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Small Business Surveys
Two marketplace reports.
| | | | Tatum conducts a monthly survey of its partners regarding current business and economic conditions. The survey looks back at the past 30 days and forward to the next 60 days. With our partners serving a broad base of industries in every geographic region of the United States, the Tatum Survey of Business Conditions takes a representative pulse of economic activity as of the first day of every month. Results are published the first week of each month on our website.
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The National Federation of Independent Business Economic Report for
February, 2008
SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMIC TRENDS | | The Index of Small Business Optimism fell 3.3 points in March to 89.6 (1986=100), the lowest monthly reading since monthly surveys were started in 1986 and the lowest reading since 1980:2 (80.1) or 1975:1 (86.7). Half of the decline was accounted for by deterioration in the outlook for business conditions and expected real sales (a “recession in expectations” for sure). But job creation plans plunged as well, accounting for twenty percent of the Index decline. Unfilled job openings held as did plans to invest in inventory and to make capital outlays. A deterioration in earnings trends also accounted for twenty percent of the fall. These are recession readings. They are rarely held for more than a quarter. There were no monthly surveys during the periods that registered lower readings. The April survey will give a more definitive reading. The chart below shows the Index component values for recession periods with lower Index values and, for a more recent comparison, the low point in the 1990-91 recession.(read more) | | | | |
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"Jim Blasingame is a tireless advocate of small business owners. No one works harder or does a better job of raising the profile of the small business community. His advocacy of small business is a labor of love and it comes across in all the media he delivers."
— Joan Pryde
Senior Editor
The Kiplinger Editors
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