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» Contacting Government, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2003
If respondent has won one or more contracts in the last THREE years that resulted directly or indirectly in sales to government agencies.

Top 100 1b. Please estimate the percent of your total sales in the last THREE years that have come from direct and/or indirect sales to government agencies or units?

Response Small businesses with direct or indirect government contracts All small employing businesses/Small employers
1 Less than 2% 23 5
2 2 - 5% 27 5
3 6 - 10% 12 2
4 11 - 25% 16 3
5 26 - 99% 14 3
6 All 3 1
7 No direct or indirect government contracts 80
8 DK/Refuse 6 2
Total (%) 101 101
N 231 751

Notes: Fourteen (14) percent of small employers who have any government sales (direct and indirect) report that those sales amounted to 26 percent or more of their total sales (Q#1b). Four percent of small employers report that their sales to government (direct and indirect) amounted to 26 percent or more of total sales (Q#1b).


Volume 3, Issue 1, 2003
ISSN - 1534-8326

William J. Dennis, Jr.
NFIB Research Foundation



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