id	claim	geography	period	source_id	locator	evidence_level	limitation
c01	Portland metro employer businesses recorded 1084535 payroll jobs	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro MSA	2022	susb-msa-2022	MSA 38900 NAICS -- ENTRSIZE 01	direct	Census SUSB employment is mid-March and excludes nonemployers
c02	Enterprises with fewer than 20 employees held 203569 jobs or 18.8 percent of Portland metro SUSB jobs	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro MSA	2022	susb-msa-2022	MSA 38900 NAICS -- ENTRSIZE 05	derived	Enterprise size is total company employment; source noise flag G
c03	Enterprises with fewer than 500 employees held 544855 jobs or 50.2 percent of Portland metro SUSB jobs	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro MSA	2022	susb-msa-2022	MSA 38900 NAICS -- ENTRSIZE 08	derived	Threshold much broader than locally owned or under 50
c04	Enterprises with fewer than 500 employees accounted for 41.0 percent of metro employer payroll	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro MSA	2022	susb-msa-2022	MSA 38900 NAICS -- ENTRSIZE 08/01 PAYR	derived	Payroll is not worker total compensation or value added
c05	Enterprises with fewer than 500 employees accounted for 35.4 percent of metro employer receipts	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro MSA	2022	susb-msa-2022	MSA 38900 NAICS -- ENTRSIZE 08/01 RCPT	derived	Receipts are not GDP or profits
c06	County SUSB recorded 439591 employer-business jobs	Multnomah County	2022	susb-county-2022	State 41 County 051 NAICS -- Enterprise Size 1	direct	County includes outside Portland and excludes city portions elsewhere
c07	County enterprises under 500 held 216121 jobs or 49.2 percent of SUSB jobs	Multnomah County	2022	susb-county-2022	State 41 County 051 NAICS -- Enterprise Size 2+3+4	derived	Count uses non-overlapping county size bands
c08	County enterprises under 20 held 76485 jobs or 17.4 percent of SUSB jobs	Multnomah County	2022	susb-county-2022	State 41 County 051 NAICS -- Enterprise Size 2	derived	Not a city estimate
c09	Portland metro had 85883 professional-services jobs and 100485 accommodation-food jobs in SUSB	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro MSA	2022	susb-msa-2022	MSA 38900 NAICS 54 and 72 ENTRSIZE 01	direct	Employer jobs; industries include large firms
c10	Portland metro had 165698 health-care jobs in SUSB	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro MSA	2022	susb-msa-2022	MSA 38900 NAICS 62 ENTRSIZE 01	direct	Sector includes many institutional employers
c11	Multnomah County had 77829 nonemployer tax-reporting businesses with $4.272 billion gross receipts	Multnomah County	2023	nes-2023	ST 41 CTY 051 NAICS 00	direct	Not necessarily city based; gross receipts before expenses
c12	Multnomah County private covered annual-average jobs fell from 447067 in 2019 to 415659 in 2025	Multnomah County	2019 and 2025	qcew-2025	area_fips 41051 own_code 5 industry_code 10 size_code 0 qtr A	derived	2019 comparison from qcew-2019; sector composition and definitions may shift
c13	Multnomah County health-care covered jobs rose from 67288 to 75064	Multnomah County	2019 and 2025	qcew-2025	area_fips 41051 own_code 5 industry_code 62 size_code 0 qtr A	derived	Does not show firm sizes
c14	Multnomah County manufacturing covered jobs fell from 35565 to 28155	Multnomah County	2019 and 2025	qcew-2025	area_fips 41051 own_code 5 industry_code 31-33 size_code 0 qtr A	derived	Sector changes are not necessarily caused by local policy
c15	Office of Small Business reports 759 unique businesses served	Portland city	First year after May 2025 launch	osb-2026	Page 4 headline	reported	Program output; not verified impact
c16	Food service was 33 percent of OSB businesses served and retail storefronts 15 percent	Portland city	OSB first year	osb-2026	Page 4 INDUSTRY	reported	Client mix is not the city business mix
c17	Prosper resources accounted for 50 percent of OSB service categories	Portland city	OSB first year	osb-2026	Page 4 SERVICES	reported	Referral or guidance is not proof of benefit
c18	The four OSB district business counts sum to 581 while the report states 759 unique businesses	Portland city	OSB first year	osb-2026	Pages 2 and 4; district counts 103 182 154 142	derived	Reasons for 178 difference are not explained
c19	OSB report uses both 1600 touchpoints and 1700-plus interactions	Portland city	OSB first year	osb-2026	Pages 2-3	reported	Terms or periods may differ; not yet reconciled
c20	Chamber report states both 20 percent and 28 percent as the metro small-business worker share	Portland metro	2023 report	chamber-2023	Report at a Glance and What the data shows	reported	City Council acceptance uses 28 percent; underlying denominators need confirmation
c21	Chamber defines small businesses as firms with 1-50 employees	Portland metro; county	2023 report	chamber-2023	Introduction	reported	Not comparable to SUSB under-20 or under-500
c22	Prosper's FY2023-24 board update reports 621 IBRN businesses served	Portland city	FY2023-24	ibrn-2025	Inclusive Business Resource Network section	reported	Overlap with OSB clients unknown
c23	The IBRN board update reports about 30 percent response to client outcome surveys	Portland city	FY2023-24	ibrn-2025	Inclusive Business Resource Network section	reported	Nonresponse prevents treating respondent outcomes as all-client outcomes
c24	City audit found unreliable emergency-grant outcome assessment due to 36 percent response	Portland city	2020 grants	city-audit-grants	Outcome assessment section	audited	Historic emergency program; not a finding about current OSB
c25	BEA says it has no consistent comprehensive small-business measure and ended regular production of its experimental statistics	US	current 2026	bea-small	Opening notice	reviewed	National evidence does not supply local size-specific GDP
c26	City permit dashboard reports application and issuance counts and review times	Portland city	current	city-permits	Understanding commercial and residential permits	reviewed	Commercial type and applicant business size need additional joins
c27	Official 2022 SUSB MSA dataset was revised in July 2025 to remove extraneous estimates	US metros	2022	susb-errata	Notice Revision of Dataset	reviewed	Extract uses revised file hash
c28	Singapore provides a digital advisor and shared technology advice to SMEs	Singapore	2025	singapore-digital	SMEs Go Digital Day	screened	Program existence is not an estimate of causal effectiveness
c29	Seattle offers accounting legal space and permit guidance to small businesses	Seattle	2026	seattle-services	Helping Seattle small businesses grow	screened	Program designs have different local authority and costs
c30	NYC Comptroller documented inconsistent and ungrounded AI chatbot responses	New York City	2025	nyc-mycity	Audit Summary of Findings	audited	Shows a failure mode not Portland performance
c31	Portland metro recorded 6911 establishment entries and 6588 establishment exits in 2023	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro MSA	2023	bds-msa-2023	year 2023 msa 38900 estabs_entry and estabs_exit	direct	Establishment entries include expansions of existing firms; not a count of new firms or a survival rate
c32	Portland metro BDS age-zero category counted 4472 new employer firms in 2023	Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro MSA	2023	bds-msa-age-2023	year 2023 msa 38900 fagecoarse a) 0 firms	direct	Firm age assigned from parent firm; BDS employer universe; not incorporated city
c33	Prosper FY2025-26 proposed agency budget totaled $189 million across many activities and 105 positions	Portland city	FY2025-26	prosper-fy26-proposed	Financial and budgetary impacts paragraph	reported	Proposal not final actual spending or a small-business-only amount
c34	Proposed FY2025-26 targets included $23 million new loans and $7.3 million grants for mixed small-business and urban-development activities	Portland city	FY2025-26	prosper-fy26-proposed	Key Performance Indicators paragraph	reported	Targets; loans are principal and not operating expense; mixed beneficiaries
c35	Prosper reports 108785 Portland city small-business jobs in 2019 and 112411 in 2024	Portland city	2019 and 2024	prosper-insights	Figure 1.06 PDF page 17 (printed page 11)	reported	Report cites Oregon QCEW; underlying city extract not provided and size unit needs confirmation
c36	Prosper describes small as 1-20 employees on page 17 but 1-19 elsewhere in the same report	Portland city	2024	prosper-insights	PDF pages 17 and 88 (printed pages 11 and 82)	reported	Threshold wording inconsistent; QCEW standard size tabulation is establishment based