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Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) Time Series (1978 – 2022)

September 26, 2024

The Business Dynamics Statistics (BDS) dataset is now available as a Census Bureau API.
Quarterly Workforce Indicators (QWI) (Time Series: 1990 - present)

September 12, 2016

The QWI are a set of 32 economic indicators including employment, job creation/destruction, wages, hires, and other measures of employment flows.

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