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Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS)

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Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS)

BDS provides annual measures of business dynamics (such as job creation and destruction, establishment births and deaths, and firm startups and shutdowns) for the economy overall and aggregated by establishment and firm characteristics.

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BDS Methodology
The BDS data measure the net change in employment at the establishment level.
Experimental Business Dynamics Statistics (EXP-BDS)
Experimental statistics created from new data linkages in the LBD/BDS data infrastructure.
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Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) Explorer
Analyze the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) data through interactive charts, maps and tables.

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Business Dynamics Statistics of Single Unit Firms (BDS-SU) Released
December 2022
This experimental data product provides quarterly measures of business dynamics for single-unit firms.
BDS of U.S. High Tech Industries (BDS-HT) Released
November 2022
This experimental data product provides annual measures of business dynamics for STEM occupations.
BDS of U.S. Goods Traders (BDS-Goods Traders) Updated
November 2022
This experimental data product provides annual measures of business dynamics for goods-trading of importers and exporters.

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Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) Explorer
Analyze the Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) data through interactive charts, maps and tables.
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Business Dynamics Statistics Datasets
The 2020 BDS datasets are available in downloadable CSV format.
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2020 Business Dynamics Statistics Data Tables
BDS data tables are available on data.census.gov for all years, 1978 to 2020.

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