Maine Microbusinesses and Employment Levels by State, 2006

State	Number of Microbusinesses			Total Employment^1
	Without Employees^2	With 1-4 Employees^3	Total	All Micro-businesses^4	Percent of State^5,6
Connecticut	253,992	49,114	303,106	389,056	17.5
Maine	114,873	23,965	138,838	177,182	21.2
Massachusetts	453,998	93,360	547,358	708,871	16.9
New Hampshire	105,798	20,962	126,760	162,605	19.0
Rhode Island	69,327	16,841	86,168	114,124	18.4
Vermont	59,806	12,809	72,615	94,262	22.1
New England	1,057,794	217,051	1,274,845	1,646,100	17.9
United States	20,768,555	4,137,018	24,905,573	31,855,763	18.1

^1/ Total employment includes proprietors and all non-farm part-time and full-time employees.

^2/ Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Non-Employer Statistics, 2006.

^3/ Source: 2006 County Business Patterns, U.S. Dept. of Commerce.

^4/ Includes microbusiness entrepreneurs (with and without employees) and estimated employment for businesses with 1-4 employees.

^5/ Microbusiness employment as a percent of total state employment.

^6/ Source: 2006 Bureau of Economic Analysis, Full-time and Part-time State Employment Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Commerce.

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Information in this table was compiled by James C. McConnon, Jr., Extension Business and Economics Specialist and Professor, School of Economics, University of Maine.