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Small Business Loans
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Variable Definitions:
CRA Loan Count: The number of CRA loans granted to small businesses in a given area
CRA Loan Amount: The total dollar amount of CRA loans granted to small businesses in a given area
SBA 7a Loan Count: The number of SBA 7a loans granted to small businesses in a given area
SBA 7a Loan Amount: The total dollar amount of SBA 7a loans granted to small businesses in a given area
SBA 504 Loan Count: The number of SBA 504 loans granted to small businesses in a given area
SBA 504 Loan Amount: The total dollar amount of SBA 504 loans granted to small businesses in a given area
Source:
CRA Loans: Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
7a & 504 Loans: Small Business Administration
Years Available:
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
Methodology Note:
The CRA Loan data comes at the census tract level. SBA Loan data comes at comes at the point level. Our team geocoded the locations to generate X/Y coordinates, then spatial joined each point to 2020 Census Tracts. CRA and SBA data is then collapsed at the census tract level and merged into one dataset for publishing.
Why are these variables important to measure?
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