{
    "statement": "of US businesses with 5 to 9 employees used AI in the last two weeks, the lowest rate of any size band",
    "value_display": "22.6%",
    "value_numeric": 22.6,
    "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\": \"5-9 Employees\", \"Estimate\": 22.6, \"facet\": \"1-19 Employees\", \"Date\": \"2026-10-18\"",
    "verification_note": "Read in Census BTOS AI_empsize.json, wave 5-18 Oct 2026.",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "margin_of_error": null,
    "dont_know": null,
    "data_table": null,
    "revisions": [
        {
            "happened_on": "2025-11-30",
            "kind": "new_data",
            "value_display": "15.5%",
            "note": "Wave ending 30 Nov 2025 (wave end date)."
        }
    ],
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/small-business/small-business-ai-use-5-9-staff",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/small-business/small-business-ai-use-5-9-staff.csv"
}