{
    "statement": "of US businesses with 1 to 4 employees used AI in any business function in the two weeks before the survey",
    "value_display": "24.3%",
    "value_numeric": 24.3,
    "unit": "%",
    "data_label": "Oct 2026",
    "data_period_end": "2026-10-18",
    "region": "USA",
    "size": "small",
    "source": {
        "name": "Business Trends and Outlook Survey",
        "publisher": "US Census Bureau",
        "type": "official",
        "url": "https://www.census.gov/"
    },
    "source_url": "https://www.census.gov/hfp/btos/AI_empsize.json",
    "source_quote": "\"xmltag\": \"Current AI Use (Last Two Weeks)\", \"EMPSIZE\": \"1-4 Employees\", \"Estimate\": 24.3, \"facet\": \"1-19 Employees\", \"Date\": \"2026-10-18\"",
    "verification_note": "Read in the Census BTOS file AI_empsize.json (the file behind census.gov/hfp/btos/data), downloaded 2026-10-23 and identical to the research copy; wave 5-18 Oct 2026. The AI_empsize.json file itself carries no standard error; the Employment Size Class.xlsx file on the same census.gov page publishes one for this band (0.32 points, wave 202621).",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "margin_of_error": null,
    "dont_know": null,
    "data_table": {
        "columns": [
            "Firm size",
            "Share using AI",
            "Wave ending"
        ],
        "rows": [
            [
                "1 to 4 employees",
                "24.3%",
                "18 Oct 2026"
            ],
            [
                "5 to 9",
                "22.6%",
                "18 Oct 2026"
            ],
            [
                "10 to 19",
                "24.6%",
                "18 Oct 2026"
            ],
            [
                "20 to 49",
                "26.0%",
                "18 Oct 2026"
            ],
            [
                "50 to 99",
                "29.0%",
                "18 Oct 2026"
            ],
            [
                "100 to 249",
                "35.3%",
                "18 Oct 2026"
            ],
            [
                "250 or more",
                "43.6%",
                "18 Oct 2026"
            ]
        ]
    },
    "revisions": [
        {
            "happened_on": "2026-10-22",
            "kind": "new_data",
            "value_display": "24.3%",
            "note": "Wave 5-18 Oct 2026."
        },
        {
            "happened_on": "2026-10-19",
            "kind": "method_change",
            "value_display": null,
            "note": "From the wave starting 19 Oct 2026 the question asks about \"Super Intelligence or SI (formerly referred to as Artificial Intelligence or AI)\" after Executive Order 14434. Later waves are a new method and must not be charted as one trend with this one."
        },
        {
            "happened_on": "2026-05-03",
            "kind": "new_data",
            "value_display": "19.0%",
            "note": "Wave ending 3 May 2026 (wave end date)."
        },
        {
            "happened_on": "2025-11-30",
            "kind": "new_data",
            "value_display": "17.0%",
            "note": "Wave ending 30 Nov 2025 (date is the wave end, not the release day), the first wave with the current wording (\"in any of its business functions\")."
        }
    ],
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/small-business/small-business-ai-use-1-4-staff",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/small-business/small-business-ai-use-1-4-staff.csv"
}