults to one in six adults.