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Finance for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: A Report on the 2004 UK Survey of SME Finances
Ethnic minority businesses
The distribution of businesses which are 50% or more (‘majority’) owned by
individuals
from white and ethnic minority groups respectively, are reported in the
following pie chart.
Figure 2.1.8: Distribution of Ethnic Backgrounds
of Majority of Owners
Base: All businesses N p =
4%
2%
1%
93%
White Asian Other Ethnic Black
3,625,416 (Unweighted N=2,500)
usinesses are m y white o 3,400,000 esses).
of businesses ajority ow by people f thnic minority
220,000 b sinesses). 14
• 93% of b
ajorit wned ( busin
• About 7%
are m ned rom
e
backgrounds ( u
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Notably, census data give the following bre akdown for ethnic minority businesses (see Census 2001:
National Report for England and Wale s – www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/ – Table S112 )
White British 88.5%
White Irish 1.4%
Other White 2.8%
Mixed:
White
and Black Caribbean 0.2%
White
and Black African 0.1%
White and Asian 0.2%
Other 0.2%
Asian:
Indian 2.3%
Pakistani 1.4%
Bangladeshi 0.3%
Other 0.5%
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