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The B.C. Small Business Profile gives data and analysis on small businesses and their impact on B.C.’s economy. This information can help policy makers support small businesses to grow in an inclusive, innovative and sustainable way. Small businesses are defined as businesses with fewer than 50 employees. The profile data is updated annually. Current results are published to the small business dashboard: https://bcstats.shinyapps.io/sb-profile/ Previous reports can be found here: https://llbc.ent.sirsidynix.net/client/en_GB/main/search/results?qu=small+business+profile&te=

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Small Business Profile Data	CSV		https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/14828d0e-3cab-4477-af30-eab919d3451a/resource/1b1fa49f-d11a-405f-8cc8-57237aa57c96/download/small-business-profile-2025-data.csv
Appendix 1 - Counts of small businesses by industry and region	CSV		https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/14828d0e-3cab-4477-af30-eab919d3451a/resource/89480afa-cadd-4493-9a00-e8e3bdfed9fa/download/small-business-profile-2025-data-appendix-1.csv
Methodology for estimating small business GDP	PDF		https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/14828d0e-3cab-4477-af30-eab919d3451a/resource/8b2cc706-5603-4556-b12e-f8c99caa141c/download/gdp-methodology-october-2025.pdf
Appendix 2 - Self-employment by age and gender	CSV		https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/14828d0e-3cab-4477-af30-eab919d3451a/resource/ec7d03b1-5aa2-4611-8215-8f49112aeb37/download/small-business-profile-2025-data-appendix-2.csv
Original metadata (https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca)	HTML		https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/bc-small-business-profile

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