Office of Advocacy
The independent voice for small business in the Federal Government and the source of small business statistics.

Advocacy is an independent voice for small business within the federal government and is the watchdog for the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA). Advocacy advances the views and concerns of small business before Congress, the White House, the federal agencies, the federal courts and state policy makers.

Office Spotlight

Information abounds on the Internet, but timely, accurate, extensive, and accessible databases are sometimes hard to find. With more than 30 years of experience mining federal data sources from the Census Bureau to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, the Office of Advocacy today announced its newest research tool for small business researchers and policymakers, a hyperlinked listing of Small Business Data Resources. The new tool lists online databases by government or private sector source, hyperlinks the listings to their websites, and keys them to the small-business-related topics on which they provide information.