| 1 |
Software = SIC 7371+7372 |
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| 2 |
No of firms all industry |
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| State_level_firms% |
88.7% |
| Firms / state level firms % average from 1988 to 1994 |
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| 3 |
Small businesses |
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| Average of number of SBs / total number of firms, 88-95 |
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| |
99.72% |
| 4 |
Software firms |
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| Follow change in software receipts |
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| 5 |
Software SBs |
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| Average of 1993 and 1994 ratios of software SBs to all software
firms |
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| |
98.69% |
| 6 |
Receipts |
216% |
| Data taken from http://www.sba.gov/ADVO/stats/us88_95.html |
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| First year measured 1990 (1990 incomplete year) |
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| Earlier years use average of receipts over GDP from 1991 to
1995 |
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| 7 |
Small business receipts |
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| Based on small business receipts / over all receipts, modified
by % of small businesses over all businesses |
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| Uses average of above over 88-95 |
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| 8 |
Software receipts |
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| 1993-4 growth rate, modified by GDP growth rate in the year
(averages around 12%) |
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| 9 |
Software SB receipts |
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| Average of 1993 and 1994 ratios of software SB receipts to
all software receipts |
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| |
49.49% |
| 10 |
Procurement |
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| FPDC data linearly extrapolated during intervening years |
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| 11 |
Average growth |
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| Annual GDP growth divided by growth in number of companies |
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| Measures change in contribution per company to GDP |
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| 12 |
Double counting |
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| A proportion of companies receiving FP in a given year also
received it in the previous year |
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| Hence their success is already being reflected in the figures
extrapolated from the previous year |
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| % of FP cos in a given year who receive FP in following year |
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| |
21.60% |
| 13 |
Additional growth constant resulting from FP (see main report
for calculation) |
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8.62% |