The two principal official firm size employment creation/destruction data sources differ somewhat, and as with many economic figures, they vary from year to year. BED figures show that a net million jobs were lost in 2008, 64 percent of which were from small firms. Over the past 15 years, small businesses have accounted for about 65 percent of the private-sector net job creation according to BED figures. (SUSB figures show small businesses accounting for about 90 percent of net new jobs through 2006.) The figures from both data sources are depicted in Figure 4. In non- downturn periods,.
