Small Business Distribution across US cities. Need Data for 2001 or
later definetly quoted from a US govt/federal research report with a
link to the quote.

The Small Business Administration has downloadable files on the
distribution of small businesses in Metropolitan Statistical Areas
(MSAs), which is government-speak for cities.  At:

http://www.sba.gov/advo/stats/data.html#st

you can download files for:

State and MSA data (Microsoft Excel file for the PDF files)
Classified by employment size of firm 

State totals, 1990, 1995, 1998, 1999 (PDF file) 
Download 1998 - 1999 state industry group data (about 1 meg.) 
MSA totals, 1995, 1998, 1999 (PDF file) 
Download 1998 - 1999 MSA major industry group data (about 1 meg.)

Dynamic data, births, deaths, growth and decline 
State totals, 1998-1999 (PDF file) 
Download state major industry group data, 1990-1999 one year changes
and 1990-1995 (about 1 meg., see the bottom of the file for column
abbreviations)

I had been to the site but unfortunately the data on that site is not
organized and it would not directly meet my requirements. It is also
not in a format that can be easily processed.

thanks anyways.
Akbabu