Download experimental Business Dynamics Statistics of Single Unit Firms with Revenue (BDS-SU-REV) data tables below. Variable definitions can be found in the BDS-SU-REV Definitions document.

Data Sources

The BDS-SU-REV is a product of the U.S. Census Bureau and was developed by the Center for Economic Studies (CES). The published statistics were tabulated from the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD), an internal Census data product that tracks firms over time, beginning in 1976. Quarterly employment, payroll and revenue data are sourced from IRS tax records integrated into the Census Bureau’s business data.

The Census Bureau has reviewed this data product to ensure appropriate access, use, and disclosure avoidance protection of the confidential source data used to produce this product (Data Management System (DMS) number: 7508369, Disclosure Review Board (DRB) approval number: CBDRB-FY24-0446).

There are two versions of each BDS-SU-REV table, one with nominal revenue and payroll and one with inflation-adjusted revenue and payroll. For v2022, we use the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) GDP implicit price deflator, with a base year of 2017. Prior versions of this product used a base year of 2012, so note that all measures of real revenue and payroll will automatically increase in v2022 relative to prior versions.