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Quarterly Workforce Indicators Endpoint Restored
The Quarterly Workforce Indicators' endpoints have been restored.
Quarterly Workforce Indicators Endpoint is Down
The Quarterly Workforce Indicators' endpoints are currently unavailable. We are working on a fix, but we do not know when it will be returned to production.
2018 API Changes
Available APIs
Annual Business Survey (ABS) APIs
The Census Bureau’s Application Programming Interface (API) allows users to create custom queries. Users can embed these statistics into web or mobile apps.
Annual Public Sector Statistics (1942 to present)
These statistics provide the most comprehensive and precise measure of U.S. state and local governments’ economic activity.
Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) Time Series (1978 – 2018)
The Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) dataset is now available as a Census Bureau API.
News
Mom and Pop Business Owners Day: March 29, 2021
The 2017 Statistics of U.S. Businesses counted employment of 128.6M, of which 68.0M worked for enterprises 500+ in size and 60.5M for those under 500.
Census Bureau Releases Version 3.3 of Census Business Builder
CBB is a suite of services that provide selected demographic and economic data tailored to specific types of users in a simple to access and use format.
Census Bureau Updates Census Business Builder to Version 3.2
CBB is a suite of services that provide selected demographic and economic data tailored to specific types of users in a simple to access and use format.