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September 2005

Nonprofit organizations: new insights from QCEW data

Lester M. Salamon, S. Wojciech Sokolowski

The BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages data set has enormous promise as a source of timely information on the private, nonprofit sector; new discoveries challenge a variety of conventional theories about these organizations.

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